MQA Strategic Plan Archive

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Priorities for improving public health in Florida are addressed through various plans, including collaboration with partners and internal agency priorities to help achieve a healthier Florida. In addition to participating in the Long-Range Planning Program and the Agency Strategic Plan, MQA engages in long-range planning to facilitate efficient and cost-effective regulation per section 456.005, Florida Statutes.

MQA strategic planning defines and determines its roles, priorities, and direction over three to five years. As such, the MQA Strategic Plan sets forth what MQA plans to achieve, how it will achieve its goals, and how to know whether its goals have been achieved. As a result of long-range planning, MQA, with input from staff, boards, and licensees, effectively allocates resources, plans and prioritizes activities, and continuously improves its licensure, enforcement, and information processes to benefit health care applicants, practitioners, and consumers.

Annual Reports

Required under section 456.026, Florida Statutes, the MQA Annual Report and Long-Range Plan provides health care regulatory partners and stakeholders with an overview of MQA’s efficiency and effectiveness in regulating health care practitioners and facilities in Florida. Specifically included in this report are trend analyses and information tables of MQA’s three key processes: enforcement, licensing, and information, as well as data on current and projected cash balances and adequacy of fees.

MQA also complies with long-range planning requirements outlined in section 456.005, Florida Statutes, by providing concise management reports to the boards quarterly.

Quarterly Reports

MQA’s quarterly reports include quarterly data on unlicensed activity statistics and finances, as well as health care profession complaint summaries.

Annual Regulatory Plans

Per section 120.74(1) and (2), Florida Statutes, MQA publishes its regulatory plan for administrative law records. The plan includes a listing of each law enacted or amended during the previous 12 months which creates or modifies the duties or authority of the agency and, if rulemaking is required, whether a notice of rule development has been published and its citation.

Rulemaking is the process the Department, including all health care regulatory boards, uses when it proposes to create, change, or delete rules in order to protect public health. The reports provided below show the current and previous listings of such rules since 2015.

Florida Veteran Health Heroes

Often considered “MQA’s heart piece,” this report is a tribute from the Department to the veterans, active-duty military members, and spouses who double as first responders, physical therapists, nurses, lab technicians, psychologists, dentists, and more. We call them Florida’s Veteran Health Heroes; despite taking off their uniforms, they have never stopped serving. Join us in recognizing this year’s Veteran Health Heroes by accessing the report below or at FLHealthSource.gov/OVLS.

The report, and previous issues dating back to 2014, also feature information about the evolution of military licensure pathways for health care practitioners, the impact MQA has made in streamlining licensure for those who have sacrificed the most, and various military and veteran resources.

MQA Miscellaneous Reports

The Division of Medical Quality Assurance distributes timely, accessible, and accurate information about its health care regulatory processes and professions by publishing various reports for industry partners, health care practitioners, applicants, and consumers.