New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter V - Medical Facilities › Subchapter C - State Hospital Code › Article 2 - Medical Facility Construction › Part 712 - Standards Of Construction For General Hospital Facilities › Subpart 712-1 - Standards For General Hospital Construction Projects Approved Or Completed Prior To October 14, 1998 › Section 712-1.3 - Nursing units

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Nursing
						units shall consist of up to 40 certified beds. The commissioner may approve
						nursing units with additional beds, provided that patient care is not adversely
						affected and appropriate arrangements are made for patient care and
						supervision.
(b) Single bedrooms
						shall be a minimum of 100 square feet in size and multi-bed rooms shall be a
						minimum of 80 square feet per bed, exclusive of toilet enclosures, lockers,
						closets and vestibules.
(c) Patient
						beds shall not be spaced closer than three feet from each other and sides of
						beds shall be at least two feet from walls.
(d) Window sills shall not be higher than
						three feet above the floor and shall be above grade.
(e) Handwashing facilities, with other than
						hand controls, shall be provided for each patient bedroom.
(f) Each patient bedroom shall have a toilet
						directly adjacent to it. Where this is not feasible, toilets shall be provided
						in each nursing unit, in such proximity to the patient rooms served as to
						adequately provide for patient needs, in a ratio of not more than eight patient
						beds for each centralized toilet served. Water closets shall have appropriate
						grab bars.
(g) At least one
						centrally located shower or tub within each nursing unit shall be provided for
						each 20 patients, or fraction thereof, served. Bathtubs and showers shall have
						appropriate grab bars.
(h) A
						nurses' calling system shall be provided.
(i) A locker or closet shall be provided for
						each patient, to be located within or directly adjacent to each bedroom,
						sufficient in size to hold normal wearing apparel and personal
						effects.
(j) In multi-bed rooms,
						flame-retardant cubicle curtains shall be provided for each bed.
(k) Nurses' stations shall be located to
						provide adequate supervision of patient corridors. Use of a convex mirror for
						such purpose shall be permitted. A staff water closet and lavatory shall be
						located in the vicinity of the nurses' station, if such facilities cannot be
						provided directly adjacent to the nurses' station.
(l) Each nursing unit shall include a
						medication room with a sink, refrigerator, and locked storage cabinets, or a
						separate and distinct part of the clean utility room or the nurses' station
						with double-locked storage cabinets, refrigerator, and a sink, which shall be
						used to prepare and store medications.
(m) Each nursing unit shall include separate
						clean and soiled utility rooms. Clean utility room facilities shall be equipped
						with a sink with hot and cold running water and other than hand control
						faucets; a soap and paper towel dispenser; and self-closing waste receptacles.
						Clean utility room facilities shall be located in a separate area in the
						nurses' station when no other space is available.
(n) One nourishment pantry shall be provided
						on each patient floor. When no other space is available, the nourishment
						station may be included with, but shall be a separate and distinct part of, the
						nurses' station.
(o) The soiled
						utility room shall contain a handwashing sink, work counter, waste receptacle,
						and soiled linen receptacles. A clinical sink or equivalent flushing rim
						fixture shall be included, unless other satisfactory means of disposing of
						sanitary wastes are provided.
(p)
						Provision shall be made for the administration of suction and oxygen to
						patients, with built-in or portable equipment.
(q) At least one janitor's closet for each
						patient floor shall be provided.
(r) A stretcher and wheelchair parking area,
						or alcove, shall be provided on each patient floor.
(s) A minimum of one dayroom per patient
						floor shall be provided.
(t)
						Isolation rooms shall be provided on the basis of one for each 30 beds or major
						fraction thereof, unless the hospital has a separate contagious disease unit.
						Each isolation room shall provide for:
(1)
						only one patient per room;
(2) a
						lavatory within the patient room, or toilet room;
(3) a view-window for nursing
						observation;
(4) a separate toilet
						room with bath or shower; and
(5)
						an entrance from the corridor through a vestibule space, which may be a closed
						anteroom or an open passageway, with adequate facilities to maintain aseptic
						conditions including lavatory or sink. One closed anteroom may serve several
						isolation rooms.