Written notice of enforcement action and plan of correction
Effective Oct 27, 2025Ark. R. 2025-27 (eff. October 27, 2025).Arkansas Code § 20-76-201; Arkansas Code § 25-10-129
(a) After a survey or inspection, the Office of Long-Term Care will provide the psychiatric residential treatment facility with a written notice for each program, which shall state:
- (1) A factual description of the conditions that constitute a violation of the standard;
(2)
- (A) The specific law or standard violated.
- (B) The written notice shall also indicate the classification of violation, if applicable, pursuant to Arkansas Code §§ 20-10-205 and 20-10-206; and
- (3) A reasonable time frame within which the violation shall be corrected.
(b)
- (1) Upon receiving the statement of deficiencies, psychiatric residential treatment facilities must provide a written corrective action plan within ten (10) business days of receipt of the written notification of statement of deficiencies, also called a CMS-2567, or “Statement of Deficiencies and Plan of Correction,” pursuant to Arkansas Code § 20-10-1902.
- (2) The office shall determine whether the proposed corrective action plan, including any proposed dates by which correction will be made, is acceptable.
(c)
- (1) The psychiatric residential treatment facility must post the statement of deficiencies and the psychiatric residential treatment facility’s response, and the outcome of the response from the latest survey, in a public area utilized by residents or their responsible parties and visitors.
- (2) The last twelve (12) months of deficiency notices and psychiatric residential treatment facility responses and outcomes of responses, for all surveys, shall be provided to their guardians/responsible parties, upon request.