Arizona survey readiness

What Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

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

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30 of the outstanding items are the ones a survey opens with.

Arizona — Assisted Living Facility (center, home or adult day)

What Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing can ask for, each cited. Checked July 2026.

Goes in the planIs the section written, and does it say what the rule requires?

When, how and where residents will be relocated; how each resident's medical record will be available to whoever provides services during the disaster; a plan ensuring each resident's medication is available to administer; and a plan for obtaining food and water for everyone present, at the facility or at the relocation site.

Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 · Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing

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Must be filed or approvedWas it sent — and where approval is required, was it approved?

Arizona takes the plan at the STATE licensing application rather than through a county emergency management agency. There is no local EM filing or approval step — the plan is submitted to ADHS with the application and thereafter reviewed at least every 12 months in house.

Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards) · Arizona Department of Health Services, as part of the licensing application

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Must be done, on a scheduleWhen did it last happen, and was that inside the interval?

Drills at the required frequency: A disaster drill for employees on each shift at least once every three months, documented. Separately an evacuation drill for employees AND residents at least once every six months, including everyone on the premises — except a resident whose medical record documents that evacuating would cause them harm, plus enough caregivers to keep the residents who stay safe.

Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards) · Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing · keep: Documentation of each evacuation drill maintained for at least 12 months after the drill. The disaster plan is reviewed at least once every 12 months.

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Records to retainHow far back can you produce the records?

Drills at the required frequency: A disaster drill for employees on each shift at least once every three months, documented. Separately an evacuation drill for employees AND residents at least once every six months, including everyone on the premises — except a resident whose medical record documents that evacuating would cause them harm, plus enough caregivers to keep the residents who stay safe.

Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards) · Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing · keep: Documentation of each evacuation drill maintained for at least 12 months after the drill. The disaster plan is reviewed at least once every 12 months.

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Documentation of each evacuation drill maintained for at least 12 months after the drill. The disaster plan is reviewed at least once every 12 months.

Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards) · Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing · keep: Documentation of each evacuation drill maintained for at least 12 months after the drill. The disaster plan is reviewed at least once every 12 months.

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Life-safety systems

The code-based tests a life-safety survey opens with. These are the starred ones — the full schedule is the compliance calendar.

Test record

NFPA 72 Table 14.4.3.2 (supervisory device testing) (2022) · national · keep: Minimum 5 years

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Certificate + inspection report

NFPA 72 §14.4 (annual ITM) (2022) · national · keep: Minimum 5 years

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Test record

NFPA 25 §5.3.3 / §13.7 (2023) · national · keep: Life of system

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Static + residual pressures; compare to prior; >10% drop investigated

NFPA 25 §5.3.3 (main drain quarterly where sole supply passes through backflow preventer or PRV) (2023) · national · keep: Life of system

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Pressures vs prior year

NFPA 25 §13.2.5 (2023) · national · keep: Life of system

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Written record for AHJ

NFPA 80 §5.2.1 (annual, 13 criteria) (2022) · national · keep: 3 years

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Report

NFPA 110 §8.3.1 (2022) · national · keep: Per authority

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Damper log with location, ID, pass/fail and corrective action.

NFPA 80 §19.4 / NFPA 105 Ch. 6 (2022) · national · keep: Until the next test, minimum 3 years

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Written report listing every damper by location with pass/fail

NFPA 80 §19.4 / NFPA 105 Ch. 6 (hospital 6-year interval) (2022) · national · keep: Until the next test, minimum 3 years

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Monthly firefighter service log.

ASME A17.1 §8.6.11.1 (2019) · state-governed · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Trip test report with trip time and water delivery time.

NFPA 25 §13.4.4.2.2 (3-year full trip) (2020) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Tank inspection report.

NFPA 25 §9.2.6 (interior inspection) (2020) · national · keep: Until the next interior inspection

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Smoke control test report with fan and damper positions.

NFPA 92 §8.4.2 (dedicated: semiannual) (2021) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Signed drill sheet: date, time, shift, participants, evacuation time.

NFPA 101 §19.7.1 / CMS LSC (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Signed drill sheet.

NFPA 101 §19.7.1 / CMS LSC (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Signed drill sheet.

NFPA 101 §19.7.1 / CMS LSC (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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After-action report and improvement plan.

42 CFR §483.73(d)(2) (—) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Signed HVA.

42 CFR §483.73(a)(1) (—) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Dated plan revision.

42 CFR §483.73(a) (—) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Dated plan revision and team roster.

ASHRAE 188 / CMS QSO-17-30 (2018) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Readings against control limits.

ASHRAE 188 §7 (2018) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Receptacle test record by room.

NFPA 99 §6.3.3.2 (12-month interval applies to receptacles not listed hospital grade) (2021) · national · keep: Minimum 3 years

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Rounds log.

NFPA 101 §19.3.6 (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Barrier log with locations.

NFPA 101 §19.3.7 (2012) · national · keep: Survey cycle

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Photo of posting with date.

29 CFR §1904.32(b)(6) (—) · national · keep: 5 years

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Temperature log by unit.

FDA Food Code §3-501.16 (cold holding, as adopted by your state) (2022) · state-governed · keep: Minimum 1 year

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Inspection report and corrective-action record.

Local AHJ (—) · local · keep: Minimum 3 years

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What Arizona requires

Assisted Living Facility (center, home or adult day) — Assisted living / residential care
  • Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: A disaster drill for employees on each shift at least once every three months, documented. Separately an evacuation drill for employees AND residents at least once every six months, including everyone on the premises — except a resident whose medical record documents that evacuating would cause them harm, plus enough caregivers to keep the residents who stay safe. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)
  • Proof your plan was filed, and the date it went. Arizona takes the plan at the STATE licensing application rather than through a county emergency management agency. There is no local EM filing or approval step — the plan is submitted to ADHS with the application and thereafter reviewed at least every 12 months in house. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)
  • Records going back as far as the rule requires. Documentation of each evacuation drill maintained for at least 12 months after the drill. The disaster plan is reviewed at least once every 12 months. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)
  • Required disaster plan contents. When, how and where residents will be relocated; how each resident's medical record will be available to whoever provides services during the disaster; a plan ensuring each resident's medication is available to administer; and a plan for obtaining food and water for everyone present, at the facility or at the relocation site. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818
Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Arizona fire drill log produces the drill record at the frequency this state sets, the emergency plan builder writes the plan itself from the same research, and the compliance calendar puts the life-safety tests on dates. Anything you record against the building shows up on the checklist already ticked.

Everything else we’ve researched about Arizona

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

A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.