Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47)

What this rule requires your agency to do

• 1The facility must maintain the staffing ratio of one (1) resident attendant per fifteen (15) or fewer residents from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and one (1) resident attendant per twenty-five (25) or fewer residents from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. (with written, posted on-call personnel), plus a licensed nurse on the premises eight (8) hours a day not counted in the attendant ratio (Rule 47.11.4).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))
• 2There must be a full-time employee designated as operator who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age, is a high school graduate or has passed the GED, is not a resident of the facility, and has verification that they are not listed on the Mississippi Nurse Aide Abuse Registry; when the operator is absent, a comparably qualified representative must be onsite (Rule 47.11.1).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))
• 3An applicant/employee with a felony conviction, guilty plea, or nolo contendere plea (not reversed/pardoned) to any of the listed disqualifying crimes is not eligible to be employed at the licensed facility; evidence of the disciplinary-status verification and fingerprint submission must be on file before the new employee's first date of employment (Rule 47.11.5.3).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))
• 4Personnel must receive training on a quarterly basis on topics related to the population served, documented by a narrative of the content and signatures of those attending (Rule 47.11.4).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))
• 5When a criminal history record check reveals no disqualifying event, the covered entity must within two (2) weeks provide the applicant a notarized letter signed by the CEO or authorized designee confirming suitability for employment, which is valid for two (2) years (Rule 47.11.5.9).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))
• 6For individuals contracted through a third party who provide direct patient care, the covered entity must require proof of a criminal history record check (Rule 47.11.5.10).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))
• 7The covered entity must require a disciplinary check with the professional licensing agency (if any) and a criminal history record check on every new employee providing direct patient care or services hired on or after July 1, 2003, and no such employee may provide direct patient care until the criminal history record check reveals no disqualifying record or a waiver is granted (Rule 47.11.5.1–2).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))
• 8All direct care employees must be a minimum of eighteen (18) years of age and have verification that they are not listed on the Mississippi Nurse Aide Abuse Registry (Rule 47.11.4).(Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes – Assisted Living (Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1, Chapter 47))