Health Care Occupancies

(1) Definition – Health Care Occupancies are used for purposes such as medical or other treatment or care of persons with physical, intellectual, or developmental disabilities, disease, or infirmity, and for the care of children, persons recovering from an illness or operation, or persons of advanced age. Health Care Occupancies provide sleeping facilities for the occupants or are occupied by persons who are mostly incapable of self-preservation because of age, physical or intellectual disability, or because of security measures not under the occupants’ control. Examples of licensees required to meet health care occupancy standards are the following: (a) Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institutional Habilitation Facility. (b) Any residential facility serving four (4) or more persons who are not capable of self- preservation and any non-residential facility serving four (4) or more persons six (6) years of age or older who are not capable of self-preservation. (2) Criteria - For the purpose of life safety, licensees required to meet Health Care Occupancies must comply with the applicable standards of the Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association, Health Care Occupancies, or equivalent standards hereafter adopted by the Office of the State Fire Marshal.