Licensing and certification

All Facilities Letters - Released 2012

Bulletin Number	Facility Type Affected	Subject	Release Date
AFL 12-01	Long-Term Health Care Facilities, Hospices	Elder Justice Act Reporting Requirements (Revises AFL 11-40)	03/23/2012
AFL 12-03	All Home Health Agencies	Program Flexibility for Home Health Agencies (HHA) Nursing Experience Requirements	03/26/2012
AFL 12-05	General Acute Care Hospitals, Acute Psychiatric Hospitals, Special Hospitals	Telemedicine Provider (Revises AFL 11-33)	01/25/2012
AFL 12-06	Skilled Nursing Facilities, Intermediate Care Facilities, Nursing Facilities	Changes to Health and Safety Code Section 1261.6 Regarding Automated Dispensing Cabinets (also known as Automated Drug Delivery Systems)	01/27/2012
AFL 12-07	Adult Day Health Care Centers	Changes in Adult Day Health Care Center (ADHC) licensure	02/23/2012
AFL 12-08 (Unavailable)	Long Term Care Facilities	Increase in Class “B” Citation Penalties, Elimination of Citation Review Conference (CRC) Process, and Recommendations of Federal Enforcement Remedies	03/14/2012
AFL 12-09	All Health Facilities Covered by the Daly City District Office	New Name and Relocation of the Daly City District Office Licensing and Certification Program	01/20/2012
AFL 12-10	General Acute Care Hospitals	Sleep Study Lab Staffing (Revises AFL 10-22)	02/27/2012
AFL 12-12 (Unavailable)	Skilled Nursing Facilities	California MDS Nuggets “January, 2012” Newsletter	02/06/2012
AFL 12-13 (Unavailable)	General Acute Care Hospitals Critical Access Hospitals with Psychiatric or Rehabilitative Distinct Part Units	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Restraint/Seclusion Death Reporting Requirements (Revises AFL 09-23)	04/26/2012
AFL 12-15	General Acute Care Hospitals	Revised Requirements for Reporting Surgical Site Infections	03/14/2012
AFL 12-16	General Acute Care Hospitals	Language Assistance Services	05/11/2012
AFL 12-17	General Acute Care Hospitals, Acute Psychiatric Hospitals	Care and Treatment of Psychiatric Emergency Medical Conditions	05/17/2012
AFL 12-18	Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Facilities	Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities; Notice of Closure	06/01/2012
AFL 12-19 (Pending)	All Rehabilitation Agencies (OPT/SPs)	Request for Annual Identification of Outpatient Physical Therapy/Speech Pathology Provider (OPT/SP) Facilities and Extension Locations and Relocations or Terminations of OPT/SP Facilities	04/02/2012
AFL 12-20 (Unavailable)	All Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (CORF)	Request for Identification of CORF Locations	04/02/2012
AFL 12-21 (Unavailable)	All Health Care Facilities Licensed by the California Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Program	Proposed Fiscal Year 2012/13 Health Facility Licensing Fee Report	03/22/2012
AFL 12-22	Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Facilities	Independent Informal Dispute Resolutions (IIDRs)	09/17/2012
AFL 12-23	All Certified Long-Term Care Facilities, as follows: Skilled Nursing Facilities (including Distinct Parts); Intermediate Care Facilities (including Distinct Parts); Intermediate Care Facilities/Developmentally Disabled; Intermediate Care Facilities/Developmentally Disabled - Habilitative; Intermediate Care Facilities/Developmentally Disabled - Nursing; Intermediate Care Facilities/Developmentally Disabled - Continuous Nursing; Nursing Facilities	Federal Complaint Process and Plans of Correction	05/22/2012
AFL 12-24	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Employee Records	05/15/2012
AFL 12-25	All Health Care Facilities	Hot Summer Weather Advisory	05/06/2012
AFL 12-26 (Unavailable)	All Clinics, Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs)	Outpatient Settings Adverse Event Reporting Requirements	05/18/2012
AFL 12-27 (Unavailable)	Skilled Nursing Facilities	California MDS Nuggets "May, 2012" Newsletter	05/31/2012
AFL 12-28	All Health Care Facilities	Curlin Intravenous (IV) Administration Sets: Recall Due to Possible Health Risk	05/25/2012
AFL 12-29 (Unavailable)	All Certified Long Term Health Care Facilities	Local Contact Agencies	05/31/2012
AFL 12-30	General Acute Care Hospitals, Primary Care Clinics	Nurse Staffing in Outpatient Supplemental Service and Licensed Primary Care Clinics	09/11/2012
AFL 12-32 (Unavailable)	All Licensed Health Facilities and Licensed Clinics	Sterilization Consent Form (PM 284) (Supersedes AFL 07-16)	09/31/2012
AFL 12-33 (Unavailable)	All Health Care Facilities Licensed By the California Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Program Under California Health and Safety Code Section 1266	Fiscal Year (FY) 2012-2013 License Renewal Fee Schedule	07/09/2012
AFL 12-34 (Unavailable)	General Acute Care Hospitals; Critical Access Hospitals with Psychiatric or Rehabilitative Distinct Part Units	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Restraint/Seclusion Death Reporting Requirements (Supersedes AFL 12-13)	08/10/2012
AFL 12-35 (Unavailable)	All Facilities	Hospira Injectable Drug Products: Recall – Visible Particulates from Defective Glass Vials	07/16/2012
AFL 12-36	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Physical Restraint Reduction in Skilled Nursing Facilities	09/25/2012
AFL 12-37	All State and Other Governmental Health Facilities Licensed by the California Department of Public Health, Center for Health Care Quality, Licensing and Certification Program	Granting Waivers or Extensions for Professional Licensure of Employees at State or Other Governmental Licensed Health Facilities (Revises AFL 09-08)	09/11/2012
AFL 12-38 (Unavailable)	All Licensed and Certified Facilities, Clinics or Agencies	Medi-Cal Provider-Preventable Conditions Reporting	10/05/2012
AFL 12-39 (Unavailable)	Skilled Nursing Facilities Intermediate Care Facilities Nursing Facilities	Standard Admission Agreement–Resident Bill of Rights, Form CDPH 327 Attachment F 12-point font (9/12)	12/10/2012
AFL 12-41 (Pending)	All Facilities	RECALL: Methylprednisolone Acetate Injections Related to Multistate Meningitis Outbreak (Revises AFL 12-41)	10/15/2012
AFL 12-43	All Facilities	Fungal Meningitis Outbreak: Additional Patient Notification Advised	10/26/2012
AFL 12-44	Ambulatory Surgical Centers	Wholesale/Dispensary Licenses	10/20/2012
AFL 12-45 (Unavailable)	Primary Care Clinics (PCCs) General Acute Care Hospitals (GACHs) Acute Psychiatric Hospitals (APHs) Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) Intermediate Care Facilities (ICFs) ICF – Developmentally Disabled facilities (ICF-DDs) ICF-DD-Habilitative facilities (ICF-DD-Hs) ICF-DD-Nursing facilities (ICF-DD-Ns) Correction Treatment Centers (CTCs) Chemical Dependency Recovery Hospitals (CDRHs)	Opportunities to Participate in Drug Repository and Distribution Programs (RDPs)	12/07/2012
AFL 12-46	General Acute Care Hospitals, Acute Psychiatric Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Special Hospitals	Implementation Date Extension for Incompatible Line Connectors	11/01/2012
AFL 12-47	General Acute Care Hospitals	Use of Medical Assistants in Hospital Outpatient Clinics	12/14/2012
AFL 12-48	General Acute Care Hospitals	Centralized Hospital Packaging Pharmacy	12/20/2012
AFL 12-49 (Unavailable)	General Acute Care Hospitals, Acute Psychiatric Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals with Psychiatric or Rehabilitative Distinct Part Units	Reissue of AFL 12-34 Addressing Changes to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Restraint/Seclusion Death Reporting Requirements	12/07/2012
AFL 12-50	Adult Day Health Center Congregate Living Health Facility Intermediate Care Facility Intermediate Care Facility-Developmentally Disabled Intermediate Care Facility-Developmentally Disabled-Continuous Nursing Intermediate Care Facility-Developmentally Disabled-Habilitative Intermediate Care Facility-Developmentally Disabled-Nursing Nursing Facility Skilled Nursing Facility	Revised Mandated Reporter Reporting under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act	12/19/2012
AFL 12-51	Nursing Home Administrators of: Intermediate Care Facility, Intermediate Care Facility-Developmentally Disabled, Intermediate Care Facility- Developmentally Disabled-Habilitative, Intermediate Care Facility- Developmentally Disabled-Nursing, Nursing Facilities Skilled Nursing Facilities	Nursing Home Administrator Licensing Fees	12/15/2012
AFL 12-52	All Facilities	Ameridose Issues Recall of All Products	11/07/2012
AFL 12-53	All Intermediate Care Facilities	Exemption of Small-Capacity ICF/DD-Hs, ICF/DD-Ns, and ICF/DD-CNs from the California Retail Food Code	11/30/2012
AFL 12-56	Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Facilities	California Forging Major Campaign to Improve Dementia Care and Reduce Unnecessary Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Homes	11/27/2012
AFL 12-57 (Unavailable)	Skilled Nursing Facilities	California MDS Nuggets “December 2012” Newsletter	12/28/2012