What does a Maryland surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period (COMAR 10.07.14.46 and .47 (Emergency Preparedness)). Records going back as far as the rule requires (COMAR 10.07.14.46 and .47 (Emergency Preparedness)). Orientation within 24 hours of starting work (COMAR 10.07.14.46/.47). Source: Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality. Last checked July 2026.

Maryland survey readiness

What Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

The building

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

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0 of 30 ready.

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

Maryland — Assisted Living Program

What Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality can ask for, each cited. Checked July 2026.

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

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period

Drills at the required frequency: A semiannual emergency and disaster drill on ALL shifts, alternating between evacuating residents and sheltering in place so that each is practiced at least once a year. Where the programme can demonstrate that moving residents would harm them, the drill may be run as a table-top exercise instead.

COMAR 10.07.14.46 and .47 (Emergency Preparedness) · Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality · keep: Drill records kept on file for a minimum of 2 years, including signatures of all participating staff and the opportunities for improvement identified.

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Orientation within 24 hours of starting work

Staff must be oriented to the emergency and disaster plan and to their own individual responsibilities within 24 hours of commencing job duties, with completion documented in the personnel file. Not within a week, and not at the next scheduled in-service.

COMAR 10.07.14.46/.47 · Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality

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Records to retainHow far back can you produce the records?

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period

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Records going back as far as the rule requires

Drill records kept on file for a minimum of 2 years, including signatures of all participating staff and the opportunities for improvement identified.

Where the evidence isLast done

Produce this →

What Maryland requires

Assisted Living Program — Assisted living / residential care

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: A semiannual emergency and disaster drill on ALL shifts, alternating between evacuating residents and sheltering in place so that each is practiced at least once a year. Where the programme can demonstrate that moving residents would harm them, the drill may be run as a table-top exercise instead. COMAR 10.07.14.46 and .47 (Emergency Preparedness)
Records going back as far as the rule requires. Drill records kept on file for a minimum of 2 years, including signatures of all participating staff and the opportunities for improvement identified. COMAR 10.07.14.46 and .47 (Emergency Preparedness)
Orientation within 24 hours of starting work. Staff must be oriented to the emergency and disaster plan and to their own individual responsibilities within 24 hours of commencing job duties, with completion documented in the personnel file. Not within a week, and not at the next scheduled in-service. COMAR 10.07.14.46/.47

Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Maryland 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 Maryland

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 — Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.