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Healthcare Licensing and Surveys

Healthcare Licensing and Surveys (HLS) assures that residents and patients receive quality care from healthcare facilities required to be licensed by the State of Wyoming. HLS also promotes health and safety through on-site inspections and complaint investigations.

Contact Info:

2300 Capitol Avenue, Suite 510
Cheyenne, WY 82002
(307) 777-7123
Fax: (307) 777-7127
wdh-ohls@wyo.gov

S & C/QSO Memos 2023

  • QSO: 23-01-NH-Revisions to Special Focus Facility (SFF) Program
  • QSO: 23-02-ALL-Revised Guidance for Staff Vaccination Requirements
  • QSO: 23-03-ALL-The Importance of Timely Use of COVID-19 Therapeutics
  • QSO: 23-04-Hospitals-Workplace Violence-Hospitals
  • QSO: 23-05-NH-Updates to the Nursing Home Care Compare Website and Five Star Quality Rating System: Adjusting Quality Measure Ratings Based on Erroneous Schizophrenia Coding, and Posting Citations Under Dispute
  • QSO: 23-06-ALL-Provider and Supplier Compliance Education Through Quality in Focus (QIF) Trainings
  • QSO: 23-07-REH-Guidance for Rural Emergency Hospital Provisions, Conversion Process and Conditions of Participation
  • QSO: 23-08-HOSPICE-Revisions to Hospice-Appendix M of the State Operations Manual and the Hospice Basic Surveyor Training
  • QSO: 23-09-Hospitals-Revision to State Operations Manual (SOM), Hospital Appendix A – Interpretive Guidelines for 42 CFR 482.21, Quality Assessment & Performance Improvement
    (QAPI) Program
  • QSO: 23-10-NH-Strengthened Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies and Quality Improvement Activities in Nursing Homes
  • QSO: 23-11-LSC-Categorical Waiver – Health Care Microgrid Systems (HCMSs)
  • QSO: 23-12-RHC-Interim CMS Rural Health Clinic (RHC) Rural Location Determinations due to Census Bureau (CB) Regulatory Changes
  • QSO-23-13-ALLfinal2-Guidance for the Expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE)
  • QSO 23-14-AO.CLIAcombined-FY 2021 Report to Congress (RTC): Review of Medicare’s Program Oversight of accrediting Organizations (AOs) and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Validation Program
  • QSO-23-15-CLIA-Clicical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Post-Public Health Emergency (PHE) Guidance
  • QSO-23-16-Hospitals– Requirements for Hospital Discharges to Post-Acute Care Providers
  • QSO-23-17-CAH– One-Time Change to Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Annual Average 96-hour Patient Length of Stay Calculations to Account for the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE)