Maintaining your Toolkit

Laws and Rules change every year.

To ensure your Quality & Compliance Kit has the latest regulatory information, mark your calendar year to remind yourself to go to the appropriate web site provided below and download that year's current laws.

Florida Statutes (Chapter 400; Chapter 456)

	www.flsenate.gov/Statutes
Florida Administrative Code (Chapters 59A-4; 64B-9; 64B-10)
	fac.dos.state.fl.us/code.html
Code of Federal Regulations, Survey Procedures
	The Long Term Care Survey (look for most recent year available), American Health Care Association, www.ahca.org; Bookstore
Aspen State Regulation Set: N2.02 (or latest version) Nursing Home Licensure - NTags
	Check FHCA's Members Only Website at www.fhca.org; select Regulatory, then Agency for Health Care Administration
Life Safety - KTags
	See Form # CMS-2786S located at www.cms.hhs.gov/forms
Florida Building Code, www.floridabuilding.org/
Minimum Data Set (MDS) - select Version 2.0 or later - for Nursing Home Resident Assessment and Care Screening, Basic Assessment Tracking Form
	www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/mds20; Select MDS All Forms
Risk Management Guide, FHCA, 2002
	Check FHCA's Members Only Website at www.fhca.org; select Quality Improvement, then Risk Management
Adverse Incident Reporting Forms (1 Day and 15 Day; Federal 5 Day)
	Agency for Health Care Administration at www.fdhc.state.fl.us; select Health Facilities & Providers; then select Long Term Care Services, Long Term Care Unit

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