Definitions, Licensure Requirements

 

AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

Health Facility and Agency Licensing

RULE NOS:RULE TITLES:

59A-8.002Definitions

59A-8.003: Licensure Requirements

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 45 No. 58, March 25, 2019 issue of the Florida Administrative Register.

 

The following changes will be made to the Health Care Licensing Application, Home Health Agency, AHCA Form 3110-1011, April 2019:

 

Page 5, Section 5.A. Administrator and Alternate Administrator:

In part A, “physician’s assistant and FL DOH License #” will be added to the qualifications selection for the Administrator and the Alternate Administrator.

 

Page 8, Section 8. Accreditation/Deemed Status:

The section title will be changed from “Accreditation/Deemed Status” to “Accreditation”.

 

In the accreditation information table under the Accrediting Organization column, “Community Health Accreditation Program” will be changed to “Community Health Accreditation Partner”.

 

The following attestation will be added to the end of section 8:

“I understand that the complete accreditation survey report must be submitted to the Agency for review if the accreditation survey report is to be accepted in lieu of annual licensure inspections and such reports used to meet licensure requirements are considered public documents subject to disclosure per chapter 119, F.S.  A complete accreditation survey report includes correspondence from the accrediting organization containing the dates of the survey, any citations to which the accreditation organization requires a response, the facility’s response to each citation, the effective date of accreditation and verification of Medicare (CMS) deemed status, if applicable.”

 

Page 9, Section 11. Services:

A new question will be added as part D.: “Does your agency provide or plan to provide staffing services to a health care facility, school, or other business entity by licensed health care personnel, certified nursing assistants and home health aides who are employed by, or work under the auspices of, the home health agency pursuant to s. 400.462(30), F.S., Yes or No?”

 

Current Part D. will be renumbered to Part E.

 

Page 11, Section 13. Supporting Documents

The “Documents to be Provided” text and the “Required for” text in the table will be changed to read:

 

Documents to be Provided:……………..Required For:

 

“Proof of Accreditation documentation and survey report”……………… Initial, Renewal, Change of Ownership, and Addition of Skilled Care Services application types, if home health agency is required to be accredited.

 

Business Plan signed by applicant, detailing the home health agency’s methods to obtain patients and its plan to recruit and maintain staff……………….. Initial, Change of Ownership and Addition of Skilled Care Services application types

 

Certificate of occupancy signed by local authorized zoning, building and electrical officials…………….. Initial, Change of Ownership and Change of address application types

 

Plan for delivery of services…………………. Application for addition of counties within geographic service area only

 

Health Care Licensing Application Addendum, AHCA Form 3110-1024………………… Initial, Renewal, Change of Ownership, Addition of Skilled Care Services and Change of Personnel or Controlling Interest application types

 

The following changes will be made to the Health Care Licensing Application, Home Health Agency, AHCA Form 3110-1011 OL, April 2019:

 

Section – Accreditation:

In the accreditation information table under the Accrediting Organization column, “Community Health Accreditation Program” will be changed to “Community Health Accreditation Partner”.

 

Section – Services:

The reference to section 400.471(2)(c), F.S., in question 4. will be corrected to section 400.474(7), F.S.

 

A new question will be added as question 4.: “Does your agency provide or plan to provide staffing services to a health care facility, school, or other business entity by licensed health care personnel, certified nursing assistants and home health aides who are employed by, or work under the auspices of, the home health agency pursuant to s. 400.462(30), F.S., Yes or No?”

 

Current question 4. will be renumbered to question 5.