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Hospital Compliance Calendar

The fire and life-safety program a hospital typically runs — every required inspection dated from your real last-completed dates, with the tasks your trained staff can legally perform marked out. Turn on the CMS / accreditation overlay for the generator and drill records those programs ask for.

  1. 1Address
  2. 2Facility
  3. 3Systems
  4. 4Details
  5. 5Dates
  6. 6Review
Facility address

Printed on every output — the calendar header and log sheets. You can skip it and add it later.

Free · No signup. Your dates and facility details stay on your device — every calculation happens on your device.

What a hospital compliance calendar contains

Built from this building’s usual system set, the schedule comes to 52 dated obligations, across 15 systems. 44 of the dated ones are required by an adopted code, a consensus standard or a federal rule; the rest are standard of care — widely expected, often asked for at survey, and not fixed by an enforceable interval. Repeated over a year they come to roughly 478 separate checks, and 29 of the 52 may be performed by your own trained staff rather than a licensed contractor.

The cadence is front-loaded, which is what makes it hard to hold in a head or a spreadsheet: 5 weekly, 15 monthly, 3 quarterly, 5 semi-annual, and 14 annual, and 10 on longer cycles of two years and more. A weekly row missed in March is not visible again until somebody looks for it, which is the failure this calendar is for.

Against a skilled nursing building the difference is narrow and specific. A hospital runs three systems that building does not: fire pump, standpipes, and boiler. Everything else on the two schedules is the same work on the same intervals, which is why picking the wrong facility type here is usually a small error and occasionally an expensive one.

This building is not certified for Medicare or Medicaid participation, so the CMS and accreditation overlay does not apply to it: the generator runs on the NFPA 110 monthly exercise rather than twelve times a year on 20–40 day spacing, and fire drills follow the occupancy’s own requirement rather than one per shift per quarter. If your building is certified, switch the overlay on in the builder above.

What has to survive afterwards. The schedule names 35 distinct kinds of record between them — activation log/tag per unit, battery change log, calibrated test record, certificate + deficiency report, certificate + inspection report, and certificate posted, and 29 others. The longest retention any single row here demands is “life of device”, so the filing question is not whether a task was done but whether the paper for it can still be produced years later. That is the half a calendar alone does not solve, and it is why each row links to the log or register that keeps its evidence.

Systems a hospital usually runs

Fire alarmFire extinguishersEmergency / exit lightingFire doorsSprinkler systemFire pumpStandpipesEmergency generatorCommercial kitchen hoodElevator(s)HVACBackflow preventer(s)Medical gasEyewash stationsBoiler

The builder pre-checks these and dates each required inspection. As a healthcare facility, CMS and accreditation tighten the generator testing schedule and add fire-drill records — the overlay handles both.

Other facility types: Skilled Nursing · Assisted Living · Independent Living · Behavioral Health · Multifamily

Running it for real? Keep the schedule, the logs and the evidence in one place →

National consensus-standard baselines with the edition noted per item. Your state, fire marshal, water authority, or accrediting body may require more. General information, not legal or engineering advice.