Office of Facilities Regulation

Mission

To monitor and ensure that all health care facilities provide the highest quality of care and services in a clean and safe environment.

What We Do

We manage and coordinate the licensing of health care facilities and operate a public-centered, responsive and uniform enforcement program in accordance with state licensing standards. We also certify facilities that provide services for the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs (indicated by *).

What We License

Acute care & Residential Programs with beds

• Hospitals*
• Rehabilitation Hospital Centers*
• Nursing Facilities*
• Assisted Living Residences
• Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded Group Homes*
• Continuing Care Providers
• Patient Safety Organizations

Health care service providers

• Adult Day Care
• Home Nursing Care*
• Home Care
• Nursing Service Agencies Hospice*
• In-state & out-of-state Clinical Laboratories*
• Blood Testing/Screening and Drawing Stations*
• Organized Ambulatory Care *
• Ambulatory Surgical Centers*
• Ambulatory/Surgery Center, Physician/Podiatry
• Kidney Disease Centers*
• School-based Health Centers
• Freestanding Emergency Care Facilities
• X-Ray Facilities & Mobil X-ray*
• Tanning Facilities
• Radioactive Materials Licensees
• Tattoo & Body Piercing Practitioners and Establishments

Federally certified only providers

• Federally Qualified Health Centers*
• Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabiliatation Facilities*
• Outpatient Physical Therapy Providers*