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| Healthcare Life Safety Compliance |
| March 2008 |
| Surveyors' focus may bend on occupancy classification |
| Correctly classifying occupancies using the Life Safety Code® (LSC) may sound like an esoteric exercise, but there are advantages to doing so.
The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) both evaluate healthcare facilities based upon how the LSC classifies the sites.
Occupancies are "the foundation of why The Joint Commission and CMS . . . come and visit," said Joshua W. Elvove, PE, CSP, FSFPE, a fire protection engineer in Aurora, CO. |
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