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 712-1.28 - Electrical requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
						Adequate electrical outlets shall be provided in each patient room to
						accommodate equipment that the hospital may use for patient care without use of
						receptacle adapters. Each patient bedroom shall have at least one duplex
						electrical receptacle per bed, plus an additional receptacle on another wall.
						If electric beds are to be used, an additional receptacle is required at the
						head of each bed. Receptacles in pediatric areas shall be of the safety type.
						Duplex receptacles for general use shall be installed approximately 50 feet
						apart in corridors.
(b) Patient
						rooms shall have general lighting and night lighting. A reading light shall be
						provided for each patient.
(c)
						Areas where inhalation anesthetics are used shall conform to NFPA 99, Standard
						for Healthcare Facilities. Further details concerning this referenced material
						are contained in section
						711.2(a) of this
						Title. All anesthetizing areas must be grounded. Grounding systems need not be
						equipotential, but must be installed and maintained in each anesthetizing
						location with an isolation transformer to minimize the difference in potential
						which can occur between any conductive surface that the patient can or a person
						touching the patient contact. Isolation transformers may serve more than one
						room; however, each room must have its own branch circuit.
(d) For patients' use at each bed, nurses'
						calling stations shall be provided that will register a call from the patient
						at the nurses' station and actuate a visual signal at the patient room door,
						and in the clean workroom, soiled workroom and nourishment station of the
						nursing unit. In multicorridor nursing units, additional visible signs shall be
						installed at corridor intersections. An emergency calling station shall be
						provided convenient for patients' use at each patient toilet, bathroom or
						shower room. An emergency nurses' calling station shall be provided for nurses'
						use in each operating, delivery, recovery, emergency and intensive nursing care
						room, nurseries, supervised wards for psychiatric patients, and rooms for
						children.
(e) Fire signal systems
						consisting of an electrically supervised fire alarm system and a detection
						system shall be provided as follows:
(1) The
						fire alarm signal shall be coded to indicate fire zone of the station activated
						and shall be connected to the fire department protecting the facility or to a
						central station. Any alarm signal in the system shall sound a general alarm
						audible throughout the building.
(2) A coded fire detection system connected
						to the fire alarm system of the facility shall be provided in kitchens, boiler
						rooms and attached garages.