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Standards/Guidelines
ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 170 offers guidance, regulation and mandates to designers and operators of health care facilities. The revised 2021 edition incorporates 17 addenda to the 2017 standard.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Speaker: Jonathan Hart, Senior Fire Protection Engineer, NFPAThis session provides an overview of NFPA 101: Life Safety Code®. The overview includes how to generally navigate the code, where to find specific issues, and how the sections are applicable once found. Topics covered include occupancy classification, components of the means of egress, doors, suites, interior finish, and more. Other NFPA codes and standards applicable to health care facility managers will be referenced.Learning Outcomes:
Book
A step-by-step guide for developing a comprehensive integrated fire protection and life safety inspection, testing and maintenance (ITM) program for health care facilities. This timely publication will support facilities managers ahead of CMS’s adoption of NFPA 101-2018 (or later), which will require integrated life safety ITM for all high-rise buildings.
Monograph
Best practices for financing energy sustainability are described with an emphasis on helping hospitals and associated decision-makers – including professionals from supply chain, facilities, finance, sustainability, and public health – navigate the challenges associated with investing in the carbon reduction goals that health care is being asked to implement.
Compliance Tools
Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals) contains all CMS requirements and survey guidance for a hospital alternate equipment maintenance (AEM) program. These risk assessment factors are generally not the same as the more common factors that hospitals have used in the past for utility system risk assessments.
Book
Introduction to Health Care Facilities Management: This award-winning, in-depth 130+ page introductory book provides an orientation to the dynamic field of health care facilities management. Along the way, we provide tips and anecdotes from seasoned health care professionals that will be valuable to newcomers, engaging to experienced HFMs and thought-provoking to other health care professionals.
Compliance Tools
Taking a good look at eyewash station requirements such as when and where to place eyewash stations in health care facilities.
A review and compilation of the recommended controls for ventilation systems in treatment and isolation areas in health care facilities.
Improve your facility's reliability with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). Download the CMMS tool.
Compliance Tools
Classification schemas are designed to provide health care planners, designers, and operators with a common nomenclature, and to generate these benefits for health care facilities departments.
Compliance Tools
ASHE's medical air testing tool is the key to a reliable and efficient medical gas system.
Compliance Tools
The pre-disaster self-assessment consists of an assessment of critical infrastructure and an estimate of evacuation time.
Compliance Tools
Negative Pressure Room Guidelines: Learn about the importance of temporary negative pressure patient rooms and how to achieve it in your facility.
Resources
COVID-19 resources that cover critical hospital operations such as air quality, safety and security, emergency preparedness and infection prevention.