Error loading player: No playable sources found
Major Proposed Changes to NFPA 101 - 2024 Edition
Date
April 14, 2023
This product is not available for individual purchase, but it is available as part of the following products:
The PDC Summit brings together thousands working in all disciplines of health care planning, design and construction to learn, network and discover ways to create value for the health care built environment…
CMS currently enforces the 2012 edition of NFPA 101 for health care organizations that are certified to receive reimbursement for patients covered by Medicare or Medicaid. Some states already require compliance with newer editions of NFPA 101. The session will highlight the cumulative impact of changes in the 2015, 2018, 2021, and anticipated changes in the 2024 Edition of NFPA 101.
Some of the changes that will be addressed include: increased size of non-sleeping suites, increase in smoke compartment size, and changes to the locking requirements that will benefit behavioral health units. In addition, significant changes to the reference standards will be identified including to better clarify the scope of the annual inspections for fire doors.
Some of the changes that will be addressed include: increased size of non-sleeping suites, increase in smoke compartment size, and changes to the locking requirements that will benefit behavioral health units. In addition, significant changes to the reference standards will be identified including to better clarify the scope of the annual inspections for fire doors.
Learning Objectives
- Identify at least three significant changes in NFPA 101 that will be beneficial to health care organizations.
- Identify at least three locking arrangements that will be beneficial to behavioral health facilities.
- Identify how changes in the FGI Guidelines have impacted requirements in NFPA 101.
- List at least three significant changes in the reference standards between the 2012 and 2024 Editions of NFPA 101.
Speaker
William E. Koffel, SASHE, PE, FSFPE
Sr. Director, Special Projects, Koffel Associates Inc
Tracks
Related Products
Leveraging Discrete Event Simulation to Evaluate Clinic Design Outcomes
There is a growing trend for hospital systems to develop and reuse malls primarily established in diverse neighborhoods. This presentation highlights a case study for adaptive reuse of a mall reimagined as a "one-stop-shop" of health, wellness and activity facilities…
Facilties Information Transfer (FIT) — Redefining Project Success for Facilites Operations
This session focuses on a health care system and how it systematically developed a process over the last five years for transition to facilities operations day one…
Fire to Electrons: Decarbonization at Baptist Health South Florida's Boca Raton Regional Hospital
U.S. health care sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 25% of global health care sector emissions and 8.5% of total US GHG emissions…
Ambulatory Care of the Future
This session, given by the chief ambulatory officer for the University of Wisconsin Health and a health care information technology (HIT) leader from IMEG Corp., will discuss a visionary approach to the future of ambulatory care leveraging HIT and the role it will play in advancing care…
