MQA Quarterly Performance Report

4 MQA Q4 2018-2019 8 Executive Summary The Quarterly Performance Report (QPR), required by section 456.005 and section 456.025(9) , Florida Statutes, offers MQA an opportunity to update its 22 health care provider boards and 4 councils, as well as all stakeholders and health care consumers, on the important work performed in health care regulation. The QPR, for the fourth quarter of the 2018-2019 fiscal year provides statutorily required information on revenue, expenditures, and performance measures. MQA upholds the Department’s mission to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, and community efforts. MQA collaborates with other stakeholder agencies at the state and federal level, and our regional investigative offices work with local officials and law enforcement agencies to stop and prevent dangerous unlicensed activity within Florida’s communities. MQA received 38,703 applications for initial licensure and issued 28,388 initial licenses in the fourth quarter. MQA received 159 complaints of unlicensed activity in the fourth quarter, issued 119 cease and desist orders to unlicensed individuals whose unregulated and illegal activity could be disfiguring or even deadly to victims, and referred 120 complaints to law enforcement for potential criminal violations.