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The 1998 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 400
Nursing Homes And Related Health Care Facilities
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400.0089  Agency reports.--The State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council, shall, in cooperation with the Department of Elderly Affairs, maintain a statewide uniform reporting system to collect and analyze data relating to complaints and conditions in long-term care facilities and to residents, for the purpose of identifying and resolving significant problems. The council shall submit such data as part of its annual report required pursuant to s. 400.0067(2)(h) to the Agency for Health Care Administration, the 1Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, the Statewide Human Rights Advocacy Committee, the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, the Commissioner for the United States Administration on Aging, the National Ombudsman Resource Center, and any other state or federal entities that the ombudsman determines appropriate.

History.--ss. 14, 30, ch. 93-177; s. 44, ch. 95-196.

1Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.