DHS 88.04(5)(c)(c) The licensing agency may require the licensee and service providers to obtain training in amounts that exceed the minimum required under par. (b) to ensure that resident health, safety and welfare are protected and promoted. DHS 88.04(5)(d)(d) The licensing agency may approve alternatives to the training requirements in pars. (a) and (b) at a licensee’s request and if the licensing agency determines that any of the following has occurred: DHS 88.04(5)(d)1.1. The person has successfully completed substantially similar or related training. DHS 88.04(5)(d)2.2. The person has successfully completed course work or an academic degree program related to the care, maintenance and treatment of the type of individuals served by the adult family home as identified in the home’s program statement or other persons in need of care, maintenance or treatment. DHS 88.04(5)(d)3.3. The person has acquired substantial and up-to-date knowledge concerning care, maintenance, treatment and health, safety, welfare and rights appropriate to a resident being served through prior experience in licensed or certified programs which are substantially similar to adult family homes. DHS 88.04 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, January, 1996, No. 482, eff. 2-1-96; am. (4), Register, August, 2000, No. 536, eff. 9-1-00; corrections in (2) (e) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register October 2007 No. 622; correction in (2) (g) 2. made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register November 2008 No. 635. DHS 88.05(1)(1) Location and access to the community. An adult family home shall be located so that residents can easily get to community activities and supportive services by walking or by means of convenient private or public transportation, or the licensee shall ensure that residents receive the assistance necessary to enable them to get to those activities and services. The home shall be located in a residential area which is typical of residential areas in that community. DHS 88.05(2)(2) Resident access to the home and within the home. An adult family home shall be physically accessible to all residents of the home. Residents shall be able to easily enter and exit the home, to easily get to their sleeping rooms, a bathroom, the kitchen and all common living areas in the home, and to easily move about in the home. Additional accessibility features shall be provided as follows, if needed to accommodate the physical limitations of a resident or if specified in the resident’s individual service plan: DHS 88.05(2)(a)(a) If a resident is not able to walk at all or able to walk only with difficulty, or only with the assistance of crutches, a cane, or walker or is unable to easily negotiate stairs without assistance: DHS 88.05(2)(a)1.1. The exits from the home shall be ramped to grade with a hard surfaced pathway with handrails. DHS 88.05(2)(a)2.2. All entrance and exit doors and interior doors serving all common living areas and all bathrooms and bedrooms used by a resident not able to walk at all shall have a clear opening of at least 32 inches. DHS 88.05(2)(a)3.3. Toilet and bathing facilities used by a resident not able to walk at all shall have enough space to provide a turning radius for the resident’s wheelchair and provide accessibility appropriate to the resident’s needs. DHS 88.05(2)(b)(b) Grab bars shall be provided for toilet and bath fixtures in those bathing and toilet facilities used by residents not able to walk at all or only with difficulty, or by other residents with physical limitations that make transferring difficult. DHS 88.05(2)(c)(c) If any resident has either manual strength or dexterity limitations, the home shall have levered handles on all doors, bathroom water fixtures and other devices normally used by that resident if these can be replaced and if replacement is readily achievable. DHS 88.05(2)(d)(d) Any resident who is unable to easily negotiate stairs without assistance shall have his or her bedroom, toilet and bathing facilities and all common living areas on the first floor. DHS 88.05(3)(a)(a) An adult family home shall be safe, clean and well-maintained and shall provide a homelike environment. DHS 88.05(3)(b)(b) The home shall be free from hazards and kept uncluttered and free of dangerous substances, insects and rodents. DHS 88.05(3)(c)(c) The home shall have heating, hot and cold water and electrical, plumbing, sewerage and lighting systems that meet local building codes. DHS 88.05(3)(d)(d) Where a public water supply is not available water samples shall be taken from the well and tested at the state laboratory of hygiene or other laboratory approved under ch. NR 149 at least annually. DHS 88.05(3)(e)1.1. The home shall have a heating system capable of maintaining a temperature of 74°F. The temperature in habitable rooms shall not be permitted to fall below 70° F. during periods of occupancy, except that the home may reduce temperatures during sleeping hours to 67° F. Higher or lower temperatures, for certain residents, including but not limited to residents of advanced age and residents with physical disabilities, shall be provided to the extent possible when requested by a resident. DHS 88.05(3)(e)2.2. The heating system shall be inspected as follows, with written documentation of the inspections maintained in the home: DHS 88.05(3)(e)2.a.a. An oil furnace shall be inspected and serviced every 2 years by a heating contractor. DHS 88.05(3)(e)2.b.b. A gas furnace shall be inspected and serviced every 3 years by a heating contractor or local utility company. DHS 88.05(3)(e)2.d.d. Any woodburning stove or fireplace in an adult family home shall have a flue separate from the one used by a gas or oil fired furnace or boiler. The flue shall be cleaned as often as necessary but not less than 2 times during each heating season, except that when a woodburning stove or fireplace is used for no more than 4 days each month of the heating season, the flue shall be cleaned at least once during each heating season. DHS 88.05(3)(f)(f) The home shall have functioning support services, including refuse removal and access to laundry facilities.