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CMS NFPA 99 Requirements - WoundReference

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) facilities are constantly at risk of fire, as conditions needed for fires to ignite can be easily met inside a hyperbaric chamber - hyperbaric chambers are a high oxygen environment in which "fuel" can be easily found in the form of cloth, paper and others. Read full free article here: https://woundreference.com/blog?id=medicare-fire-protection-requirements---how-to-be-compliant

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CMS NFPA 99 Requirements - WoundReference

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  1. Solutions to Empower Hyperbaric & Wound Care Clinicians Achieve better outcomes more efficiently.

  2. CMS NFPA 99 requirements - what does it take to be compliant?

  3. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) facilities are constantly at risk of fire, as conditions needed for fires to ignite can be easily met inside a hyperbaric chamber.

  4. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hyperbaric facilities be compliant with the 2012 edition of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code (LSC) and NFPA 99 Health Care Facilities Code (HCFC)

  5. The LSC is a set of fire protection requirements designed to provide a reasonable degree of safety from fire.

  6. The HCFC is a set requirements intended to provide minimum requirements for the installation, inspection, testing, performance & safe practices for facilities, material & appliances.

  7. Read full free article here: https://woundreference.com/blog?id=medicare-fire- protection-requirements---how-to-be-compliant

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