Section 22-B3246. RESIDENT BEDROOMS

 

3246.1Each resident bedroom shall be designed and equipped for providing adequate nursing care, comfort, and privacy of residents.

 

3246.2Each bedroom shall provide a personal, home-like atmosphere which includes the use of an eye-level mirror, and other personal belongings.

 

3246.3Each bedroom shall have direct access to a corridor and at least one (1) window to the outside.

 

3246.4No resident bedroom shall be located on a floor that is below grade level.

 

3246.5If the room is not for single occupancy, each bed shall have flameproof ceiling suspended curtains which extend around each bed in order to provide the resident total visual privacy, in combination with adjacent walls and curtains.

 

3246.6Each bedroom shall be equipped for each resident with the following minimum items:

 

(a)A separate bed of proper size and height for the convenience of the resident and appropriate to the resident's physical condition;

 

(b)A clean, comfortable mattress;

 

(c)Bedding appropriate to the weather and climate;

 

(d)Functional furniture appropriate to the resident's needs and individual closet space with clothes racks and shelves accessible to the resident;

 

(e)A call system meeting the requirements of section 3245.10;

 

(f)A bedside table or cabinet with some lockable storage space; and

 

(g)One (1) chair.

 

3246.7One (1) or more bedrooms shall be designated, when needed, as isolation facilities for any resident who has an infectious or contagious disease.

 

3246.8Each resident room shall be ventilated and shall have separate, adjacent toilet and bathing facilities.

 

3246.9Each new facility and each facility proposing renovation that involves reconfiguration of resident rooms shall be designed so that each resident bedroom shall have no more than two (2) occupants.

 

3246.10At least three (3) feet of space shall be maintained between a resident's bed and the next bed, between a resident's bed and the door and between the foot of a resident's bed and the wall.

 

3246.11Each multiple-occupancy room shall provide no less than eighty (80) square feet per resident, exclusive of closets, toilet rooms, wardrobes, and vestibules.

 

3246.12Each single-occupancy room shall provide no less than one-hundred (100) square feet per resident, exclusive of closets, wardrobes, toilet rooms, and vestibules.

 

3246.13Each resident bedroom shall be designated by distinct letters or numbers on the door or the wall beside the door.

 

3246.14In each new facility telephone jacks shall be installed in each resident room.

 

source

Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 473 (January 18, 2002).