By David Stymiest, PE, CHFM, CHSP, FASHE
Waivers address selected life safety, medical gas master alarm, emergency power testing, and firesafety equipment testing requirements.
The
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new Survey &
Certification memorandum # S&C: 13-58-LSC to its State Survey Agency
Directors on August 30, 2013. This new
S&C memo identifies several areas where several separate requirements more
than a decade old are being relaxed for (and only for) those facilities that
take the necessary steps to elect to use the waivers.
