RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR HOSPICE IN ARKANSAS
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR HOSPICE IN ARKANSAS
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR HOSPICE IN ARKANSAS
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<strong>RULES</strong> <strong>AND</strong> <strong>REGULATIONS</strong> <strong>FOR</strong> <strong>HOSPICE</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>ARKANSAS</strong><br />
SECTION 29: PHYSICAL FACILITIES, DETAILS <strong>AND</strong> F<strong>IN</strong>ISHES<br />
Agency #007.05<br />
All details for alteration or expansion projects as well as for new construction shall<br />
comply with the following.<br />
A. Details.<br />
1. Compartmentation, exits, automatic extinguishing systems, and other<br />
details relating to fire prevention and fire protection shall comply with<br />
requirements listed in the NFPA referenced codes, shall be maintained at<br />
the facility and shown on the Fire Protection Plan.<br />
2. Corridor partitions, smoke stop partitions, horizontal exit partitions, exit<br />
enclosures, and fire rated walls required to have protected openings shall<br />
be effectively and permanently identified with signs or stenciling in a<br />
manner acceptable to the Health Facility Services. Such identification<br />
shall be above any decorative ceiling and in concealed spaces.<br />
3. Rooms containing bathtubs, sitz baths, showers, and water closets,<br />
subject to occupancy by patients, shall be equipped with doors and<br />
hardware which shall permit access from the outside the room.<br />
4. Glass doors, lights, sidelights, borrowed lights, and windows located within<br />
12 inches of a door jamb (with a bottom frame height of less than 60<br />
inches above the finished floor) shall be constructed of safety glass, wired<br />
glass, or plastic, break resistant material that creates no dangerous cutting<br />
edges when broken. Safety glass-tempered or plastic glazing materials<br />
shall be used for shower doors and bath enclosures. In renovation<br />
projects, only glazing within 18 inches of the floor shall be changed to<br />
safety glass, wire glass, or plastic, break-resistant material.<br />
5. Thresholds and expansion joint covers shall be installed flush with the<br />
floor surface to facilitate use of wheelchairs and carts. Expansion and<br />
seismic joints shall be constructed to restrict the passage of smoke.<br />
6. Grab bars shall be provided in all patients' toilets, showers, tubs, and sitz<br />
baths. The bars shall have one and one-half inch clearance to walls and<br />
shall have sufficient strength and anchorage to sustain a concentrated<br />
load of 250 pounds.<br />
7. Lavatories and hand washing stations shall be securely anchored to<br />
withstand an applied downward vertical load of not less than 250 pounds<br />
on the front of the fixture.<br />
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