What to submit for your plan review
As a healthcare facility licensed by the Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA), operating within the State of Florida and Broward County, you are required to have and maintain an updated Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) for your facility. The Facility CEMP requires annual review and approval by the Broward County Emergency Management Division staff.
The Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA) provides the comprehensive emergency management planning criteria. You are required to follow the AHCA criteria for your facility type. Please ensure you have answered all sections of the criteria. Beginning July 1st, 2023, all annual CEMP are required to be submitted to the County through the new electronic CEMP Portal. Facilities will be invited to transition into the CEMP Portal by the County CEMP Healthcare Coordinator via email (EOC-HealthCEMP@broward.org) monthly. Contact the Coordinator should you have any questions or require additional information.
New facilities in Broward County are required to submit their plans, Comprehensive Emergency management Plan (CEMP) and/or Emergency Environmental Control Plan (EECP), to contact Broward County, EOC-HealthCEMP@broward.org, and request additional information. Provide Facility Administrator/Owner, proposed name of facility, type of facility, phone number, and email address. County will contact and provide additional information to register for the electronic CEMP Portal.
AHCA CEMP Criteria
The following links will provide you the current AHCA criteria to be used in the preparation of your facility CEMP plan. Please select your facility type to be linked to the appropriate criteria:
The following items are required when submitting your plan for review in the CEMP Portal:
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Using the appropriate AHCA criteria above, create an electronic response to each question in the AHCA criteria. These will then be uploaded into the electronic CEMP Portal.
All supporting documentation as listed on the last page of the AHCA criteria, under Annexes will also be required and need to be saved as .PDF documents. How to submit your plan
The County is not accepting any CEMP/EECP Plans in hardcopy format. All annual submittals are to be done electronically via the CEMP Portal. Existing licensed facilities are invited to transition into the CEMP Portal by the County CEMP Healthcare Coordinator. The invitation is conducted via email and provides dates when the facility can register to attend the required CEMP Portal Workshop before starting to create/upload their plans in the Portal. Contact the County CEMP Healthcare Coordinator (EOC-HealthCEMP@browar.org) should you have any questions.
- Starting May 31st, 2023 do not drop off or mail in your plan
- Do not fax or e-mail your plan
- Await the email invitation to transition to the new CEMP Portal or email the CEMP Coordinator requesting additional information.
- Once the plan has been uploaded into the Portal, the person who is assigned to review your plan will reach out to you via e-mail, during the review process.
- Allow up to 60 days for your plan to be reviewed.
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