The Healthcare Facility Information Center is part of the IDOH Consumer Services and Health Care Regulation Commission. The Commission serves as the survey agency for state licensing and federal certification of healthcare facilities. The Indiana Healthcare Facility Information Center is intended to provide healthcare providers with easy access to program policies pertaining to the licensing and certification of healthcare facilities.
Healthcare Facility Information Center
Healthcare Quality Improvement Project Center
The IDOH develops healthcare quality improvement projects as part of its Long-Term Care Civil Money Penalty (CMP) Program. The following are web pages for quality improvement projects developed through the CMP Program:
Program Advisory Letters
The IDOH periodically issues Program Advisories to provide information to healthcare facilities about program policies and procedures concerning the licensing of healthcare facilities. The following are current Program Advisory Letters.
Division of Acute Care Advisory Letters
| AC-2021-01-BC | Tuberculosis Prevention: Requirement for Birthing Centers |
| AC-2021-01-AB | Tuberculosis Prevention: Requirement for Abortion Clinics |
| AC-2021-01-ASC | Standing Waiver for Locating Server Storage of EMRs Off-Site |
| AC-2020-02-HOSP | COVID-19 National/State Emergency Hospital Blanket Waiver: Patient Rooms |
| AC-2020-01 HOSP | COVID-19 National/State Emergency Hospital Blanket Waiver: Conversion of Standard Patient Rooms to Negative Pressure Isolation Rooms |
| AC-2019-01-ASC | Standing Waiver for Use of NFPA 101 and NFPA 99 2012 Edition |
| AC 2019-01 HOSP | Standing Waiver for Use of NFPA 101 and NFPA 99 2012 Edition |
| AC-2011-01 ASC | Standing Waiver for Electronic Verification of Licensure, CSR Registration and DEA Registration |
| AC-2012-01 HOSP | Cardiographic Technicians and Cardiovascular Technologist Scope of Practice |
| AC-2011-01 HOSP | Standing Waiver for Electronic Verification of Licensure, CSR Registration and DEA Registration |
| AC-2011-02 HOSP | Vein Harvesting by Certified Surgical First Assistants versus Certified Surgical Technologists |
| HAI-2011-01 | Healthcare Associated Infections Reporting Rule |
Division of Long-Term Care
| LTC-2021-01-SNF/NF | Tuberculosis Prevention Requirement for Comprehensive Care Nursing Facilities | Attachment: Tuberculosis Assessment and Testing of Long-term Care Residents |
| LTC-2021-01-RES | Tuberculosis Prevention Requirement for Residential Care Nursing Facilities | Attachment: Tuberculosis Assessment and Testing of Long-term Care Residents Fact Sheet: Tuberculosis Screening and Testing of Healthcare Personnel |
| LTC-2019-01-SNF/NF | Tuberculosis Prevention Requirement for Comprehensive Care Nursing Facilities | |
| LTC-2019-01-RES | Tuberculosis Prevention Requirement for Residential Care Facilities | |
| LTC-2011-01-Revised-06-01-22 | Reporting a Reasonable Suspicion of a Crime Against a Resident of a Long-Term Care Facility |
Division of Home and Community Based Care
| AC-2019-01-HHA | Tuberculosis Prevention Requirement for Home Health Agencies |