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Health care facilities managers can help shape recommendations for operating room air quality.

The 2023 edition of NFPA 25 allows for more flexibility around sprinkler piping.

Two recent QSO letters clarify survey processes for reporting patient safety documentation and rural emergency hospitals. 

The ASHE Advocacy Team helps to settle a long-standing debate around sprinkler system safety. 

An overview of responsibilities and areas of concern to ensure accessible health care facilities. 

Facilities can pursue regulatory exemptions for designs that allow greater accessibility.

Revisions that will soon go into effect align with CMS’s Conditions of Participation and remove references for certain AEM programs.

The surveyor guidance affects two Conditions of Participation on patients’ rights and the physical environment.