In this session, ASHE's codes and standards experts will discuss emerging codes and standards issues facing health care facilities and offer answers to specific questions. Attendees are invited to ask questions about any of the codes and standards related to health care facilities before this session and can turn them in to the Learning Lounge that will be located on-site near registration. NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code and NFPA 101: Life Satey Code® will be addressed.

Learning Objectives:

Describe code the compliance issues that health care facilities commonly face
Discuss changes needed in health care facility regulations and how to support efforts to enact them
Identify means of meeting NFPA 99 and NFPA 101 requirements that often result in survey citations
Explain the unique and important role of health care professionals in the development of codes and standards used to regulate health care facilities

Kristin Shifflett

LSC Team Lead, Clinical Standards Group, Center for Clinical Standards & Quality, CMS

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