The Office of Plans and Construction is primarily responsible for ensuring that hospitals, nursing homes, and ambulatory surgical centers and Intermediate Care Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) are safe, functional, and provide safety-to-life for the patients and residents.

Email addresses required on all Plan Review Applications. For details call Marion Hutchings, OMCI (850) 414-7463

It reviews and approves facilities' plans and specifications and surveys their construction. These licensed health care facilities must notify the Office of Plans and Construction in writing at the address below before any renovations, additions, or new facilities are created. Plans and specifications for such activities must be approved before any construction begins. Architects, engineers and other specially trained plans and construction personnel survey facilities under construction and, when necessary, write reports for required corrections to the construction before approval of the project is given.

Schedule for Calendar Years 2006 and 2007

Forms and Rules

• Plans Review Application Packet - (141kb .pdf)
• Information for Project Review Packet - (171kb .pdf)
• Protocol for HVAC Equipment Maintenance - (137kb .pdf)
• Protocol for Temporary Emergency Generator - (64kb .pdf)
• Indoor Air Quality Procedure - (98kb .pdf)
• Wild Fire Basic Emergency Temporary Protocol for Nursing Homes - (118kb .pdf)
• For current NFPA codes for Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Ambulatory Surgical Centers see Chapter 69A-3.012 FAC - (HTML)
• Florida Administrative Codes, Chapter 59A-3 (Hospitals), 4 (Nursing Homes), 5 (Ambulatory Surgical Centers) - (HTML)
• Fire Incident Reporting and Systems Failure - (510kb .pdf)
• Fire Incident Report Form - (431kb .pdf)
• NFPA Code Testing & Inspection Requirements
• 2003 Edition
• 2000 Edition
• Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan - (51kb .pdf)
• Quality Questionnaire - (482kb .pdf)
• Information for Project Review of Alternative Approaches to Life Safety - NFPA-101A - (95kb .pdf)
• Recommended Physical Plant Improvements to Existing Nursing Homes for Disaster Preparedness - (284kb .pdf)
• Emergency Mobilization Plan - (120kb .pdf)
• Emergency Resources and Emergency Management Planning Criteria
• Emergency Information Links
• Florida Building Code, Chapter 4, Section 419 (Hospitals), Section 420 (Nursing Homes), Section 421 (Ambulatory Surgical Centers) - www.floridabuilding.org