Showing posts with label CMS Corridor Obstructions Stance Revised. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Compliance News: CMS Corridor Obstructions Stance Revised

By Dean Samet, CHSP


In a May 14, 2010 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services memorandum, Ref: S&C-10-18-LSC, CMS announced changes to previous policies regarding the use of corridor wall-mounted computer touch screens in healthcare facilities.

CMS is now allowing certain wall-mounted technologies and other items to be wall-mounted in corridors as long as they don’t project out more than six inches from the corridor wall or conflict with other sections of the National Fire Protection Association’s Life Safety Code®.