The Agency proposes to revise rules related to hospital standards and licensure.

AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
Health Facility and Agency Licensing

RULE NO.: RULE TITLE:
59A-3.065: Definitions
59A-3.066: Licensure Procedure
59A-3.078: Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
59A-3.110: Services
59A-3.250: Surveillance, Prevention, and Control of Infection
59A-3.252: Classification of Hospitals
59A-3.253: Investigations and License, Life Safety and Validation Inspections
59A-3.254: Patient Rights and Care
59A-3.255: Emergency Care
59A-3.270: Health Information Management
59A-3.273: Management and Administration
59A-3.274: Anatomical Gifts, Routine Inquiry
59A-3.279: Itemized Patient Bill
59A-3.280: Child Abuse and Neglect
59A-3.281: Spontaneous Fetal Demise
59A-3.300: Licensure Procedure
59A-3.301: Goals, Policies and Procedures
59A-3.302: Personnel
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Agency proposes to revise rules related to hospital standards and licensure.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: These revisions will modify existing rules to: conform to current statutory requirements; correct rule and statutory references; delete references to forms that have been updated; update rule references that are now found in the Florida Building Code; rename and renumber rules relating to Residential Treatment Facilities for Children and Adolescents; and delete duplicative requirements.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 381.0031, 383.33625(6), 395.003, 395.004, 395.0161, 395.1025, 395.1031, 395.1041, 395.1055, 395.3015, 408.819, 765.522, 873.01(3)(a) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 381.006, 381.0098, 383.33625, 395.001, 395.002, 395.003, 395.004, 395.0161, 395.0197, 395.1023, 395.1011, 395.1025, 395.1031, 395.1041, 395.1055, 395.3015, 395.3025, 408.035, 408.036, 415.1034, 765.522, 873.01(3)(a) FS.
A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: May 24, 2012, 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: AHCA, Fort Knox Bldg. 3, Conf. Rm. B, 2727 Mahan Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32308
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 5 days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Kimberly Stewart, [phone].
E-mail: [e-mail]. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Kimberly Stewart, [phone], E-mail: Kimberly. [e-mail]

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.