Massachusetts resident emergency information

Massachusetts requires the residence to give every resident a copy of the instructions they will be given under the disaster and emergency plan. Most states require the plan to exist; this one requires it to have been handed to each resident in a form they can act on.

This one holds personal information.

Mobility and assistance needs are health information about a named person. It stays on this device and is never sent anywhere — but the printed sheet does leave the screen, so treat it the way you treat a care plan.

The facility

Massachusetts requirements loaded — the rules below are Massachusetts’s own.

MassachusettsEvery resident gets a copy of their own instructions

Massachusetts requires the residence to give every resident a copy of the instructions they will be given under the disaster and emergency plan. Most states require the plan to exist; this one requires it to have been handed to each resident in a form they can act on.

651 CMR 12.00 · Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA)
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What Massachusetts requires

Assisted Living Residence (ALR) — certified, not licensedEvery resident gets a copy of their own instructions

Massachusetts requires the residence to give every resident a copy of the instructions they will be given under the disaster and emergency plan. Most states require the plan to exist; this one requires it to have been handed to each resident in a form they can act on.

651 CMR 12.00 · Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) · checked July 2026

Recording it, not just doing it

Massachusetts states no deadline we have verified, so this sheet does not invent one. It records the orientation, what the resident needs in an evacuation, and who is responsible for them — which is what the rule above asks you to hold. The Massachusetts staff training record is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Massachusetts readiness sheet.

It stays on your device

Mobility and assistance needs are health information about a named person. Nothing typed here is sent anywhere, and the shared building record keeps only the date an orientation happened — never what the sheet said about the resident.

Everything else we’ve researched about Massachusetts

Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.

General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. The rule above is cited and dated to when we last checked it.