Patient rooms

Each patient room must meet the following requirements: 1. A patient room may not be located on a floor unless a portion of the floor is at or above grade level. A patient room may not have its floor more than thirty inches [.76 meter] below the adjacent grade. 2. Patient rooms must have adequate space to conveniently house necessary furniture and equipment, to provide for efficient patient care, to provide for convenient movement of stretchers, and for the transfer of patients to and from beds. 3. The smallest dimension of a rectangular single patient room may not be less than ten feet [3.05 meters] free of fixed obstructions and the floor area may not be less than one hundred twenty-five square feet [11.61 square meters]. 4. The smallest dimension of a rectangular multiple patient room may not be less than eleven feet six inches [3.51 meters] free of fixed obstructions, except in specially arranged rectangular rooms such as toe-to-toe arrangements where the minimum clear width may not be less than ten feet [3.05 meters] free of fixed obstructions. 5. In other than rectangular-shaped rooms, the principles of space allocation specified by the minimum dimensions and floor area requirements in rectangular-shaped rooms must be adhered to. 6. Each patient room must have an outside wall with natural light provided by a window. The area of the glazing material in the window may not be less than one-tenth of the floor area of the patient room. 7. Multiple patient rooms must be designed to permit no more than two beds side by side parallel to the window wall. 8. A patient room may not be located more than one hundred twenty feet [36.58 meters] from the nurses station, the clean workroom, and the soiled workroom. 9. Patient toilet rooms must be functionally accessible and usable by the patients whom they serve.