Long-term care facilities in Florida that have yet to comply with new emergency preparedness requirements, which include installing permanent or temporary generators, could lose their licenses, according to the head of the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration.
Agency Secretary Mary Mayhew said the agency was going to be reluctant to grant variances beyond the end of December, so 2020 could prove interesting for slow adopters.
“We absolutely will take action against their license if we can demonstrate that they have failed to make good faith efforts to come into compliance with this law,” she said.
An “overwhelming majority” of the state’s nursing homes — more than 82% — were in compliance with generator requirements, according to officials at the Florida Health Care Association.
The organization told McKnight’s that it fully supports the new requirements and members are “working continually toward final permanent generator installation and remain committed to completing their projects as quickly as possible.”
From the January 2020 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
