Wisconsin resident emergency information

If a resident cannot be safely evacuated and is instructed to remain in the resident's bedroom, the CBRF must be sprinklered, must notify the local fire department and identify the specific residents using point of rescue, and must have 24-hour awake qualified resident care staff.

What Wisconsin requires

Community-Based Residential Facility (CBRF) — Residents who stay in their bedroom at a point of rescue

If a resident cannot be safely evacuated and is instructed to remain in the resident's bedroom, the CBRF must be sprinklered, must notify the local fire department and identify the specific residents using point of rescue, and must have 24-hour awake qualified resident care staff.

Wis. Admin. Code DHS 83.47(1)(c) · Wisconsin Department of Health Services · checked September 2026

Recording it, not just doing it

Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin staff training record is the other half of the same request, and both feed the Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin

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.