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All Facilities Letters - 2022

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*All Facilities Letters are listed in ascending order by release date, with updated AFLs listed directly after their original version

Bulletin Number	Facility Type Affected	Subject	Release Date
AFL 22-01	All Facilities	Centralization of Program Flexibility Application Process	01/07/2022
AFL 22-02	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Notice of Testing Supply Availability and Distribution Process	01/14/2022
AFL 22-03	General Acute Care Hospitals (GACHs)	Assembly Bill (AB) 1407 – Nurses: Implicit Bias Courses	01/26/2022
AFL 22-04	General Acute Care Hospitals (GACH) Special Hospitals (SH) Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) Congregate Living Health Facilities (CHLF) Hospice Facilities (HOFA)	Senate Bill (SB) 311 – Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act	01/26/2022
AFL 22-05	Hospices	Senate Bill (SB) 353 – Extension of Palliative Cw	01/26/2022
AFL 22-06	Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)	Annual Announcement: Online Application Period for Patient Needs Waiver (PNW) and Workforce Shortage Waiver (WSW)	01/26/2022
AFL 22-07.2 (Obsolete)	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs)	01/23/2023
AFL 22-08 (Superseded - See AFL 23-19)	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Appeal Procedures for Direct Care Service Hours Per Patient Day Penalties	02/07/2022
AFL 22-09.1 (Superseded - See AFL 23-34)	All Facilities	Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccine and Booster Recommendations for Clinically Eligible Individuals	06/14/2023
AFL 22-10	All Facilities	Guidance for Contrast Media Shortage	05/16/2022
AFL 22-11.1 (Supersedes AFL 22-11)	General Acute Care Hospitals	Health Impacts of the Infant Formula Shortage	09/16/2022
AFL 22-12	All Facilities	Updated Regulatory References to Health Care Standards of Practice	06/24/2022
AFL 22-13.1 (Obsolete)	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Mitigation Plan Recommendations for Testing of Health Care Personnel (HCP) and Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)	10/05/2022
AFL 22-14	All Facilities	Request for Interest in Serving as a Temporary Manager	06/13/2022
AFL 22-15	Hospice Agencies Hospice Facilities	Notice of Stakeholder Meeting for Hospice Regulations	06/23/2022
AFL 22-16	All Facilities	Resource Requests for Contrast Media	06/29/2022
AFL 22-17	All Facilities	Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 Health Care Facility License Fee Schedule	07/07/2022
AFL 22-18	All Facilities	Level II Extreme Heat Alert	09/01/2022
AFL 22-19	All Facilities	Tropical Storm Kay Alert	09/08/2022
AFL 22-20 (Superseded - See AFL 23-29)	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Resources for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs)	09/12/2022
AFL 22-21 (Superseded - See AFL 24-15)	Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF), and General Acute Care Hospitals (GACH) with a SNF Distinct Part (DP)	Enhanced Standard Precautions for Skilled Nursing Facilities, 2022	10/05/2022
AFL 22-22	General Acute Care Hospitals	Notice of Stakeholder Meeting for General Acute Care Hospital (GACH) Observation Service Regulations	10/24/2022
AFL 22-23.2 (Superseded - See AFL 23-30)	All Facilities	Guidance for Response to Surge in Respiratory Viruses	06/14/2023
AFL 22-24	All Facilities	Ebola Virus Disease Information and Preparedness	11/15/2022
AFL 22-25	General Acute Care Hospitals (GACHs)	Senate Bill (SB) 864 – Fentanyl Screening in GACHs	11/29/2022
AFL 22-26	Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) ICF/Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) ICF/DD Habilitative (ICF/DD-H) ICF/DD Nursing (ICF/DD-N) ICF/DD Continuous Nursing (ICF/DD-CN) Congregate Living Health Facilities (CLHF) Pediatric Day Health and Respite Care Facilities (PDHRC)	Assembly Bill (AB) 2145: Dental Services: Long-Term Care	11/29/2022
AFL 22-27	All Facilities	Facility Emergency Contact and All Facilities Letter Recipient Information	11/29/2022
AFL 22-28	Hospice Agencies	Assembly Bill (AB) 2673 – Expansion of Hospice Agency Licensure Requirements, Oversight, and Enforcement	11/29/2022
AFL 22-29	Skilled Nursing Facilities	Annual Announcement: Online Application Period for Patient Needs Waiver (PNW) and Workforce Shortage Waiver (WSW)	12/1/2022
AFL 22-30	All Facilities	Notice of Expiration of Temporary Waivers for Professional Certification Requirements for Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs)	12/6/2022
AFL 22-31 (Obsolete)	Skilled Nursing Facilities General Acute Care Hospitals	Movement of Patients/Residents in the Healthcare Continuum During Seasonal Surges and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic	12/12/2022
AFL 22-32	Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) Chronic Dialysis Clinics (CDCs) End Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Facilities (ESRDs)	Guidelines for Dialysis Care	12/12/2022
AFL 22-33.1 (Supersedes AFL 22-33)	Acute Psychiatric Hospital (APH) General Acute Care Hospital (GACH)	Guidance for Response to Surge in Respiratory Viruses Among Adult Patients	06/14/2023
AFL 22-34	All Facilities	Winter Weather Emergency Preparedness Advisory	12/15/2022

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