Wisconsin survey readiness
What Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services — Division of Quality Assurance, Bureau of Assisted Living can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.
31 of the outstanding items are the ones a survey opens with.
What Wisconsin requires
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: Fire evacuation drills at least quarterly with both employees and residents, and at least one a year simulating conditions during usual sleeping hours. Tornado, flooding or other emergency and disaster evacuation drills at least semi-annually. Wis. Admin. Code DHS 83.47 (fire safety) and DHS 83.48
- Time the evacuation, and record who was too slow. Drill documentation must include the date and time and the facility's TOTAL EVACUATION TIME — and the facility must record any resident whose evacuation time exceeded the limit allowed under DHS 83.35(5), along with the type of assistance that resident needed. Wisconsin turns the drill into a measurement of whether each resident can still be safely housed there. Wis. Admin. Code DHS 83.47
- Tell the fire department about your areas of refuge. The local fire department must be made aware of the areas of refuge, if any, and the potential number of residents who would use them. A CBRF with an area of refuge must notify the local fire department of its emergency evacuation plan, including the use and location of each area of refuge and the potential number of residents and employees who would use each one. Wis. Admin. Code DHS 83.47
- Brief every new resident within 72 hours. Fire, tornado, flooding and other emergency or disaster procedures must be clearly communicated to a new resident within 72 hours after admission. Wis. Admin. Code DHS 83.48
The evidence, and where it comes from
Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Wisconsin deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Wisconsin deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Wisconsin deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
- Wisconsin move-in condition reportThe walkthrough record that decides deposit arguments later.
A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services — Division of Quality Assurance, Bureau of Assisted Living and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.