What does a surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?

The written plan, evidence the drills were run at the frequency your state requires, proof the plan was filed or approved where the state requires that, staff training records, and the life-safety testing records for the building's systems. Several states add requirements a national template misses entirely — Florida's emergency power standard, Louisiana's monthly database entry, Texas's requirement that a printed copy be on site.

How do I prepare for a state survey?

Work backwards from what can be asked for. List each requirement that applies to your licence class, find the evidence for it, and note where that evidence physically is — a binder tab, a folder, a log. The items you cannot point at are the findings you are going to get. This tool builds that list for your state with the rule cited beside each item.

Is this a compliance determination?

No. It is a self-assessment against published rules, each cited and dated to when we last checked it. CompliMaint issues nothing and determines nothing — your licensing agency and your authority having jurisdiction do that. Requirements we could not verify are left out rather than guessed at.

Survey readiness checklist

48 states

What a surveyor can actually ask you for, in your state, with the citation beside it — and a list of what you can't yet produce.

The building

Facility name *Survey expected

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Why a generic checklist is worse than none

Every state writes its own emergency-preparedness rules, and the differences are not cosmetic. Florida requires alternative power able to hold the building at or below 81 °F for 96 hours. Louisiana nursing facilities must enter current information into a state database before the fifteenth of every month. Texas requires a current printed copy of the plan in a central location, not just a file on a server. A national template contains none of that, and the surveyor standing in your lobby is holding your state’s rule, not the template.

So this is built per state and per licence class, from 126 verified state requirements and 27 code-based life-safety tests. Every line carries the rule behind it. Anything we could not source is absent rather than padded in.

It reads what you’ve already recorded

An item you can evidence with another tool here arrives already ticked. Log a drill in the fire drill log and the drill line on this sheet knows about it, with the date. That is the point of keeping records in one place rather than in a folder per tool — the readiness check is a view of what you have done, not a second thing to fill in.

The gaps are the output

The number at the top is not the product. The list underneath it is: the items you cannot point at, ordered so the ones a survey opens with come first. Those are the findings you are otherwise going to get, three weeks early and with the tool that produces the missing evidence linked next to each one.

Pick your state

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A self-assessment, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing and certifies nothing — your licensing agency and your authority having jurisdiction do. Every requirement shown is cited and dated to when we last checked it; verify before you rely on it. Everything runs on your device.

Part of Assisted living — Your state's own requirements — drills, training, filings, postings, records — each cited, each with the tool that produces the document, and one place that says what is due next.

Emergency Preparedness Plan Builder — Built to the published requirements for your facility type and location.
Fire Drill Record & Log by State — The drill record, carrying your state's own frequency rule.
Emergency Preparedness Staff Training Record — Trained on time — or how many days past the deadline.