About Us

Services

Long Term Care
> Facilities
> Services
> Complaints

HOW TO READ ADULT FOSTER CARE FACILITY LISTS
Produced By
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF HEALTH SYSTEMS
(Report Number LO-630)

Comprehensive lists of licensed Adult Foster Care homes and facilities by counties are available from the Michigan Department Bureau of Health Systems (MDBHS) at the address below:

Michigan Department Bureau of Health Systems
Bureau of Regulatory Services
Adult Foster Care Licensing
PO Box 30650
7109 West Saginaw Street, 2nd Floor
Lansing, MI 48909

Or you can call 517-373-8580 for one (1) county listing of facilities. To obtain listings for multiple counties,telephone 517-373-3598, and request these lists under the Freedom of Information. Additional information about Adult Foster Care homes is available from your local Long Term Care Ombudsman office.

This list is alphabetical by the owner’s name and shows the adult foster care facility by name, address and telephone number. If a home is not on the list, it probably does not have a license. However, some homes whose license has expired or are having action taken against them by the state may not be on the list. If you think the home has a license and it is not on the list, call the above telephone number for verification.

The section at the top of the page listing the Adult Foster Care homes and facilities will indicate the date the data is current as well as the date of the report and the county covered by it.

The date the report is prepared by MDBHS and the county the report covers are in the upper left corner of the report. Each county has a number for state documents; the standard numerical designation of the 83 counties is the counties in alphabetical order (for example: 1 = Alcona County, 47 = Livingston County, 83 = Wexford County).

The upper right corner is the page in full state report and a LAST BATCH number which is four digits. The first two are the year of the report.

Across the top are the titles of the sections which are listed and described below:

• OPERATOR/PARENT ORGANIZATION INFORMATION: The list is alphabetical by the owner of operator’s name. The individual or corporation name, address and telephone number are listed .

If there are several homes in the same county owned by the same operator, the individual homes will be listed separately and the owner name repeated. You have to look at other counties to see if the same operator has homes in other parts of the state.

• FACILITY/HOME INFORMATION: The name of the home along with its address and telephone number is listed. All AFC’s are "facilities" except "family homes" which are owner occupied AFCs with 6 or fewer people.

• LICENSE INFORMATION: Reading the column down is as follows;

begins with two letters which refer to the size of the home.
FA: Family home (6 or under, owner occupied)
SG: Small group (1-6 or 7-12 persons with staff rather than the owner living in the home)
LG: Large group (13-20 persons)
CL: Congregate facility (20 persons and above) There are only 23 congregate facilities in the state and the rules do not allow any new facilities to be built.
CS: County infirmary – These are run by the County Department Bureau of Health Services in only four counties in Michigan

The next two digits are the county designation by number and will be the same as the county number at the top of the page.

The next two digits are always "00".

The last three digits are "sequencing numbers" used internally by MDBHS.

Use this license number if you wish to get copies of the MDBHS licensing report or complaint investigations for a particular facility. Call MDBHS at the above number to get the reports.

CAPA: the capacity, number of beds the home is licensed to operate; the home can have no more than this number of residents
TY LIC: the type of license (regular – temporary – provisional).
EFF DT: the effective date or beginning date for the license.
EXP DT: the expiration date for the license. MDBHS is supposed to inspect the home before the expiration date.

• Regular licenses are for two years
• Temporary licenses are for six months with a limit of three (3) renewals
• Provisional licenses are for six months; they nay be given to new operators or those against whom MDBHS has take adverse action. A provisional license is renewable only twice after the first six months when there are physical plant problems and once when there are care problems.

MPS ID: is the Model Payment System (Medicaid provider number) for homes which have a contract to provide personal care services.

FAC TYPE: repeats the facility size listed in the License Number of the family home. (small group, large group, or congregate facility)

CONS. NO: a five digit number in two groups, it refers to the licensing consultant who is responsible for licensing the facility. You can find out the name and telephone number of that consultant by calling MDBHS at the AF licensing office in Lansing.

PROGRAM: always blank. The AFC licensing law allows for "programs" to serve special groups of people (elderly, mentally ill, etc.) to be certified. That part of the law has never been implemented.

The three designations indicate if the home offers a particular kind of service to the resident through a contract agency.

These designations can help you figure out the home’s specialization since there is no program certification. Please note that when the contract agency is a mental health agency, the resident of the facility is protected by the recipient rights in the Mental Health Code as well as the rights guaranteed in the AFC licensing law.

AIS/MR: Alternative Institutional Services for the mentally retarded. The care given is similar to nursing home care.

CLF/DD: Community Living facility for the Developmentally Disabled. The home will probably have a contract with the Community Mental Board.

MDBHS regularly prepares several other reports on AFCs. They are:

FO 130: lists AFCs alphabetically by the name of the home with its address
BRS 005: lists AFC applications withdrawn and reason

BRS 006: lists AFC licenses "closed" and the reason:

These licenses are closed, not renewed or taken away in the previous month.

These reports are available by writing to the Michigan Department Bureau of Health Systems at the address on page one.

Rev: 03/04

Southeastern Michigan Area Main Office ~ 800.833.9548	Lansing/Jackson Area 517.347.7398	Saginaw/Flint Area 800.284.0046
Traverse City Area 231.947.2504	Grand Rapids Area 800.782.2918