Louisiana survey readiness

What Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

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

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

Louisiana — Nursing Facility

What Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section can ask for, each cited. Checked July 2026.

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

Louisiana publishes a Model Nursing Home Emergency Plan and requires the facility's plan to conform to it. This is a prescribed template, not guidance — build the plan on the model rather than submitting your own structure.

La. R.S. 40:2009.25; LAC Title 48 · Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section

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

All nursing facility emergency plans are submitted yearly to the local or parish OHSEP. Separately, LDH does not approve full plans — it requires emergency preparedness plan SUMMARIES annually and again whenever the plan is changed, modified or amended. Two different counterparties, two different artefacts, two different triggers.

La. R.S. 40:2009.25; LAC Title 48 · Local / Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (OHSEP)

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Louisiana publishes a Model Nursing Home Emergency Plan and requires the facility's plan to conform to it. This is a prescribed template, not guidance — build the plan on the model rather than submitting your own structure.

La. R.S. 40:2009.25; LAC Title 48 · Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section

Nursing facilities located in the parishes named in La. R.S. 40:2009.25(A) submit their emergency preparedness information and documentation to the department for review. Check whether your parish is named — the obligation is geographic, not universal.

La. R.S. 40:2009.25(A) · Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section

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

Louisiana nursing facilities must enter current information into Mstat (or the current LDH emergency preparedness database) before the fifteenth of each month. This is a standing monthly operational obligation, not an emergency-time action, and it is the requirement most often missed because no national template contains anything like it.

LAC Title 48 / LDH emergency preparedness reporting · Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section

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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 Louisiana requires

Nursing Facility — Skilled nursing facility
  • Proof your plan was filed, and the date it went. All nursing facility emergency plans are submitted yearly to the local or parish OHSEP. Separately, LDH does not approve full plans — it requires emergency preparedness plan SUMMARIES annually and again whenever the plan is changed, modified or amended. Two different counterparties, two different artefacts, two different triggers. La. R.S. 40:2009.25; LAC Title 48
  • The state's own form: Louisiana Model Nursing Home Emergency Plan. Louisiana publishes a Model Nursing Home Emergency Plan and requires the facility's plan to conform to it. This is a prescribed template, not guidance — build the plan on the model rather than submitting your own structure. La. R.S. 40:2009.25; LAC Title 48
  • Monthly Mstat reporting — before the 15th. Louisiana nursing facilities must enter current information into Mstat (or the current LDH emergency preparedness database) before the fifteenth of each month. This is a standing monthly operational obligation, not an emergency-time action, and it is the requirement most often missed because no national template contains anything like it. LAC Title 48 / LDH emergency preparedness reporting
  • Named-parish review. Nursing facilities located in the parishes named in La. R.S. 40:2009.25(A) submit their emergency preparedness information and documentation to the department for review. Check whether your parish is named — the obligation is geographic, not universal. La. R.S. 40:2009.25(A)
Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Louisiana 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 — Louisiana Department of Health — Health Standards Section and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.