Florida Statutes
Part I - Hospitals and Other Licensed Facilities (Ss. 395.001-395.3041)
395.0162 - Inspection reports.


(1) Each licensed facility shall maintain as public information, available upon request, records of all inspection reports pertaining to that facility. Copies of such reports shall be retained in its records for not less than 5 years from the date the reports are filed and issued.
(2) Any records, reports, or documents which are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) shall not be distributed or made available for purposes of compliance with this section unless or until such confidential status expires.
(3) A licensed facility shall, upon the request of any person who has completed a written application with intent to be admitted to such facility, any person who is a patient of such facility, or any relative, spouse, guardian, or surrogate of any such person, furnish to the requester a copy of the last inspection report filed with or issued by the agency pertaining to the licensed facility, as provided in subsection (1), provided the person requesting such report agrees to pay a reasonable charge to cover copying costs, not to exceed $1 per page.
History.—ss. 26, 30, ch. 82-182; s. 29, ch. 90-344; ss. 8, 98, ch. 92-289; s. 212, ch. 96-406.
Note.—Former s. 395.008.

Structure Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes

Title XXIX - Public Health

Chapter 395 - Hospital Licensing and Regulation

Part I - Hospitals and Other Licensed Facilities (Ss. 395.001-395.3041)

395.001 - Legislative intent.

395.002 - Definitions.

395.003 - Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation.

395.004 - Application for license; fees.

395.0056 - Litigation notice requirement.

395.009 - Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results; prerequisite for issuance or renewal of license.

395.0091 - Alternate-site testing.

395.0161 - Licensure inspection.

395.0162 - Inspection reports.

395.0163 - Construction inspections; plan submission and approval; fees.

395.0185 - Rebates prohibited; penalties.

395.0191 - Staff membership and clinical privileges.

395.0192 - Duty to notify physicians.

395.0193 - Licensed facilities; peer review; disciplinary powers; agency or partnership with physicians.

395.0195 - Access of chiropractic physicians to diagnostic reports.

395.0197 - Internal risk management program.

395.1011 - Identification, segregation, and separation of biomedical waste.

395.1012 - Patient safety.

395.1021 - Treatment of sexual assault victims.

395.1023 - Child abuse and neglect cases; duties.

395.1024 - Patients consenting to adoptions; protocols.

395.1025 - Infectious diseases; notification.

395.1027 - Regional poison control centers.

395.1031 - Emergency medical services; communication.

395.1041 - Access to and ensurance of emergency services; transfers; patient rights; diversion programs; reports of controlled substance overdoses.

395.1051 - Duty to notify patients.

395.1052 - Patient access to primary care and specialty providers; notification.

395.1053 - Postpartum education.

395.1054 - Birthing quality improvement initiatives.

395.1055 - Rules and enforcement.

395.1056 - Plan components addressing a hospital’s response to terrorism; public records exemption; public meetings exemption.

395.106 - Risk pooling by certain hospitals and hospital systems.

395.1061 - Professional liability coverage.

395.1065 - Criminal and administrative penalties; moratorium.

395.107 - Facilities; publishing and posting schedule of charges; penalties.

395.10973 - Powers and duties of the agency.

395.2050 - Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; certification for procurement activities; death records review.

395.301 - Price transparency; itemized patient statement or bill; patient admission status notification.

395.3015 - Patient records; form and content.

395.302 - Patient records; penalties for alteration.

395.3025 - Patient and personnel records; copies; examination.

395.3035 - Confidentiality of hospital records and meetings.

395.3036 - Confidentiality of records and meetings of entities that lease public hospitals or other public health care facilities.

395.3037 - Definitions.

395.3038 - State-listed stroke centers; notification of hospitals.

395.30381 - Statewide stroke registry.

395.3039 - Advertising restrictions.

395.3041 - Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center.