COLORADO NHA EXAM 2026 LATEST UPDATE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A+
What is the fee for change in licensed capacity? - ANS-$360
What is the fee for a change of name? - ANS-$75
What is the renewal application late fee? - ANS-Equal to the applicable renewal license fee
including bed fees or operation/procedure room fees
What type of facilities are not required to have a Quality Management Program? - ANS-
personal care boarding homes of 19 beds or fewer and community residential homes for
persons with developmental disabilities
When is a facility required to submit to the Department a Quality Management Program? - ANS-
Within 90 days of the issuance of a license to a new facility or within 90 days of the effective
date of the regulation
What does the Quality Management program need to include: - ANS-general discription of the
types of cases, problems or risks to be reviewed and criteria for identifying potential risks
identification of the personnel or committees reponsible for coordinating quality
management activities
,Description of the method for systematically reporting information to a person designated by
the facility within a prescribed time
Description of the method for investigating and analyzing the frequency and causes of individual
problems and patterns of problems
Description of the methods for taking corrective action to address the problems, including
prevention and minimizing problems or risks
Description of the method for the follow-up of corrective action
Description of the method for coordianting all pertinent care, problem, or risk review
information with other applicable quality alssurance and/or risk management activities
Docuemntation of required quality management activities
Schedule for plan implementation not to exceed 90 days
What is there is a change to the quality management program - ANS-The facility shall submit a
description of the change to the Department prior to the implementation
What does the department's summary report for an occurence contain? - ANS-Summary of
findings including the department's conclusions
Whether any violation of licensing standards was noted or whether a deficiency notice was
issued
Whether the health care entity acted appropriately in response to the occurence
,If the investigation was not conducted off site, how was it conducted
What must a facility do with it's Access to patient medical records policy? - ANS-Submit to the
Department
Also submit any amendments made to the policy to the department
What does the assessment of the facility, used to develop a written policy regarding influeza
transmission, need to include? - ANS-number of health care workers at the facility
number of patients, residents or consumers served by the facility
whether the healthcare eneity has an ongoing employee wellness program that offers the
influenza vaccine
Whether influenza transmission from healthcare workers is addressed in the entity's infection
control policy
What precautions are taken to prevent the transmission of influeza from unvaccinated
healthcare workers
What type of education material is utilized by the entity to promote influenza immunization of
its workers
What does the influenza policy need to address? - ANS-Ensuring each employee is offered the
opportunity to receive the vaccine
, Maintaining recors of each employee's annual immunization, declination or exemption
Ensuring that all the licensee's employees are provided information regarding:
benefits and risks
availabiltiy of vaccine
importance of adhering to standard precautions
What is the governing body responsible for - ANS-provide the necessary facilties, qualified
personnel and services to meet the total needs of the facility's residents
appoint for the facility a full-time administrator, and delegate to that officer the executive
authority and full responsibility for day-to-day administration of the facility
the performance of all persons providing services within the facility
When does the dietary supervisor need to prepare an initial nutritional history and assessment
for each resident - ANS-within two weeks of admission
What does the assessment and nutritional history done by the dietary supervisor need to
include - ANS-special needs, likes and dislikes nutritional status and need for adaptive cutlery
and dishes
who evaluates the resident regarding the suitability of the resident to be fed and hydrated by a
feeding assistant? - ANS-interdisciplinary team
who needs to authenticate medical histories and physical examinations - ANS-attending
physician
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A+
What is the fee for change in licensed capacity? - ANS-$360
What is the fee for a change of name? - ANS-$75
What is the renewal application late fee? - ANS-Equal to the applicable renewal license fee
including bed fees or operation/procedure room fees
What type of facilities are not required to have a Quality Management Program? - ANS-
personal care boarding homes of 19 beds or fewer and community residential homes for
persons with developmental disabilities
When is a facility required to submit to the Department a Quality Management Program? - ANS-
Within 90 days of the issuance of a license to a new facility or within 90 days of the effective
date of the regulation
What does the Quality Management program need to include: - ANS-general discription of the
types of cases, problems or risks to be reviewed and criteria for identifying potential risks
identification of the personnel or committees reponsible for coordinating quality
management activities
,Description of the method for systematically reporting information to a person designated by
the facility within a prescribed time
Description of the method for investigating and analyzing the frequency and causes of individual
problems and patterns of problems
Description of the methods for taking corrective action to address the problems, including
prevention and minimizing problems or risks
Description of the method for the follow-up of corrective action
Description of the method for coordianting all pertinent care, problem, or risk review
information with other applicable quality alssurance and/or risk management activities
Docuemntation of required quality management activities
Schedule for plan implementation not to exceed 90 days
What is there is a change to the quality management program - ANS-The facility shall submit a
description of the change to the Department prior to the implementation
What does the department's summary report for an occurence contain? - ANS-Summary of
findings including the department's conclusions
Whether any violation of licensing standards was noted or whether a deficiency notice was
issued
Whether the health care entity acted appropriately in response to the occurence
,If the investigation was not conducted off site, how was it conducted
What must a facility do with it's Access to patient medical records policy? - ANS-Submit to the
Department
Also submit any amendments made to the policy to the department
What does the assessment of the facility, used to develop a written policy regarding influeza
transmission, need to include? - ANS-number of health care workers at the facility
number of patients, residents or consumers served by the facility
whether the healthcare eneity has an ongoing employee wellness program that offers the
influenza vaccine
Whether influenza transmission from healthcare workers is addressed in the entity's infection
control policy
What precautions are taken to prevent the transmission of influeza from unvaccinated
healthcare workers
What type of education material is utilized by the entity to promote influenza immunization of
its workers
What does the influenza policy need to address? - ANS-Ensuring each employee is offered the
opportunity to receive the vaccine
, Maintaining recors of each employee's annual immunization, declination or exemption
Ensuring that all the licensee's employees are provided information regarding:
benefits and risks
availabiltiy of vaccine
importance of adhering to standard precautions
What is the governing body responsible for - ANS-provide the necessary facilties, qualified
personnel and services to meet the total needs of the facility's residents
appoint for the facility a full-time administrator, and delegate to that officer the executive
authority and full responsibility for day-to-day administration of the facility
the performance of all persons providing services within the facility
When does the dietary supervisor need to prepare an initial nutritional history and assessment
for each resident - ANS-within two weeks of admission
What does the assessment and nutritional history done by the dietary supervisor need to
include - ANS-special needs, likes and dislikes nutritional status and need for adaptive cutlery
and dishes
who evaluates the resident regarding the suitability of the resident to be fed and hydrated by a
feeding assistant? - ANS-interdisciplinary team
who needs to authenticate medical histories and physical examinations - ANS-attending
physician