Emergency plan rules in Connecticut
7 licence types researched, regulated by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS). Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Skilled nursing facility
Licensed in Connecticut as Chronic and Convalescent Nursing Home (CCNH), by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS).
Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies §19-13-D8t (Chronic and convalescent nursing homes and rest homes with nursing supervision) — not yet confirmed against primary text
Drill frequency for Connecticut nursing homes has not been verified. NFPA 101 and CMS baselines apply; Connecticut may require more.
Not yet confirmed for this licence type — the national standard applies in the meantime.
Connecticut is one of a small group of states (with West Virginia and Wisconsin) that require the facility to provide a copy of its disaster plan to the local fire department, rather than merely keeping it on file. Confirm the current form of this obligation and to whom it runs.
Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies §19-13-D series — section to be confirmed — not yet confirmed against primary textConnecticut nursing homes are required to have back-up generator capacity available for use during power outages, under state as well as federal requirements. Note the contrast with homes for the aged, which carry no equivalent state obligation.
Connecticut state requirement — section to be confirmed — not yet confirmed against primary text- Connecticut licenses this class as a Chronic and Convalescent Nursing Home (CCNH). A facility combining nursing-home and rest-home levels is licensed as CCNH/RHNS and carries both rule sets.
- citation — Section confirmed to exist and to govern CCNH/RHNS. The specific disaster-plan and drill subsections have not been read against primary text.
- drills — Open the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies §19-13-D series on eRegulations (eregulations.ct.gov) and read the drill and disaster-plan subsections against this entry. Blocked from this environment by network policy, and — unlike most states — Connecticut's numbers are not restated in agency guidance, provider-association summaries or county documents, so no secondary route exists. ALSO CHECK: RCSA Title 19 subtitle 19-394a, 'Fire Exit Drills for Places of Employment' (§19-394a-3), which is a separate Connecticut drill regulation that may supply the cadence the health code does not state. DO NOT substitute the federal CMS or NFPA 101 quarterly-per-shift baseline for Connecticut's own rule — secondary sources describing Connecticut drills are restating the federal standard, not the state one.
- mandate[0] — Confirm in the RCSA §19-13-D subsection for this license class. Sourced from a multi-state academic compilation, not primary text.
- mandate[1] — Confirm the state hook and its capacity/run-time terms; the federal CMS §483.73(e) obligation applies independently for certified facilities.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in Connecticut as Assisted Living Services Agency (ALSA) operating in a Managed Residential Community (MRC), by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS).
RCSA §19-13-D105 (Assisted Living Services Agencies); CGS Ch. 368bb §§19a-693 et seq. (Managed Residential Communities) — not yet confirmed against primary text
Drill frequency for Connecticut ALSA/MRC has not been verified.
Not yet confirmed for this licence type — the national standard applies in the meantime.
Connecticut requires the assisted living agency to provide its emergency plan of operations to the political subdivision of the state in which it is located, so that the municipality can build it into its own emergency plan of operations. This is a filing obligation with the town, not with the licensing agency — a plan that is perfect in content and never sent to the municipality does not satisfy it.
Authority: The political subdivision (municipality) in which the community is located
- STRUCTURAL: Connecticut does not license an 'assisted living facility'. It licenses an Assisted Living Services Agency — a service provider — and that agency may only operate inside a separately registered Managed Residential Community. The MRC must already provide core services (housekeeping, laundry and the rest) before it may engage an ALSA.
- Two entities share one building, and the emergency plan has to say which one owns each duty. The MRC controls the building, the egress and the generator; the ALSA controls the clinical response and knows which residents need help to evacuate. A plan naming only one of them leaves a real gap on the night it matters.
- An ALSA may also serve residents across more than one MRC, in which case its plan has to address each site.
- citation — Chapter and section numbers confirmed to exist and to govern ALSA/MRC. Subsection text not read.
- filing — Confirm the governing section (likely CGS Ch. 368bb §19a-694, Managed residential communities — operational requirements) and whether the duty sits on the MRC, the ALSA, or both.
- drills — Open the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies §19-13-D series on eRegulations (eregulations.ct.gov) and read the drill and disaster-plan subsections against this entry. Blocked from this environment by network policy, and — unlike most states — Connecticut's numbers are not restated in agency guidance, provider-association summaries or county documents, so no secondary route exists. ALSO CHECK: RCSA Title 19 subtitle 19-394a, 'Fire Exit Drills for Places of Employment' (§19-394a-3), which is a separate Connecticut drill regulation that may supply the cadence the health code does not state. DO NOT substitute the federal CMS or NFPA 101 quarterly-per-shift baseline for Connecticut's own rule — secondary sources describing Connecticut drills are restating the federal standard, not the state one.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
Group home / residential care home
Licensed in Connecticut as Residential Care Home (RCH), by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS).
RCSA §19-13-D6 (Homes for the aged and rest homes) — not yet confirmed against primary text
The licensee submits a current certificate of inspection by the local fire marshal to the Department of Public Health each year. This is a fire-marshal inspection certificate rather than the emergency plan itself — but it is an annual filing the plan should track, because the inspection and the plan are read together.
Authority: Connecticut Department of Public Health
Cadence: Annually
Connecticut is one of a small group of states (with West Virginia and Wisconsin) that require the facility to provide a copy of its disaster plan to the local fire department, rather than merely keeping it on file. Confirm the current form of this obligation and to whom it runs.
Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies §19-13-D series — section to be confirmed — not yet confirmed against primary textUnlike nursing homes, Connecticut homes for the aged / residential care homes carry no equivalent state back-up generator requirement. Do not import the nursing-home obligation into this class — but do address loss of power, because the residents are the same people.
Contrast drawn from Connecticut legislative discussion of SB 772 (2017) — not yet confirmed against primary text- citation — Section confirmed to exist and to govern residential care homes. Disaster-plan and drill subsections not read.
- filing — Confirm the subsection of RCSA §19-13-D6 and whether the emergency plan itself is also filed.
- mandate[0] — Confirm in the RCSA §19-13-D subsection for this license class. Sourced from a multi-state academic compilation, not primary text.
- mandate[1] — Confirm no generator mandate has been added since; SB 772 (2017) proposed extending generator requirements to certain elderly housing.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
Independent / senior living
Licensed in Connecticut as Managed Residential Community (MRC) — registered, not licensed, by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS).
CGS Ch. 368bb §§19a-693 et seq. — not yet confirmed against primary text
- An MRC registers with DPH rather than holding a facility license, and it must provide core services before an ALSA can operate within it. Where no ALSA is engaged, the community is closer to independent living and the plan should not imply clinical capability it does not have.
- citation — Chapter confirmed. Operational requirements in §19a-694 not read against primary text.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
Hospital
Licensed in Connecticut as Hospital, by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS).
RCSA §19-13-D3 (Hospitals); CGS Ch. 368v (Health Care Institutions) — not yet confirmed against primary text
- citation — Section and chapter confirmed to exist. Emergency preparedness subsections not read.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
Home health / home hospice agency
Licensed in Connecticut as Home Health Care Agency (HHC) / Homemaker–Home Health Aide Agency (HHHA), by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS) — Home Health Unit.
RCSA §19-13-D66 through §19-13-D79 (home health care agencies)
- An agency with no building of its own does not evacuate a facility. Its plan accounts for field staff, decides which visits are safe, and reaches clients whose visit is not going to happen.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
Ambulatory surgical center
Licensed in Connecticut as Outpatient Surgical Facility, by Connecticut Department of Public Health — Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (FLIS).
RCSA §19-13-D56 (outpatient surgical facilities) — not yet confirmed against primary text
- citation — Section number not confirmed.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
What this page is
The requirements Connecticut places on a facility emergency preparedness plan, taken from the state’s own rules rather than a national template. Where we have confirmed something against primary text it is stated plainly; where we have not, it says so and names what to check. Nothing here is inferred from what other states do.
The part that is the same everywhere
The federal floor does not vary by state. OSHA 29 CFR §1910.38 binds any employer: reporting an emergency, evacuation and exit-route assignments, critical-operations shutdown, accounting for everyone afterwards, rescue and medical duties, and naming who to ask about the plan. That layer, plus the exit-route, alarm and first-aid rules and the fire code’s plan structure, is covered in the main crash course rather than repeated on all fifty state pages.
Write the plan
The Emergency Plan Builder produces the document itself and is driven by this same research, so the two cannot disagree about what Connecticut requires. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.