The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) Health Care Quality Resource Center is intended to provide resources and information to assist health care facilities in providing quality health care. The information may also be educational to patients and families who wish to learn more about care issues.
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:
Health Care Facility Information Center
The IDOH serves as the health care facility licensing and certification agency. The Health Care Facility Information Centers are intended to provide information about regulatory requirements. The following are Health Care Facility Information Centers currently available:
Division of Long Term Care
Program Advisory Letters
The IDOH periodically issues Program Advisories to provide information to health care facilities about program policies and procedures concerning the licensing of health care 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 |
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 |
Health Care Quality Resource Centers
The Health Care Quality Resource Centers are intended to provide tools and resources about a health care topic that may be used by health care facilities in quality improvement projects. The following are Health Care Quality Resource Centers currently available. To view a Resource Center, select the topic.
- Abortion Information Center
- Abuse and Neglect Resource Center
- Advance Directives Resource Center
- Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia Resource Center
- Care Coordination and Transitions Resource Center
- Emergency Preparedness Resource Center
- Expressive Arts
- Falls Prevention Resource Center
- Healthcare Associated Infections Resource Center
- Incontinence Care Resource Center
- Infection Prevention
- Investigative Strategies
- Life Safety Code Resource Center
- Nutrition Resource Center
- Palliative Care Information Center
- Perinatal Hospice Information Center
- Pressure Ulcer (bed sores) Resource Center
- Restraints Resource Center
- Severe Mental Illness Resource Center
- Staffing Strategies Resource Center