Colorado NHA Exam Prep: Nursing Home Administrator Practice Act Licensing Exam (SCORED A+)!!

The department shall ______________ license and establish and enforce standards for the operation of all healthcare facilities except those ______________________________________________. - ANSWER - Annually; wholly owned and operated by any governmental unit or agency. The department shall make inspections without prior notice. Such inspections shall be made only between the hours of____________________. - ANSWER - 7am to 7pm. The department shall extend the survey cycle or conducted a tiered inspection or survey of a health facility that has been: - ANSWER - 1) Licensed for at least three years 2) has had no enforcement activity taken against it. 3) has no patterns of deficient practice 4)has no substantiated complaints resulting in the discovery of significant deficiencies that may negatively affect the life, health, or safety of the consumer in the last three years. The department may expand the scope of the inspection or survey to an extended or full survey if they find __________________________ during the inspection. - ANSWER - deficient practices The department shall establish a schedule for an extended survey cycle or a tiered inspection or survey in order to: - ANSWER - 1) reduce the time needed for costs of licensure inspections for both the department and the licensed facility. 2) reduce the number, frequency, and duration of on-site inspections. 3) reduce the scope of data and information that health facilities are required to submit or provide in connection with the licensure inspection. The department shall not cite as a deficiency an deficiency from an isolated event identified by the department that can effectively be ____________________________________________ of the health facility, unless the deficiency caused ______________________________________, _____________________________________, or was due to __________________________________. - ANSWER - remedied during the survey or inspection; harm or potential for harm, created a life threatening emergency, abuse or neglect. All licenses issues by the department must contain the __________________ and cover a ______