Utah Admin. Code R432-14-4 - General Construction Patient Facilities
(1) The licensee shall ensure the facility is
designed to allow access to service areas and common areas without compromising
patient privacy.
(2) The licensee
shall ensure birth rooms and service areas are grouped to form a physically
defined service unit.
(3) The
licensee shall ensure spaces are provided for each of the required
services.
(4) The licensee shall
ensure interior finishes, lighting, and furnishings reflect a residential
rather than an institutional setting.
(5) The licensee shall ensure maximum room
occupancy is one mother and her newborn infant or infants.
(6) The licensee shall ensure windows in a
birth room with a sight line that permit observation from the exterior are
arranged or draped to ensure patient privacy.
(7) The licensee shall ensure birth rooms
provide each patient a wardrobe, closet, or locker, having minimum clearance
dimensions of 24 inches by 20 inches, suitable for hanging full-length
garments. A clothes rod and adjustable shelf shall be provided.
(8) The licensee shall ensure a toilet room
with direct access from the birth room is accessible.
(a) The toilet room shall contain a toilet
and a lavatory. A shower or tub shall be accessible to each birth room and may
be located in the toilet room.
(b)
A toilet room may serve two birth rooms.
(c) Each toilet room fixture shall be
handicap-accessible and shall have grab bars.
(9) The licensee shall ensure newborn infant
resuscitation equipment, including electrical receptacles, oxygen, and suction
are immediately available to each birth room in addition to resuscitation
equipment provided for the mother. Portable oxygen and suction equipment shall
be permitted.
(10) The licensee
shall ensure a mechanically exhausted area for storage of facility maintenance
materials and equipment is provided and may be combined with the environmental
services room.
(11) The licensee
shall ensure an examination light is readily available in each birth room.
Special surgical lighting is not required.
(12) The licensee shall ensure an emergency
lighting system is required and includes:
(a)
emergency exit signs;
(b) enough
lighting to safely exit the building; and
(c) an examination light.
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