NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 17, 2009, the Department of Health, received a petition for Permanent Variance from subsection 64E-12.005(4), Florida Administrative Code, from Hope Hospice and Community Services, Inc., for facilities entitled HealthPark located at 9470 HealthPark Circle, Fort Myers, FL 33908, and Hospice House North located at 2430 Diplomat Parkway East, Cape Coral, FL 33909. This rule requires community based residential facilities to be well lighted, have light fixtures maintained to work as designed, fixtures kept clean, as well as in specific rooms provide 20 foot candles of illumination in all areas for observation, cleaning, and maintenance.
Comments on this petition should be filed with: Sam Power, Agency Clerk, Department of Health, Office of General Counsel, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin A02, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1703, within 14 days of this notice.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Tracy Perez, Bureau of Community Environmental Health, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, BIN A08, Tallahassee, Florida, 32399-1710, (850)245-4277.