The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is responsible for licensing and regulating health care facilities. In Florida, AHCA is also responsible for AHCA Medicaid. For AHCA/Medicaid information, click here.

The AHCA Background Screening Unit reviews the Level 2 criminal history results for all background screenings submitted as part of the employment process for health care providers.​​

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For more information on AHCA, visit: https://ahca.myflorida.com/

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Some of the entities licensed and regulated by AHCA are:

• Adult Day Care Centers

• Adult Family Care Homes

• Ambulatory Surgery Centers

• Assisted Living Facilities

• Birth Centers

• Clinical Laboratories Performing Non-waived Testing

• Community Mental Health Crisis Stabilization Units

• Drug Free Workplace

• Healthcare Clinics

• Healthcare Service Pools

• Home Health Agencies

• Home Medical Equipment Providers

• Homemaker/Sitter/Companion

• Homes for Special Services

• Hospice

• Hospitals

• Intermediate Care Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled

• Multiphasic Health Testing Centers

• Nurse Registries

• Nursing Homes

• Organ Procurement Organizations, Tissue Banks, Eye Banks

• Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care

• Residential Treatment Centers for Children and Adolescents

• Residential Treatment Facilities

• Risk Managers

• Short Term Residential Treatment Facilities

• Transitional Living Facilities