Kentucky survey readiness

What Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Department for Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) certifies; Office of Inspector General licenses other classes can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

What Kentucky requires

Assisted-Living Community — certified, not licensed — Assisted living / residential care
  • Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: Fire and evacuation drills in residential care / assisted living facilities must include COMPLETE EVACUATION of the premises, under the Kentucky Fire Code. The licensing regulations do not set their own separate count — the fire code governs the cadence. KRS 194A.700–729; 910 KAR 1:240 (certification of assisted-living communities); 902 KAR 20:480 (assisted living communities)
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Department for Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) certifies; Office of Inspector General licenses other classes · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Kentucky fire drill log produces the drill record at the frequency this state sets, the emergency plan builder writes the plan itself from the same research, and the compliance calendar puts the life-safety tests on dates. Anything you record against the building shows up on the checklist already ticked.

Everything else we’ve researched about Kentucky

Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.

A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Department for Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) certifies; Office of Inspector General licenses other classes and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.

Questions people ask

What does a Kentucky surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?
Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period (KRS 194A.700–729; 910 KAR 1:240 (certification of assisted-living communities); 902 KAR 20:480 (assisted living communities)). Source: Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services — Department for Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) certifies; Office of Inspector General licenses other classes. Last checked July 2026.