Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-17 - Nursing Homes › Section 3701-17-22 - General building and sanitation requirements; overhead paging

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The building or
			 buildings in which a nursing home is located shall be in compliance with the
			 applicable provisions of the Ohio building code and shall have a certificate of
			 use issued by the appropriate building authority.
(B) All plumbing shall be so installed and
			 maintained as to be free of leakage and odors and as to reasonably insure
			 adequate health and safety protection. Plumbing fixtures in nursing homes or
			 additions to nursing homes constructed, erected, altered or relocated after
			 September 10, 1984, and plumbing fixtures in buildings converted into nursing
			 homes after September 10, 1984 shall conform to the applicable provisions of
			 the Ohio building code.
(C)
			 Lavatories, bathing facilities, and shower facilities shall be supplied with
			 hot and cold running water and shall be regulated by approved devices for
			 temperature control. The hot water temperature in areas used by residents shall
			 be a minimum of one hundred five degrees Fahrenheit and not exceed one hundred
			 and twenty degrees Fahrenheit.
(D)
			 The nursing home's water supply shall be adequate in quantity and of suitable
			 chemical and bacteriological quality for drinking, culinary, and cleaning
			 purposes. The water supply for a nursing home shall be taken from a public
			 supply, if available. If from a source of supply other than a public supply,
			 the water supply shall comply with all applicable local and state regulations
			 regarding the construction, development, installation, alteration, and use of
			 private water systems.
(E) All
			 liquid wastes from nursing homes shall be discharged into a public sanitary
			 sewerage system, if available. Where not available, such wastes shall be
			 discharged into a sewage disposal system that meets all applicable local and
			 state regulations regarding the construction, development, installation,
			 alteration, and use of private household sewage disposal systems. The nursing
			 home shall properly maintain its sewage disposal system in good, safe working
			 condition.
(F) Heating, cooling,
			 electrical, and other building service equipment shall be maintained in good
			 working and safe condition.
(G) The
			 buildings and grounds shall be maintained in a clean and orderly
			 manner.
(H) All garbage and other
			 refuse shall be disposed of immediately after production, or shall be stored in
			 leak-proof containers with tight fitting covers until time of disposal, and all
			 wastes shall be disposed of in a satisfactory manner.
(I) Adequate measures shall be taken to
			 prevent the entrance of insects, rodents, and pests into any building used for
			 a nursing home or part thereof and to prevent their infestation of the
			 premises.
(J) The extermination of
			 insects, rodents, and pests shall be done in such a manner as not to create a
			 fire or health hazard.
(K)
								 Beginning July 1, 2015, each nursing home shall
			 prohibit the use of overhead paging within the nursing home, except that the
			 nursing home may permit the use of overhead paging for matters of urgent public
			 safety or urgent clinical operations. The nursing home shall develop a written
			 policy regarding its use of overhead paging and make the policy available to
			 staff, residents, and residents' families.
Effective: 12/8/2014
Five Year
				Review (FYR) Dates: 10/01/2016
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority:
				3721.04
Rule Amplifies: 3721.04
Prior Effective Dates:
				5/2/1966, 7/1/73, 9/10/84, 12/21/92, 10/20/01,
				4/1/12