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Patient Care Room
Any room of a health care facility wherein patients are intended to be examined or treated.
Patient Care Rooms can be divided into several categories:
n Basic Care Room
Room in which failure of equipment or a system is not likely to cause injury or death of patients or caregivers. This includes
examination or treatment rooms in clinics, medical and dental offices, nursing homes, and limited care facilities.
n General Care Room
Room in which failure of equipment or a system is likely to cause minor injury or death of patients or caregivers. This includes
inpatient bedrooms, dialysis rooms, procedural rooms, and similar rooms.
n Critical Care Room
Room in which failure of equipment or a system is likely to cause major injury or death of patients or caregivers. This includes
rooms where patients are typically intended to be subjected to invasive procedures and are connected to line-operated, patient
care related appliances. Examples are intensive care or critical care rooms, operating rooms, delivery rooms, trauma rooms and
similar rooms.
n Support Room
Room in which failure of equipment or a system is not likely to have a physical impact on patients or caregivers. This includes
waiting rooms, utility rooms, laboratories, morgues and similar rooms.
Patient Care Areas: As defined in NFPA 99 – 2012 Edition
Patient Care Vicinity (Illustrated below)
A space, within a location intended for examination and treatment of patients, extending 6 feet (1.8 m) beyond the normal location
of the bed, chair, table, treadmill, or other device that supports the patient during examination and treatment and extending vertically
7.5 feet (2.3 m) above the floor.