Title: Nursing Home Quality and Licensure Status

Summary: Deletes a criteria for recognition as a Gold Seal Program facility.

Full Text:
An act relating to nursing home quality and licensure status; amending s. 400.235, F.S.; deleting a criteria for recognition as a Gold Seal Program facility; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subsection (5) of section 400.235, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph (f) and present paragraph (f) of that subsection is amended to read: 400.235 Nursing home quality and licensure status; Gold Seal Program.  (5) Facilities must meet the following additional criteria for recognition as a Gold Seal Program facility: (f) Evidence an outstanding record regarding the number and types of substantiated complaints reported to the State Long Term Care Ombudsman Council within the months preceding application for the program. A facility assigned a conditional licensure status may not qualify for consideration for the Gold Seal Program until after it has operated for months with no class I or class II deficiencies and has completed a regularly scheduled relicensure survey. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.