Section R432-14-4 - General Construction Patient Facilities(1) The licensee shall ensure the facility is designed to allow access to service areas and common areas without compromising patient privacy.(2) The licensee shall ensure birth rooms and service areas are grouped to form a physically defined service unit.(3) The licensee shall ensure spaces are provided for each of the required services.(4) The licensee shall ensure interior finishes, lighting, and furnishings reflect a residential rather than an institutional setting.(5) The licensee shall ensure maximum room occupancy is one mother and her newborn infant or infants.(6) The licensee shall ensure windows in a birth room with a sight line that permit observation from the exterior are arranged or draped to ensure patient privacy.(7) The licensee shall ensure birth rooms provide each patient a wardrobe, closet, or locker, having minimum clearance dimensions of 24 inches by 20 inches, suitable for hanging full-length garments. A clothes rod and adjustable shelf shall be provided.(8) The licensee shall ensure a toilet room with direct access from the birth room is accessible. (a) The toilet room shall contain a toilet and a lavatory. A shower or tub shall be accessible to each birth room and may be located in the toilet room.(b) A toilet room may serve two birth rooms.(c) Each toilet room fixture shall be handicap-accessible and shall have grab bars.(9) The licensee shall ensure newborn infant resuscitation equipment, including electrical receptacles, oxygen, and suction are immediately available to each birth room in addition to resuscitation equipment provided for the mother. Portable oxygen and suction equipment shall be permitted.(10) The licensee shall ensure a mechanically exhausted area for storage of facility maintenance materials and equipment is provided and may be combined with the environmental services room.(11) The licensee shall ensure an examination light is readily available in each birth room. Special surgical lighting is not required.(12) The licensee shall ensure an emergency lighting system is required and includes:(a) emergency exit signs;(b) enough lighting to safely exit the building; and(c) an examination light.Utah Admin. Code R432-14-4
Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2016-18, effective 8/26/2016Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2023-10, effective 5/5/2023