2008 Florida Code
TITLE XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 395 HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION
PART I HOSPITALS AND OTHER LICENSED FACILITIES (ss. 395.001-395.3041)
395.1012 Patient safety.
395.1012 Patient safety.--
(1) Each licensed facility must adopt a patient safety plan. A plan adopted to implement the requirements of 42 C.F.R. part 482.21 shall be deemed to comply with this requirement.
(2) Each licensed facility shall appoint a patient safety officer and a patient safety committee, which shall include at least one person who is neither employed by nor practicing in the facility, for the purpose of promoting the health and safety of patients, reviewing and evaluating the quality of patient safety measures used by the facility, and assisting in the implementation of the facility patient safety plan.
History.--s. 6, ch. 2003-416.
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