QSO Letter 20-41: Guidance Related to Emergency Preparedness- Exercise Exemption Based on a Community’s Activation of Their Emergency Plan

QSO Letter 20-41: Guidance Related to Emergency Preparedness- Exercise Exemption Based on a Community’s Activation of Their Emergency Plan

QSO 20-41 has been revised for a second time to provide additional guidance and clarifications due to the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency.  If the facility is still operating under its currently activated emergency plan during its specified 12-month cycle of testing exercises, any currently activated emergency plan will be recognized by surveyors as having met the full-scale exercise requirement for that 12-month cycle. If the facility claimed the full-scale exercise exemption in 2020 and 2021 based on its activated emergency plan for COVID-19 response and has since resumed normal operating status, the inpatient provider/supplier is expected to complete its required full-scale exercise, unless it has reactivated its emergency plan for an actual emergency during its 12-month cycle for 2022.

 

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Laura Hofmann, MSN, RN – Director of Clinical and Nursing Facility Regulatory Services
c: 425-231-4804

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