New Mexico survey readiness

What New Mexico Health Care Authority (formerly Department of Health, Division of Health Improvement) can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.

What New Mexico requires

Assisted Living Facility for Adults — Assisted living / residential care
  • The old citation is dead — 7.8.2 NMAC was repealed. 7.8.2 NMAC, Requirements for Adult Residential Care Facilities, was REPEALED effective July 1, 2024 and replaced by 8.370.14 NMAC under the Health Care Authority. Any plan, policy manual or vendor template still citing 7.8.2 NMAC is citing a rule that no longer exists — and the regulator changed too, from the Department of Health to the Health Care Authority. 8.370.14 NMAC, effective July 1, 2024
New Mexico Health Care Authority (formerly Department of Health, Division of Health Improvement) · checked July 2026We have not confirmed New Mexico's drill frequency for this license class, so no frequency is stated. Read 8.370.14 NMAC for the emergency/disaster and drill sections. Do NOT carry anything forward from 7.8.2 NMAC — it was repealed July 1, 2024.

The evidence, and where it comes from

Every item above needs something you can hand over. The fire drill log produces the drill record — we have not published a New Mexico page, because we have not verified a New Mexico drill frequency, 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 — New Mexico Health Care Authority (formerly Department of Health, Division of Health Improvement) and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.

Questions people ask

What does a New Mexico surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?
The old citation is dead — 7.8.2 NMAC was repealed (8.370.14 NMAC, effective July 1, 2024). Source: New Mexico Health Care Authority (formerly Department of Health, Division of Health Improvement). Last checked July 2026.