What does a Rhode Island surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period (216-RICR-40-10-2 (Licensing Assisted Living Residences); administrator certification at 216-RICR-40-05-18). Fire safety compliance is a licensing precondition (216-RICR-40-10-2). Source: Rhode Island Department of Health. Last checked July 2026.

Rhode Island survey readiness

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

The building

Rhode Island requirements loaded — the rules below are Rhode Island’s own.

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0 of 29 ready.

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

Rhode Island — Assisted Living Residence

What Rhode Island Department of Health can ask for, each cited. Checked July 2026.

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

Fire safety compliance is a licensing precondition

A Rhode Island assisted living license application must contain affirmative evidence of the ability to comply with the regulations and with federal, state and local laws on fire safety and other health and safety requirements. Fire safety is proved at application, not merely inspected later.

216-RICR-40-10-2 · Rhode Island Department of Health

Where the evidence isLast done

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

Fire safety compliance is a licensing precondition

216-RICR-40-10-2 · Rhode Island Department of Health

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?

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period

Drills at the required frequency: Simulated drills testing the EFFECTIVENESS of the emergency preparedness plan at least semi-annually, with written reports and an evaluation of every drill kept by the residence.

216-RICR-40-10-2 (Licensing Assisted Living Residences); administrator certification at 216-RICR-40-05-18 · Rhode Island Department of Health

Where the evidence isLast done

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Records to retainHow far back can you produce the records?

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period

216-RICR-40-10-2 (Licensing Assisted Living Residences); administrator certification at 216-RICR-40-05-18 · Rhode Island Department of Health

Where the evidence isLast done

Produce this →

What Rhode Island requires

Assisted Living Residence — Assisted living / residential care

Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: Simulated drills testing the EFFECTIVENESS of the emergency preparedness plan at least semi-annually, with written reports and an evaluation of every drill kept by the residence. 216-RICR-40-10-2 (Licensing Assisted Living Residences); administrator certification at 216-RICR-40-05-18
Fire safety compliance is a licensing precondition. A Rhode Island assisted living license application must contain affirmative evidence of the ability to comply with the regulations and with federal, state and local laws on fire safety and other health and safety requirements. Fire safety is proved at application, not merely inspected later. 216-RICR-40-10-2

Rhode Island Department of Health · checked July 2026

The evidence, and where it comes from

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