Understanding Levels of Care Facilities in Wyoming
Level I Assisted Living
– Provides limited nursing care, personal care, and boarding home care but no Habilitative Care.
– Assisted Living Prices +
– ALF Core Services
– Does not require a secured unit.
Level II Assisted Living
– Provides limited nursing care, personal care, and boarding home care but not Habilitative Care.
– Memory Care and/or Nursing Home Prices +
– ALF Core Services
– Requires a secured unit with special staffing and staff education in dementia.
– Additional activities, services, and slightly higher level of core services.
Skilled Nursing / Nursing Home
– Provides extensive 24-hour nursing care
– Nursing Home Prices +
– May be used as a transitional point from hospital to a lower level of care.
– Provides total care for all activities of daily living around the clock.
Assisted Living Core Services
Assistance with transportation, assistance with obtaining medical, dental, and optometric care, and social services; assistance in adjusting to group living activities; provision of appropriate recreational activities in and out of the facility.
Partial assistance with personal care; limited assistance with dressing; minor sterile dressing changes; Stage I skin care; infrequent assistance with mobility; cuing guidance with activities of daily living for visually impaired persons, or the intermittently confused and/or agitated residents requiring occasional reminders of time, place, and person.
Limited care to residents who can independently manage catheter or ostomy care and incontinence; and 24 hour monitoring of each resident.
For more information about levels of care, please visit: Wyoming Department of Health
