AASD and DSD eList announcement

Date: Jan. 28, 2026
To: Lead agencies and other interested parties
From: DHS Aging and Adult Services and Disability Services divisions
Purpose: To announce a temporary licensing moratorium for adult day care centers
Effective: Feb. 1, 2026
Contact: licensemoratorium.dhs@state.mn.us

Adult day care center temporary licensing moratorium

Effective Feb. 1, 2026, DHS will implement a temporary licensing moratorium for adult day care centers. We expect this moratorium to end Jan. 31, 2028.

DHS actions

Under this moratorium, DHS will:

· No longer accept new applications for adult day care licenses.

· Cancel all submitted applications currently in the queue, unless they have a lead agency exception.

· Follow a process to grant exception requests from lead agencies. For more information, refer to the exceptions to the licensing moratorium section of DHS – Licensing help for adult day providers.

Lead agency actions

By Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, lead agencies must email their adult day care licensing moratorium liaison’s name and contact information to DHS at licensemoratorium.dhs@state.mn.us. The adult day care licensing moratorium liaison can be the same as the 245D moratorium liaison or another person.

Information sessions

On Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, DHS will hold three identical online information sessions for lead agencies. Registration is not required.

The information sessions will cover the adult day care center licensing moratorium exception process. Most of the information is the same information we presented about the 245D licensing moratorium exception process.

Use the following information to attend an information session:

Information session 1

· Time: 8 to 9 a.m.

· How to join: To join the first information session, refer to Webex webinar – Adult day care moratorium exception process information session 1.

Information session 2

· Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

· How to join: To join the second information session, refer to WebEx webinar – Adult day care moratorium exception process information session 2.

Information session 3

· Time: 2 to 3 p.m.

· How to join: To join the third information session, refer to WebEx webinar – Adult day care moratorium exception process information session 3.

More information

For more information, refer to DHS – Licensing help for adult day providers.

Previous eList announcements

AASD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE | DSD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE | DSD STAKEHOLDER ARCHIVE