1244 Latrobe Area Hospital  

  • Application of Latrobe Area Hospital for Exception to 28 Pa. Code § 571.1

    [29 Pa.B. 4116]

       Under 28 Pa. Code § 51.33 (relating to requests for exceptions), the Department of Health (Department) hereby gives notice that Latrobe Area Hospital has requested an exception to the requirements of 28 Pa. Code § 571.1 which require compliance with minimum standards contained in the following publication: Guidelines for Design and construction of Hospital and Healthcare Facilities. Latrobe specifically requests exemption from the standards contained in this publication which require that an airborne isolation room in an emergency department have an integral patient bathing facility. The hospital requests an exception that the Isolation Room not be required to have a bathing facility as patients entering the emergency facility would not be bathed in the Emergency Department but, if admitted, would be transferred to a respiratory isolation room equipped with a bathing facility.

       The request is on file with the Department. Persons may receive a copy of the request for exception by requesting a copy from Division of Acute & Ambulatory Care, Department of Health, Room 532 Health & Welfare Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 783-8980, Fax (717) 772-2163, E-Mail Address: LVIA@HEALTH.STATE.PA.US.

       Those persons who wish to comment on this exception request may do so by sending a letter by mail, e-mail or facsimile to the Division and address listed above.

       Comments received by the Department within 10 days after the date of publication of this notice will be reviewed by the Department before it decides whether to approve or disapprove the request for exception.

       Persons with a disability who wish to obtain a copy of the request and/or provide comments to the Department and require an auxiliary aide service or other accommodation to do so, should contact Director, Division of Acute & Ambulatory Care at (717) 783-8980, V/TT: (717) 783-6514 for Speech and/or Hearing Impaired Persons or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984 [TT].

    ROBERT S. ZIMMERMAN, Jr.,   
    Secretary

    [Pa.B. Doc. No. 99-1244. Filed for public inspection July 30, 1999, 9:00 a.m.]

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