Latest NFPA code changed to a risk-based document to reflect how healthcare is delivered

NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code was overhauled and changed from a 'standard' to a 'code'


Healthcare continues to evolve, not just for reimbursement reasons, but also for safer and improved patient care and more efficient staff use, according to an article on the Consulting-Specifying Engineer website. 

This is one reason that NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code was completely overhauled and rewritten from the 2005 edition to the 2012 edition and was changed from a "standard" to a "code," the article said.

The document changed it from an occupancy-based document to a risk-based document. A major focus is to minimize the overall patient risk, and to do so, the risk first must be assessed, no matter where the patient is treated.

Read the article.

 

 



June 24, 2014



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