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Resources for Arizona assisted living operators
Practical guides to care documentation, staff requirements, and running an assisted living home in Arizona.
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Arizona Assisted Living Survey Readiness Guide
A section-by-section walk through an ADHS survey: how surveys work, administration and personnel files, service plans, medications, emergency preparedness, directed and memory care, and the survey-day walkthrough. Each requirement is cited to the rule it comes from.
What's inside
- How surveys work
- Administration
- Personnel files
- Service plans
- Medications
- Emergency preparedness
- Directed and memory care
- Survey day
Emergency Preparedness & Evacuation Drills
Disaster plan contents, the annual review, disaster and evacuation drill frequencies, elopement drills for directed care, smoke detector and fire-safety rules, and what to keep on file under R9-10-819.
Read Staff & Training Facility OperationsEmployee Files & Hiring Checklist
What belongs in an Arizona assisted living employee file, what must happen before care starts, and how to track checks, training, renewals, and retention.
Read Resident Care Facility OperationsIncident Reporting
What has to be documented, which events require an outside report, when the 24-hour deadline applies, and how long records are kept.
Read Resident Care Staff & Training Facility OperationsSurvey Readiness Guide
A section-by-section walk through an ADHS survey: administration, personnel files, service plans, medications, emergency preparedness, directed care, memory care, and survey day itself.
Read Facility Operations Resident CareMedication Storage
Locked medication-only storage, storing according to the container, controlled substances, expired and recalled medication, and resident-room exceptions.
Read Staff & Training Facility OperationsManager Certification & Responsibilities
How Arizona certifies assisted living managers, what R9-10-803 holds them responsible for, delegation, and the two-hour records request.
Read Resident Care Staff & TrainingTB Screening Requirements
Baseline screening before an employee starts, IGRA versus the two-step skin test, prior positives, and the resident and respite deadlines.
Read Resident CareService Plan Requirements
What an Arizona service plan must contain, who takes part in writing and signing it, and the review interval for each level of care.
Read Resident Care Facility OperationsMedication Management
Administration versus assistance in self-administration, verbal orders, medication errors, and the documentation that connects them.
ReadWritten by an Arizona owner-operator, not a marketing team. Each guide cites the rule it relies on so you can read the source yourself. They describe what the rules ask for; they are not legal advice, and applying them to your home stays with your manager and governing authority.
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