Florida Statutes Chapter 395 — HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION

From the Legislature's 2026 edition, which includes changes effective through January 1, 2027. Later effective dates are retained in each section's source notes.

Title XXIX

• § 395.001 — Legislative intent.
• § 395.002 — Definitions.
• § 395.003 — Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation.
• § 395.004 — Application for license; fees.
• § 395.0056 — Litigation notice requirement.
• § 395.009 — Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results; prerequisite for issuance or renewal of license.
• § 395.0091 — Alternate-site testing.
• § 395.0161 — Licensure inspection.
• § 395.0162 — Inspection reports.
• § 395.0163 — Construction inspections; plan submission and approval; fees.
• § 395.0185 — Rebates prohibited; penalties.
• § 395.0191 — Staff membership and clinical privileges.
• § 395.0192 — Duty to notify physicians.
• § 395.0193 — Licensed facilities; peer review; disciplinary powers; agency or partnership with physicians.
• § 395.0195 — Access of chiropractic physicians to diagnostic reports.
• § 395.0197 — Internal risk management program.
• § 395.1011 — Identification, segregation, and separation of biomedical waste.
• § 395.1012 — Patient safety.
• § 395.1021 — Treatment of sexual assault victims.
• § 395.1023 — Child abuse and neglect cases; duties.
• § 395.1024 — Patients consenting to adoptions; protocols.
• § 395.1025 — Infectious diseases; notification.
• § 395.1027 — Regional poison control centers.
• § 395.1031 — Emergency medical services; communication.
• § 395.1041 — Access to and ensurance of emergency services; transfers; patient rights; diversion programs; reports of controlled substance overdoses.
• § 395.1042 — Fentanyl testing.
• § 395.1051 — Duty to notify patients.
• § 395.1052 — Patient access to primary care and specialty providers; notification.
• § 395.1053 — Postpartum education.
• § 395.1054 — Birthing quality improvement initiatives.
• § 395.1055 — Rules and enforcement.
• § 395.1056 — Plan components addressing a hospital’s response to terrorism; public records exemption; public meetings exemption.
• § 395.1057 — Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives.
• § 395.106 — Risk pooling by certain hospitals and hospital systems.
• § 395.1061 — Professional liability coverage.
• § 395.1065 — Criminal and administrative penalties; moratorium.
• § 395.107 — Facilities; publishing and posting schedule of charges; penalties.
• § 395.10973 — Powers and duties of the agency.
• § 395.2050 — Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; certification for procurement activities; death records review.
• § 395.301 — Price transparency; itemized patient statement or bill; patient admission status notification.
• § 395.3011 — Billing and collection activities.
• § 395.3015 — Patient records; form and content.
• § 395.302 — Patient records; penalties for alteration.
• § 395.3025 — Patient and personnel records; copies; examination.
• § 395.3027 — Patient immigration status data collection.
• § 395.3035 — Confidentiality of hospital records and meetings.
• § 395.3036 — Confidentiality of records and meetings of entities that lease public hospitals or other public health care facilities.
• § 395.3037 — Definitions.
• § 395.3038 — State-listed stroke centers; notification of hospitals.
• § 395.30381 — Statewide stroke registry.
• § 395.3039 — Advertising restrictions.
• § 395.3041 — Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center.
• § 395.3042 — Statewide venous thromboembolism registry.
• § 395.40 — Legislative findings and intent.
• § 395.4001 — Definitions.
• § 395.401 — Trauma services system plans; approval of trauma centers and pediatric trauma centers; procedures; renewal.
• § 395.4015 — State regional trauma planning; trauma regions.
• § 395.402 — Trauma service areas; number and location of trauma centers.
• § 395.4025 — Trauma centers; selection; quality assurance; records.
• § 395.403 — Reimbursement of trauma centers.
• § 395.4036 — Trauma payments.
• § 395.404 — Reporting of trauma data; report to National Trauma Data Bank.
• § 395.4045 — Emergency medical service providers; trauma transport protocols; transport of trauma alert victims to trauma centers; interfacility transfer.
• § 395.405 — Rulemaking.
• § 395.50 — Quality assurance activities of trauma agencies.
• § 395.51 — Confidentiality and quality assurance activities of trauma agencies.
• § 395.602 — Rural hospitals.
• § 395.603 — Rural hospital impact statement.
• § 395.6061 — Rural hospital capital improvement.
• § 395.607 — Rural emergency hospitals.
• § 395.701 — Annual assessments on net operating revenues for inpatient and outpatient services to fund public medical assistance; administrative fines for failure to pay assessments when due; exemption.
• § 395.7016 — Annual appropriation.
• § 395.7017 — Rulemaking authority.
• § 395.805 — Definitions.
• § 395.806 — Designation of family practice teaching hospitals.
• § 395.807 — Retention of family practice residents.
• § 395.901 — Definitions; legislative findings and intent.
• § 395.902 — Behavioral health teaching hospitals.
• § 395.903 — Behavioral Health Teaching Hospital grant program.