AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by hospitalsafetycenter.com
presented on January 30, 2008
The Joint Commission plays an important role with occupancy classification. Are you ready to demonstrate compliance?
Clear the confusion regarding defining the various occupancies at your facility and join us for our upcoming audioconference, Avoid Life Safety Code Non-Compliance: Correctly classify occupancies in healthcare facilities.
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The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services evaluate healthcare facilities based on how the LSC classifies these areas. But if misclassified, facilities could be subject to LSC requirements that aren’t applicable—which could cost money and headaches when it comes to required fire protection features, and erroneously subject facilities to two-day Joint Commission life safety specialist surveys.
Listen to industry leaders Joshua W. Elvove, PE, CSP, FSFPE, and Peter Leszczak explain in plain-English how to keep your facility up-to-date with current industry guidelines during this 90-minute audio conference.
Our speakers define the various occupancy types you typically find in healthcare settings, compare requirements among occupancy types, explain the differences between mixed and separated occupancies, and discuss how to properly separate occupancies within a single building.
They also provide insight on how to avoid spending money on requirements that may not be needed as well as how to reduce unnecessary maintenance. With this expert guidance and a question and answer session following the presentation, you’ll be able to make your occupancies comply with LSC guidelines.
BONUS TOOLS: Listeners will also take home two great tools to help with future occupancy questions:
- HCPro’s “Healthcare Occupancy Classifier, “ which helps users determine occupancy types
- Detailed chart comparing various Life Safety Code requirements for healthcare, ambulatory, and business occupancies, including specific code references
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA
- Explain the importance of occupancy types
- Why is the correct occupancy classification important?
- The Joint Commission’s role in occupancy oversight
- How the LSC is structured by occupancy
- Taking aim at occupancy variations
- Health care occupancies
- Ambulatory health care occupancies (including discussion about CMS’ provisions for ambulatory surgical centers)
- Business and other occupancies
- Comparing occupancy-specific requirements
- Building construction
- Means of egress
- Protection features
- Operating features
- Determine occupancy classifications
- How occupancy types might comingle within buildings
- Multiple occupancies (Mixed v. separated)
- How to properly separate other occupancies from health care occupancies
- Common missteps with, and confusion about, occupancy classification
A question and answer session follows the presentation
Please note: This is an intermediate level program. Participants should have basic knowledge or familiarity with life safety. Participants should have the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code available for the live event.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After this program, you will know how to:
- Define various LSC occupancy types
- Distinguish among different occupancies found in healthcare settings
- Determine which LSC provisions apply to the occupancy classifications discussed
- Differentiate between mixed and separated occupancies
- Recognize the potential cost and compliance benefits of separated occupancies
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Joshua W. Elvove, PE, CSP, FSFPE, served as one of The Joint Commission’s original Life Safety Code® specialists, responsible for evaluating healthcare organization compliance with The Joint Commission’s environment of care standards and the Life Safety Code. He has more than 26 years of fire protection engineering experience, including 17 years related to health care during which he managed the safety and fire protection program for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Western and Rocky Mountain Regions. Mr. Elvove serves on the NFPA technical committee on means of egress and is a vice president and Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Peter Leszczak has worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a safety and fire protection engineer for more than 13 years and is the owner of PSL Engineering, LLC. He provides life safety consultation including on-site life safety assessments of all buildings surveyed under The Joint Commission standards with follow-up recommendations to address any deficiencies identified. Mr. Leszczak is a technical committee member of NFPA 72, NFPA 99 and NFPA 101.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN
Facility director, plant operations managers, safety officers, fire marshals, maintenance directors, architects, general staff engineers
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