Minnesota survey readiness
What Minnesota Department of Health can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.
30 of the outstanding items are the ones a survey opens with.
What Minnesota requires
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: Evacuation drills twice per year per shift, with at least one drill every other month — a minimum of six a year. Minn. Stat. §144G.42 subd. 10 (disaster planning and emergency preparedness); Minn. R. 4659.0100 and 4659.0110
- Minnesota imports the federal CMS standard by statute. Minnesota assisted living facilities must comply with the federal emergency preparedness regulations for long-term care facilities at 42 CFR §483.73, OR SUCCESSOR REQUIREMENTS — regardless of Medicare or Medicaid participation. MDH even publishes an 'Emergency Preparedness: Appendix Z' survey form for assisted living providers. This is the same mechanism as the District of Columbia, and it means the full four core elements attach on state-law authority alone. Minn. Stat. §144G.42 subd. 10
- Four named plan contents, and training offered to residents. The written emergency disaster plan must contain a plan for evacuation, address the elements of sheltering in place, identify temporary relocation sites, and detail staff assignments. Emergency and disaster training is given to all staff at initial orientation and annually after — and must also be MADE ANNUALLY AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS, not only to staff. Minn. Stat. §144G.42 subd. 10; Minn. R. 4659.0100
The evidence, and where it comes from
Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Minnesota 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 Minnesota
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Minnesota deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Minnesota deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Minnesota deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Minnesota Department of Health and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.