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Burns/prevention & control , Fires/prevention & control , Hospital Administration/methods , Burns/mortality , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Germany , Hospital Administration/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Insurance, Liability/legislation & jurisprudence , Risk Assessment/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety Management/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety Management/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Burns/prevention & control , Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/prevention & control , Hospital Administration/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety Management/legislation & jurisprudence , Burns/mortality , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Germany , Hospital Design and Construction/legislation & jurisprudence , Hospital Design and Construction/standards , Humans , Safety Management/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/prevention & control , Hospital Design and Construction/legislation & jurisprudence , Patient Safety/legislation & jurisprudence , Risk Assessment/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety Management/legislation & jurisprudence , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Germany , HumansABSTRACT
This final rule will amend the fire safety standards for Medicare and Medicaid participating hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), long-term care facilities, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF-IID), ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), hospices which provide inpatient services, religious non-medical health care institutions (RNHCIs), and programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) facilities. Further, this final rule will adopt the 2012 edition of the Life Safety Code (LSC) and eliminate references in our regulations to all earlier editions of the Life Safety Code. It will also adopt the 2012 edition of the Health Care Facilities Code, with some exceptions.
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Facility Regulation and Control/legislation & jurisprudence , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Health Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , United StatesSubject(s)
Long-Term Care/economics , Long-Term Care/legislation & jurisprudence , Patient Safety/legislation & jurisprudence , Quality of Health Care/economics , Quality of Health Care/legislation & jurisprudence , Antipsychotic Agents/therapeutic use , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. , Certification , Civil Defense , Emergencies , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fraud/legislation & jurisprudence , Fraud/prevention & control , Hospitalization , Humans , Infection Control/legislation & jurisprudence , Licensure , Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Nursing Homes/legislation & jurisprudence , Physical Abuse/legislation & jurisprudence , Physical Abuse/prevention & control , Privacy/legislation & jurisprudence , Quality Indicators, Health Care , State Government , United StatesABSTRACT
Home fires account for 85% of fire deaths in the United States, the majority in 1- or 2-family homes lacking fire sprinklers. Since 1978, however, a grassroots movement has successfully promoted more than 360 local ordinances mandating sprinklers in all new residential construction, including 1- and 2-family homes. The homebuilding industry has responded by seeking state preemption of local authority, a strategy previously used by other industries concerned about protecting their profits. From 2009 through 2011, 13 states adopted laws eliminating or limiting local authority over residential fire sprinklers. This study of the residential sprinkler movement adds to our understanding of grassroots public health movements and provides additional evidence that preemption can have a negative impact on public health and safety.
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Community Networks , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Government Regulation , Housing , Building Codes/legislation & jurisprudence , Colorado , Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/prevention & control , Lobbying , Organizational Case Studies , Politics , Public HealthSubject(s)
Fire Extinguishing Systems/standards , Residential Facilities/standards , Safety Management/standards , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Queensland , Residential Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence , Residential Facilities/organization & administration , Safety Management/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety Management/organization & administrationABSTRACT
This document affirms as final, without changes, a provision included in a final rule with request for comments that amended the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations concerning community residential care facilities, contract facilities for certain outpatient and residential services, and State home facilities. That provision established a five-year period within which all covered buildings with nursing home facilities existing as of June 25, 2001, must conform to the automatic sprinkler requirement of the 2009 edition of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101. This rule helps ensure the safety of veterans in the affected facilities.
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Ambulatory Care Facilities/standards , Fire Extinguishing Systems/standards , Fires/prevention & control , Nursing Homes/standards , Residential Facilities/standards , Safety/standards , Veterans/legislation & jurisprudence , Ambulatory Care Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Nursing Homes/legislation & jurisprudence , Residential Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
This final rule requires all long term care facilities to be equipped with sprinkler systems by August 13, 2013. Additionally, this final rule requires affected facilities to maintain their automatic sprinkler systems once they are installed.
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Building Codes/legislation & jurisprudence , Facility Regulation and Control/legislation & jurisprudence , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/prevention & control , Health Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety Management/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Long-Term Care , Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety Management/methods , United StatesABSTRACT
This interim final rule with comment period adopts the substance of the April 15, 2004 temporary interim amendment (TIA) 00-1 (101), Alcohol Based Hand Rub Solutions, an amendment to the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code, published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). This amendment will allow certain health care facilities to place alcohol-based hand rub dispensers in egress corridors under specified conditions. This interim final rule with comment period also requires that nursing facilities install smoke detectors in resident rooms and public areas if they do not have a sprinkler system installed throughout the facility or a hard-wired smoke detection system in those areas.
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Alcohols/therapeutic use , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/prevention & control , Hand Disinfection/standards , Health Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Alcohols/adverse effects , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. , Disinfectants , Disinfection/legislation & jurisprudence , Disinfection/standards , Fire Extinguishing Systems/standards , Health Facilities/standards , Humans , Risk Management , Safety/legislation & jurisprudence , Safety/standards , United StatesABSTRACT
This final rule amends the fire safety standards for hospitals, long-term care facilities, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, ambulatory surgery centers, hospices that provide inpatient services, religious nonmedical health care institutions, critical access hospitals, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly facilities. Further, this final rule adopts the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code and eliminates references in our regulations to all earlier editions.
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Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Health Facilities/standards , Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S./legislation & jurisprudence , Facility Design and Construction/legislation & jurisprudence , Facility Design and Construction/standards , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fire Extinguishing Systems/standards , Fires/prevention & control , Health Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , United StatesSubject(s)
Fires , Government Regulation , Public Health , Safety , Social Welfare , Civil Defense/economics , Civil Defense/education , Civil Defense/history , Civil Defense/legislation & jurisprudence , Fire Extinguishing Systems/history , Fire Extinguishing Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Fires/economics , Fires/history , Fires/legislation & jurisprudence , Germany/ethnology , Government Regulation/history , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , Local Government , Protective Devices/economics , Protective Devices/history , Public Health/economics , Public Health/education , Public Health/history , Public Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Public Policy , Safety/economics , Safety/history , Safety/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Welfare/economics , Social Welfare/ethnology , Social Welfare/history , Social Welfare/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Welfare/psychologyABSTRACT
Successful programs in injury prevention can focus on changing an individual's attitude and behavior or on creating and amending the environment to reduce the likelihood of injury. To investigate the latter approach as it pertains to burn prevention, the American Burn Association Burn Prevention Committee catalogued statewide legislation (as opposted to county or municipal ordinances) in major areas of burn and fire prevention. Burn reporting was generally viewed by state fire marshals as a means to apprehend arsonists or investigate child abuse, as opposed to collect demographic data for injury prevention. Smoke detectors are mandated in new residential construction by the majority of states; however, one in six still leave this to local initiatives. Sprinkler systems have generally not been addressed by state legislation. The committee concludes that pursuing statewide legislative agendas as an area of burn and injury prevention is open to further initiatives.