Hospital Facilities Rules
The proposed temporary adoptions for the rules in 10A NCAC 13B Licensing of Hospitals are in response to a recent act of the General Assembly, Session Law 2017-174, "An Act Directing the Medical Care Commission to Adopt the Recommendations of the American Society of Healthcare Engineering's Facility Guidelines Institute" that became effective on July 21, 2017. Section 1.(c) of this Act, Implementation and Rule-Making Authority, requires the N.C. Medical Care Commission to repeal the existing hospital facilities rules in 10A NCAC 13B and adopt, with means of temporary rules, the recommendations of the American Society of Healthcare Engineering's Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) for hospital facilities. These proposed temporary adoptions incorporate the FGI by reference as the Session Law requires. The purpose of incorporating the FGI in the temporary rule adoptions is for licensed hospitals in North Carolina to be designed and constructed in compliance with a national standard of practice. Following the national standards will benefit the quality of physical plant safety provided to the citizens of North Carolina in these facilities.
- Notification of proposed temporary rules for adoption (PDF, 126 KB)
- Proposed Effective Date: December 1, 2017
- Public Comment Period: September 28, 2017 - October 19, 2017
Comments may be submitted by:- Email: [email protected];
- Mail: Nadine Pfeiffer, Division of Health Service Regulation, 809 Ruggles Drive, 2701 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-2701;
- Public Hearing
- Date: October 18, 2017
- Time: 10:00 a.m.
- Location: Room 123B, Williams Building, 1800 Umstead Drive, Raleigh, NC 27603
- The fiscal note is not required pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.4(d)
- Not applicable for these rules
- Federal Certification required by G.S. 150B-19.1(g)
- Not applicable for these rules
- The notice of text as approved by the N.C. Medical Care Commission, 9/11/2017
- Public Comments
- Minutes from the public hearing that was held October 18, 2017 (PDF, 198 KB)
- North Carolina Hospital Association (PDF, 278 KB)
- Proposed change to a rule posted on the OAH website
- 10A NCAC 13B .6105 (PDF, 81 KB)
- These rules were approved by the Rules Review Commission on 11/16/2017
- 10A NCAC 13B .6003 (PDF, 7 KB)
- 10A NCAC 13B .6105 (PDF, 12 KB)
- 10A NCAC 13B .6228 (PDF, 8 KB)
- Procedure for subjecting a proposed rule to Legislative Review: If an objection is not resolved prior to the adoption of the rule, a person may also submit written objections to the Rules Review Commission. If the Rules Review Commission receives written and signed objections in accordance with G.S. 150B-21.3(b2) from 10 or more persons clearly requesting review by the legislature and the Rules Review Commission approves the rule, the rule will become effective as provided in G.S. 150B-21.3(b1). The Commission will receive written objections until 5:00 p.m. on the day following the day the Commission approves the rule. The Commission will receive those objections by mail, delivery service, hand delivery, or facsimile transmission.