Nursing home responsiveness requirements, state by state
Federal law sets the floor. Every state layers its own licensure rules on top, and they differ in ways that matter: who must be reached, how fast, and by whom. This is 566 state provisions across 51 jurisdictions, each checked against the official source and then re-checked by an independent review, mapped to the federal F-tags a surveyor cites.
Alabama14 mapped provisionsAlaska10 mapped provisionsArizona7 mapped provisionsArkansas11 mapped provisionsCalifornia13 mapped provisionsColorado9 mapped provisionsConnecticut19 mapped provisionsDelaware7 mapped provisionsDistrict of Columbia17 mapped provisionsFlorida12 mapped provisionsGeorgia14 mapped provisionsHawaii7 mapped provisionsIdaho5 mapped provisionsIllinois11 mapped provisionsIndiana12 mapped provisionsIowa13 mapped provisionsKansas7 mapped provisionsKentucky8 mapped provisionsLouisiana9 mapped provisionsMaine7 mapped provisionsMaryland14 mapped provisionsMassachusetts15 mapped provisionsMichigan14 mapped provisionsMinnesota14 mapped provisionsMississippi6 mapped provisionsMissouri17 mapped provisionsMontana10 mapped provisionsNebraska17 mapped provisionsNevada7 mapped provisionsNew Hampshire7 mapped provisionsNew Jersey9 mapped provisionsNew Mexico17 mapped provisionsNew York17 mapped provisionsNorth Carolina15 mapped provisionsNorth Dakota8 mapped provisionsOhio14 mapped provisionsOklahoma16 mapped provisionsOregon9 mapped provisionsPennsylvania12 mapped provisionsRhode Island17 mapped provisionsSouth Carolina10 mapped provisionsSouth Dakota11 mapped provisionsTennessee14 mapped provisionsTexas5 mapped provisionsUtah8 mapped provisionsVermont6 mapped provisionsVirginia13 mapped provisionsWashington12 mapped provisionsWest Virginia7 mapped provisionsWisconsin6 mapped provisionsWyoming7 mapped provisions
Every one of these depends on somebody answering
ResponseProof places scheduled, recorded, AI-scored test calls to the lines these rules govern and hands you a timestamped record built for QAPI and survey readiness.
Orientation, not legal advice. Regulations change; confirm the current text against the official source before relying on it.