NFPA 99 2018 Health Care Facilities Code

Access the Latest Information to Help Safeguard Lives and Property in Health Care Facilities.

• To help ensure health care professionals can treat patients in a safe and efficient environment, it’s critical to help protect their facilities from fire, electrical, and related hazards. NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, offers the latest performance criteria for health care facilities and appliances, including medical gas and vacuum systems, electrical systems, gas equipment, and features of fire protection.
• The code features provisions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and testing of all health care facilities—including hospitals, nursing homes, and limited care settings. 

Changes to the 2018 edition of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, include:

• Revised requirements addressing the risk assessment in Chapter 4 to clarify the responsibility for conducting a risk assessment and determining risk categories
• Expanded Chapter 5 requirements to now allow for the use of oxygen concentrators as central supply sources for piped medical gas systems
• Revised rule making corrugated medical tubing now a permitted material for medical gas and vacuum systems
• Completely reorganized Chapter 6 to group-related requirements, allowing for the deletion of duplicated requirements for different types of EES
• Revised Chapter 7, now including requirements for wireless phone and paging integration as well as for clinical information systems
• Revised Chapter 14, compiling all of the requirements for inspection, testing, and maintenance for hyperbaric facilities into one section
• New Chapter 15, Dental Gas and Vacuum Piping Systems, dedicated to the application of piped gas and vacuum systems for these systems that do not always readily fall under the requirements for medical gas and vacuum, as addressed in Chapter 5
• Inclusion of requirements for fire extinguisher selection in Chapter 16 for spaces unique to health care facilities

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Other Works:

• NFPA 99 – 2012
• NFPA 99 2015 Health Care Facilities Code
• NFPA 90B 2024 Standard for the Installation of Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Systems