Secured memory care in the Knoxville area

Which Knoxville-area facilities report secured memory care beds?

44 licensed buildings in the seven counties report secured or Alzheimer's beds to the Health Facilities Commission: 37 assisted-care living facilities with 1133 secured beds, 8 of them secured throughout, and 7 nursing homes with 195 secured or Alzheimer's beds.

Why rely on the state's bed report to find memory care near Knoxville?

Tennessee issues no memory care license, so the secured-bed figure each licensed building reports to the state is the only official sign that a locked unit exists; the words “memory care” on a website prove nothing by themselves.

Each secured unit in an ACLF must keep an awake attendant on the unit at all hours, evaluate residents with a physician, a registered nurse and a family member before admission, and review every placement quarterly. See the secured-unit rules. Several Knoxville-area buildings are licensed as stand-alone memory care, with every bed secured; others run a secured wing inside a larger community.