Blog spotlight: CMS allows for certain 2012 LSC standards
Hospital Safety Insider, March 15, 2012
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This one has the potential to be the game-changer we’ve been hoping (waiting) for – the emergence of the 2012 edition of the Life Safety Code® as a CMS-sanctioned regulatory standard.
Once you lay your hands on this plucky little document - the official CMS memorandum – you will see that it appears) to represent a fair degree of flexibility when it comes to, among other things, corridor storage, and the amount of combustible decorations that are allowed. One thing this likely means is that everyone’s going to be inundating NFPA for their own personal copy of the 2012 Life Safety Code® – this is going to become a go-to resource from here on out.
Now, the first thing you will notice is that there’s a lot of mention of nursing homes, and not so much of hospitals, particularly on Page 1. To that end, let me direct you toward the bottom of page 2 of the document (under the section titled “Effective Date”), which specifically indicates that the memorandum and all its components are “in effect for all applicable healthcare facilities such as Hospitals and Nursing Homes.”
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