What does a District of Columbia surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?

DC imports the federal CMS standard wholesale (42 CFR §483.73, as adopted by District of Columbia regulation). Source: District of Columbia Department of Health — Health Regulation and Licensing Administration. Last checked July 2026.

District of Columbia survey readiness

What District of Columbia Department of Health — Health Regulation and Licensing Administration can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

The building

District of Columbia requirements loaded — the rules below are District of Columbia’s own.

Facility name *Survey expected

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0 of 28 ready.

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

District of Columbia — Assisted Living Residence

What District of Columbia Department of Health — Health Regulation and Licensing Administration can ask for, each cited. Checked July 2026.

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

DC imports the federal CMS standard wholesale

The District requires assisted living residences to meet THE SAME EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS STANDARDS that CMS sets for long-term care facilities at 42 CFR §483.73 — whether or not the residence participates in Medicare or Medicaid. This is unique among the jurisdictions researched. Everywhere else the CMS four core elements attach to federal participation; in DC they attach to the local license. A DC assisted living residence therefore owes the full risk assessment, communication plan, policies and procedures, and the two-exercise-per-year testing programme, on state-law authority alone.

42 CFR §483.73, as adopted by District of Columbia regulation · District of Columbia Department of Health — Health Regulation and Licensing Administration

Where the evidence isLast done

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

DC imports the federal CMS standard wholesale

42 CFR §483.73, as adopted by District of Columbia regulation · District of Columbia Department of Health — Health Regulation and Licensing Administration

Where the evidence isLast done

Produce this →

What District of Columbia requires

Assisted Living Residence — Assisted living / residential care

DC imports the federal CMS standard wholesale. The District requires assisted living residences to meet THE SAME EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS STANDARDS that CMS sets for long-term care facilities at 42 CFR §483.73 — whether or not the residence participates in Medicare or Medicaid. This is unique among the jurisdictions researched. Everywhere else the CMS four core elements attach to federal participation; in DC they attach to the local license. A DC assisted living residence therefore owes the full risk assessment, communication plan, policies and procedures, and the two-exercise-per-year testing programme, on state-law authority alone. 42 CFR §483.73, as adopted by District of Columbia regulation

District of Columbia Department of Health — Health Regulation and Licensing Administration · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The District of Columbia 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.

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