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Compliance insights for assisted living owners
Articles and downloads from Dr. David Lup on service plans, AZDHS surveys, and running a deficiency-free home.
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Service Plans 101: A Plain-English Guide to Arizona Assisted Living Service Plans
What an Arizona service plan must include, how often each level of care needs an update, the 8 most common surveyor citations, and what the 2025 memory care rules actually changed.
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Directed Care vs. Behavioral Health Services: What Arizona Operators Get Wrong
Does a dementia diagnosis or a psychotropic medication mean your Arizona assisted living home needs behavioral health licensing? Usually, no — here’s the actual distinction.
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Arizona’s July 2025 Memory Care Endorsement Rules: What Changed, What Didn’t
New Memory Care Endorsement rules took effect in Arizona on July 1, 2025. Here’s what actually changed for assisted living operators — and what stayed exactly the same.
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Service Plan Update Requirements by Level of Care: A Quick Reference
How often does a service plan need to be updated in Arizona assisted living? A quick reference by level of care, plus what counts as a “significant change.”
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Why Your ADL Flowsheet Has to Match Your Service Plan (And How Most Facilities Get This Wrong)
One of the most common survey citations in Arizona assisted living isn’t a missing document — it’s two documents that don’t agree with each other. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
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The 8 Most Common Reasons Service Plans Get Cited — And How to Avoid Every One
The 8 most common reasons Arizona assisted living service plans get cited by surveyors, straight from real inspection patterns — and how to fix each one.
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Service Plan Sample
Click here to access a sample of our service plan!
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The 7 MOST Common Service Plan Deficiencies and HOW to avoid them
Click Here to download The 7 MOST Common Service Plan Deficiencies and HOW to avoid them.
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Maintaining Residential Compliance PowerPoint presentation
Click here to download Maintaining Residential Compliance PowerPoint presentation!
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Top 10 Deficiencies in Assisted Living Facilities
Click Here to download the Top 10 Deficiencies in Assisted Living Facilities
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AZDHS Article 8 Regulations
Click here to download AZDHS Article 8 Regulations
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What is our story and how it can change the way you do business
Why am I writing you? Let me start by asking you this: If you were to have a state surveyor knock on […]
