Florida Statutes
Title XXIX - Public Health
Chapter 395 - Hospital Licensing and Regulation

395.009 - Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results; prerequisite for issuance or renewal of license. - (1) As a requirement for issuance or renewal of its...

395.0091 - Alternate-site testing. - History.—s. 27, ch. 2018-24.

395.0161 - Licensure inspection. - (1) In addition to the requirement of s. 408.811, the...

395.0162 - Inspection reports. - (1) Each licensed facility shall maintain as public information, available...

395.0163 - Construction inspections; plan submission and approval; fees. - (1)(a) The design, construction, erection, alteration, modification, repair, and demolition...

395.0185 - Rebates prohibited; penalties. - (1) It is unlawful for any person to pay or...

395.0191 - Staff membership and clinical privileges. - (1) No licensed facility, in considering and acting upon an...

395.0192 - Duty to notify physicians. - History.—s. 2, ch. 2016-113.

395.0193 - Licensed facilities; peer review; disciplinary powers; agency or partnership with physicians. - (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that good...

395.0195 - Access of chiropractic physicians to diagnostic reports. - History.—ss. 26, 30, ch. 82-182; ss. 14, 98, ch. 92-289;...

395.0197 - Internal risk management program. - (1) Every licensed facility shall, as a part of its...

395.1011 - Identification, segregation, and separation of biomedical waste. - History.—ss. 2, 4, ch. 82-125; s. 53, ch. 88-130; ss....

395.1012 - Patient safety. - (1) Each licensed facility must adopt a patient safety plan....

395.1021 - Treatment of sexual assault victims. - (1) Such gynecological, psychological, and medical services as are needed...

395.1023 - Child abuse and neglect cases; duties. - (1) Incorporate a facility policy that every staff member has...

395.1024 - Patients consenting to adoptions; protocols. - (1) Each licensed facility shall adopt a protocol that at...

395.1025 - Infectious diseases; notification. - History.—s. 1, ch. 85-157; s. 3, ch. 92-171; ss. 21,...

395.1027 - Regional poison control centers. - (1) There shall be created three certified regional poison control...

395.1031 - Emergency medical services; communication. - History.—ss. 23, 99, ch. 92-289; s. 72, ch. 95-143; s....

395.1041 - Access to and ensurance of emergency services; transfers; patient rights; diversion programs; reports of controlled substance overdoses. - (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.—The Legislature finds and declares it to be...

395.1051 - Duty to notify patients. - History.—s. 7, ch. 2003-416.

395.1052 - Patient access to primary care and specialty providers; notification. - (1) Notify each patient’s primary care provider, if any, within...

395.1053 - Postpartum education. - History.—s. 4, ch. 2013-62; s. 3, ch. 2020-79.

395.1054 - Birthing quality improvement initiatives. - History.—s. 6, ch. 2022-69.

395.1055 - Rules and enforcement. - (1) The agency shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1)...

395.1056 - Plan components addressing a hospital’s response to terrorism; public records exemption; public meetings exemption. - (1)(a) Those portions of a comprehensive emergency management plan that...

395.106 - Risk pooling by certain hospitals and hospital systems. - (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any two or...

395.1061 - Professional liability coverage. - (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) “Committee”...

395.1065 - Criminal and administrative penalties; moratorium. - (1) In addition to s. 408.812, any person establishing, conducting,...

395.107 - Facilities; publishing and posting schedule of charges; penalties. - (1) For purposes of this section, the term “facility” means:...

395.10973 - Powers and duties of the agency. - (1) Adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to...

395.2050 - Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; certification for procurement activities; death records review. - (1) Every general hospital, and every specialty hospital that offers...

395.301 - Price transparency; itemized patient statement or bill; patient admission status notification. - (1) A facility licensed under this chapter shall provide timely...

395.3015 - Patient records; form and content. - History.—ss. 26, 30, ch. 82-182; ss. 30, 98, ch. 92-289....

395.302 - Patient records; penalties for alteration. - (1) Any person who fraudulently alters, defaces, or falsifies any...

395.3025 - Patient and personnel records; copies; examination. - (1) Any licensed facility shall, upon written request, and only...

395.3035 - Confidentiality of hospital records and meetings. - (1) All meetings of a governing board of a public...

395.3036 - Confidentiality of records and meetings of entities that lease public hospitals or other public health care facilities. - (1) The public lessor that owns the public hospital or...

395.3037 - Definitions. - (1) “Department” means the Department of Health. (2) “Agency” means...

395.3038 - State-listed stroke centers; notification of hospitals. - (1) The agency shall make available on its website and...

395.30381 - Statewide stroke registry. - (1) Subject to a specific appropriation, the department shall contract...

395.3039 - Advertising restrictions. - History.—s. 4, ch. 2004-325; s. 3, ch. 2019-135.

395.3041 - Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center. - (1) By June 1 of each year, the department shall...

Part II - Trauma (Ss. 395.40-395.51)

395.40 - Legislative findings and intent. - (1) The Legislature finds that there has been a lack...

395.4001 - Definitions. - (1) “Agency” means the Agency for Health Care Administration. (2)...

395.401 - Trauma services system plans; approval of trauma centers and pediatric trauma centers; procedures; renewal. - (1)(a) The local and regional trauma agencies shall plan, implement,...

395.4015 - State regional trauma planning; trauma regions. - (1) The department shall establish a state trauma system plan....

395.402 - Trauma service areas; number and location of trauma centers. - (1) The Legislature recognizes the need for a statewide, cohesive,...

395.4025 - Trauma centers; selection; quality assurance; records. - (1) For purposes of developing a system of trauma centers,...

395.403 - Reimbursement of trauma centers. - (1) All verified trauma centers shall be considered eligible to...

395.4036 - Trauma payments. - 1(1) Recognizing the Legislature’s stated intent to provide financial support...

395.404 - Reporting of trauma data; report to National Trauma Data Bank. - (1) Each trauma center shall participate in the National Trauma...

395.4045 - Emergency medical service providers; trauma transport protocols; transport of trauma alert victims to trauma centers; interfacility transfer. - (1) Each emergency medical services provider licensed under chapter 401...

395.405 - Rulemaking. - History.—s. 7, ch. 89-275; s. 17, ch. 89-283; s. 2,...

395.50 - Quality assurance activities of trauma agencies. - (1) As used in this section, the term “entity” means...

395.51 - Confidentiality and quality assurance activities of trauma agencies. - (1) All information which is confidential by operation of law...

Part III - Rural Hospitals (Ss. 395.602-395.6061)

395.602 - Rural hospitals. - (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.— (a) The Legislature finds that...

395.603 - Rural hospital impact statement. - (1) Do the health personnel affected by the proposed action...

395.6061 - Rural hospital capital improvement. - (1) A rural hospital as defined in s. 395.602 may...

Part IV - Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund (Ss. 395.701-395.7017)

395.701 - Annual assessments on net operating revenues for inpatient and outpatient services to fund public medical assistance; administrative fines for failure to pay assessments when due; exemption. - (1) For the purposes of this section, the term: (a)...

395.7016 - Annual appropriation. - History.—s. 20, ch. 2000-256; s. 7, ch. 2020-156.

395.7017 - Rulemaking authority. - History.—s. 1, ch. 2009-55.

Part V - Family Practice Teaching Hospitals (Ss. 395.805-395.807)

395.805 - Definitions. - (1) “Agency” means the Agency for Health Care Administration. (2)...

395.806 - Designation of family practice teaching hospitals. - (1)(a) A hospital that offers a family practice residency program...

395.807 - Retention of family practice residents. - (1) A family practice teaching hospital must have a documented...

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Florida Statutes Title XXIX - Public Health Chapter 395 - Hospital Licensing and Regulation

Florida Statutes
Title XXIX - Public Health
Chapter 395 - Hospital Licensing and Regulation