State of Wyoming– Department of Health Ph: 307-777-7123
Aging Division Fax: 307-777-7127
Healthcare Licensing and Surveys Web: https://www.health.wyo.gov/aging/hls
Hathaway Bldg, Suite 510 Email: tammy.schmitt@wyo.gov
2300 Capitol Avenue
Cheyenne WY 82002
ADULT FOSTER CARE HOME
LICENSE APPLICATION
Fees: Initials, Change in Ownership, Annual Renewal
(Anything marked in 1a thru 1c below)
$100 Changes
(Anything marked in 1d thru 1e below)
$50
Make Payment to: Treasurer, State of Wyoming
FOR HLS USE ONLY
Fee Paid Old # Appl Approved
Check # New #
If we have questions/concerns regarding the information provided on this application, whom should we contact?
Facility Name: – FORMTEXT
Person’s Name: EMail:
This is a fillable form. You must tab through the document to advance.
(Licenses will NOT be sent in hard copy but sent electronically via email to the address in #9 below.)
GENERAL APPLICATION INFORMATION
Type of Application: (check one)
Initial Application
Change in Ownership Effective Date of Change:
Annual Renewal
Changes – for any of the changes marked below, complete the remainder of the application with all the new information. The entire application still needs to be completed.
Change in Address of Main Physical Location Effective Date of Change:
Old Address:
Change in Facility Name Effective Date of Change:
Old Name:
Facility Name: (This is how it will appear on your license.)
Physical Facility Full Address: (Main location. Include city, st., zip.)
Mailing Address: (If different than #5. Include city, st., zip)
FACILITY NAME:
County: – FORMTEXT
Fiscal Year End Date: (Cost Reporting End Date)
Phone:
Fax:
9. Email:
(This will be used for all official correspondences, survey results, etc. Only one address per provider.)
PROVIDER DETAILS
Federal Employer Tax ID number (EIN):
Does the Adult Foster Care Home have in place a documented quality management function to evaluate and improve patient/resident/client care and services? Yes No
Number of beds to be licensed:
PERSONNEL
Name of Manager/Director:
Name of Supervising Nurse:
RN License Number:
LOCATIONS/BUILDINGS
You must attach a current floor plan that includes room numbers, location of each licensed bed and all other areas clearly identified.
Main Building Location
Property Ownership: Own Rent Lease
Physical Address: (Include city.) – FORMTEXT
Services at this location:
Date services began at this location:
Is there a current construction or remodel project going on at this location? Yes No
If yes, list HLS project numbers:
FACILITY NAME:
OWNER/OPERATOR
Ownership type: (check one)
(This is the owner of the Adult Foster Care Home business – not the owner of property/physical structure.)
Sole Proprietor/Individual
Partnership
Profit Corporation
Nonprofit Corporation
Limited Liability Company
Governmental: City County Hospital District State
Other: – FORMTEXT
Ownership Name:
Mailing Address:
Phone:
Contact person:
Contact person’s email:
23. List all officers in the ownership and titles below: or List attached.
(This is not the CEO, CFO, etc., but the Pres, VP, etc. or Board Members)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Has the owner ever had a license to operate a healthcare facility or agency providing healthcare services in this or any other state denied, suspended, revoked or otherwise terminated for cause? Yes No
If yes, explain:
Is the Adult Foster Care Home operated or managed by a business entity other than the owner listed in #18 above?
Yes No
If yes, Operating Entity Name:
Mailing Address:
Phone: – FORMTEXT
Contact Person’s Name:
Contact Person’s Email:
FACILITY NAME:
Has the operator ever had a license to operate a healthcare facility or agency providing healthcare services in this or any other state denied, suspended, revoked or otherwise terminated for cause? Yes No
If yes, explain:
Did you read and understand the healthcare facility licensure requirements (W.S. 35-2-901 and 902 et seq) outlined at the end of this application? Yes No
FACILITY NAME:
SIGNATURE
Wyoming Statutes requires signature by two (2) officers of the organization, or a signature of all managing agents. If signed by managing agents, copies must be attached of company documents indicating the individuals signing are managing agents for the company.
I have read the contents of this application. My signature legally binds the facility’s agreement to abide by the rules promulgated by the Stat of Wyoming for this category of healthcare facility and do hereby state the information provided on this application is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
The facility further understands the facility is responsible for admitting and retaining only those persons who qualify for this category of healthcare facility as defined in the applicable rule and facility policies and procedures. The facility agrees to allow authorized representative of the Wyoming Department of Health, upon presentation of proper identification, to request and/or enter the facility at any time without a warrant, any facility records and documentation as necessary to ascertain compliance with State licensing laws and rules promulgated by the Wyoming Department of Health.
Application must have original signatures of two officers as listed in the ownership section above. In most cases, a CEO, CFO, Administrator, or Director signature will not be accepted.
Signature #1_____________________________________________________________________________________
Printed Name:
Title:
Date:
Signature #2_____________________________________________________________________________________
Printed Name:
Title:
Date:
LICENSE STATUTE
TITLE 35 / PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 2 / HOSPITALS, HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AND HEALTH SERVICES
ARTICLE 9 / LICENSING AND OPERATIONS
35 2 901. Definitions; applicability of provisions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Acute care" means short term care provided in a hospital;
(ii) "Ambulatory surgical center" means a facility which provides surgical treatment to patients not requiring hospitalization and is not part of a hospital or offices of private physicians, dentists or podiatrists;
(iii) "Birthing center" means a facility which operates for the primary purpose of performing deliveries and is not part of a hospital;
(iv) "Boarding home" means a dwelling or rooming house operated by any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating a home for the purpose of letting rooms for rent and providing meals and personal daily living care, but not habilitative or nursing care, for persons not related to the owner. Boarding home does not include a lodging facility or an apartment in which only room and board is provided;
(v) "Construction area" means thirty (30) highway miles, from any existing nursing care facility or hospital with swing beds to the site of the proposed nursing care facility, as determined by utilizing the state map prepared by the Wyoming department of transportation;
(vi) "Department" means the department of health;
(vii) "Division" means the designated division within the department of health;
(viii) "Freestanding diagnostic testing center" means a mobile or permanent facility which provides diagnostic testing but not treatment and is not part of the private offices of health care professionals operating within the scope of their licenses;
(ix) Repealed By Laws 1999, ch. 119, § 2.
(x) "Health care facility" means any ambulatory surgical center, assisted living facility, adult day care facility, adult foster care home, alternative eldercare home, birthing center, boarding home, freestanding diagnostic testing center, home health agency, hospice, hospital, freestanding emergency center, intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disability, medical assistance facility, nursing care facility, rehabilitation facility and renal dialysis center;
(xi) "Home health agency" means an agency primarily engaged in arranging and directly providing nursing or other health care services to persons at their residence;
(xii) "Hospice" means a program of care for the terminally ill and their families given in a home or health facility which provides medical, palliative, psychological, spiritual and supportive care and treatment. Hospice care may include short term respite care for non hospice patients, if the primary activity of the hospice is the provision of hospice services to terminally ill individuals and provided that the respite care is paid by the patient or by a private third party payor and not through any governmental third party payment program;
(xiii) "Hospital" means an institution or a unit in an institution providing one (1) or more of the following to patients by or under the supervision of an organized medical staff:
(A) Diagnostic and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment and care of injured, disabled or sick persons;
(B) Rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled or sick persons;
(C) Acute care;
(D) Psychiatric care;
(E) Swing beds.
(xiv) "Intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disability" means a facility which provides on a regular basis health related care and training to persons with intellectual disabilities or persons with related conditions, who do not require the degree of care and treatment of a hospital or nursing facility and services above the need of a boarding home. The term also means "intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded" or "ICFMR" or "ICFs/MR" as those terms are used in federal law and in other laws, rules and regulations;
(xv) "Medical assistance facility" means a facility which provides inpatient care to ill or injured persons prior to their transportation to a hospital or provides inpatient care to persons needing that care for a period of no longer than sixty (60) hours and is located more than thirty (30) miles from the nearest Wyoming hospital;
(xvi) "Nursing care facility" means a facility providing assisted living care, nursing care, rehabilitative and other related services;
(xvii) "Physician" means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy licensed to practice medicine or surgery under state law;
(xviii) "Psychiatric care" means the in patient care and treatment of persons with a mental diagnosis;
(xix) "Rehabilitation facility" means an outpatient or residential facility which is operated for the primary purpose of assisting the rehabilitation of disabled persons including persons with acquired brain injury by providing comprehensive medical evaluations and services, psychological and social services, or vocational evaluations and training or any combination of these services and in which the major portion of the services is furnished within the facility;
(xx) "Renal dialysis center" means a freestanding facility for treatment of kidney diseases;
(xxi) "Swing bed" means a special designation for a hospital which has a program to provide specialized in patient long term care. Any medical surgical bed in a hospital can be designated as a swing bed;
(xxii) "Assisted living facility" means a dwelling operated by any person, firm or corporation engaged in providing limited nursing care, personal care and boarding home care, but not habilitative care, for persons not related to the owner of the facility. This definition may include facilities with secured units and facilities dedicated to the special care and services for people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia conditions;
(xxiii) "Adult day care facility" means any facility not otherwise certified by the department of health, engaged in the business of providing activities of daily living support and supervision services programming based on a social model, to four (4) or more persons eighteen (18) years of age or older with physical or mental disabilities;
(xxiv) "Adult foster care home" means a home where care is provided for up to five (5) adults who are not related to the provider by blood, marriage or adoption, except in special circumstances, in need of long term care in a home like atmosphere. "Adult foster care home" does not include any residential facility otherwise licensed or funded by the state of Wyoming. The homes shall be regulated in accordance with this act and with the Wyoming Long Term Care Choices Act, which shall govern in case of conflict with this act;
(xxv) "Alternative eldercare home" means a facility as defined in W.S. 42 6 102(a)(iii). The homes shall be regulated in accordance with this act and with the Wyoming Long Term Care Choices Act which shall govern in case of conflict with this act;
(xxvi) "Freestanding emergency center" means a facility that provides services twenty four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week for life threatening emergency medical conditions and is at a location separate from a hospital;
(xxvii) "This act" means W.S. 35 2 901 through 35 2 913.
(b) This act does not apply to hospitals or any other facility or agency operated by the federal government which would otherwise be required to be licensed under this act or to any person providing health care services within the scope of his license in a private office.
35 2 902. License required.
No person shall establish any health care facility in this state without a valid license issued pursuant to this act.
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