The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Florida - Agency for Health Care Administration (State health-facility licensing agency) · Florida
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Rulemaking authority 408.819, 408.821(4), F.S.; Law Implemented 408.819, 408.821(4), F.S. (recited)
- Issued
- 2020-05-05 May 5, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-05
- End
- 90 days (superseded July 15, 2020 by 59AER20-6) (read as 2020-07-15)
- In force
- May 5, 2020 to July 15, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- every hospital licensed under Fla. Stat. ch. 395
- Functions reached
- IP discharge planning (mandatory pre-discharge testing)
- DX diagnostics
- IN intake at long-term care facilities (admissions conditioned on hospital testing)
- Collection
- State health department orders to licensed settings AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS
Operative words
59AER20-1 Hospital Screening Requirements for Long-Term Care Facility Residents. (a) Every hospital must test any long-term care facility resident for COVID-19, using an FDA-approved lab-based PCR test, prior to discharging the individual to any long-term care facility.... EFFECTIVE DATE: May 5, 2020
Enforcement
Fla. Stat. § 408.813 (administrative fines) and § 395.1065; § 408.821(4)
Notes
The first of the AHCA COVID-19 emergency rules; ties hospital discharges to long-term-care admissions.
Retrieval noteExhibit is the rule text as filed (.doc) with the Florida Administrative Register; notice 23215900. The.doc could not be converted to PDF on this machine (Word COM rejected the long paths); the text was read from the file. E requires; the sha256 recorded is that of the Word file.