The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission will begin surveying to the 2012 version of the National Fire Protection Association’s 101 Life Safety Code as of July 5, according to an article on the Joint Commission website.
The final rule requires hospitals to follow the 2012 versions of both the LS Code and the NFPA 99 Health Care Facilities Code referenced in the LS Code.
The rule adopts most of the proposals that CMS made in 2014, however, CMS removed a proposed requirement for hospitals to install smoke-purging systems in operating rooms.
A Joint Commission official called the proposal was unnecessary and prohibitively expensive
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