Essential Branch List

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Life Safety Branch
Shall supply power to loads per NFPA 70 and 99, including:


• Alarm and alerting systems: Fire and Medical Gas Alarm Systems, and other required alarm systems
• Automatic doors: Used for building egress
• Elevator cab: Lighting and control system
• Means of Egress: Exit signs and egress lighting
• Generator set and transfer switch locations: Task illumination, battery charger for emergency battery-powered lighting units, and selected receptacles
• Generator set accessories: As required for generator performance
• Telecommunications and Special Telecommunications Systems: where used for issuing instructions during emergency conditions, including public address and Code Blue systems and Disaster Control or Emergency Communication Centers.
• Fire Pump: Connected to generator through integral ATS in the fire pump controller.




Critical Branch
Shall supply power to loads per NFPA 70 and 99, and as described below:

• Acute Nursing: Task illumination and selected receptacles
• Stepdown Units: Task illumination and selected receptacles
• Anesthetizing Locations: Task illumination, selected receptacles, and fixed equipment; task illumination includes battery back-up
• Angiographic Laboratories: Task illumination, selected receptacles, and selected power circuits
• Blood, Bone, Eye, and Tissue Banks: Task illumination, selected receptacles, and refrigerators
• Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Rooms: Task illumination, selected receptacles, selected power circuits and X-ray unit
• Coronary Care Unit: Task illumination, selected receptacles, selected power circuits and PBPUs
• Emergency Room Treatment Areas and Life Support Rooms: Task illumination, selected receptacles, selected power circuits and PBPUs
• General Patient Bedrooms: Night lights, an alcove or a lavatory mirror light, one receptacle per bedwall, preferably in the PBPU, if available, and a bathroom light
• Hemodialysis Rooms: Task illumination and one receptacle for each dialysis unit PBPU
• Human Physiology Labs: Task illumination, selected receptacles, and selected circuits
• Intensive Care Units: Task illumination, selected receptacles, selected power circuits and PBPUs
• Isolated power systems in special environments
• Medication Rooms and Medication Preparation Areas: Task illumination, selected receptacles, and refrigerators
• Minor Operating Rooms: Task illumination and selected receptacles
• Nurse Call systems
• Nurses Stations: Task illumination and selected receptacles
• Pharmacy Dispensing Area (including Satellite Pharmacies): Power files, laminar flow hoods, refrigerators, copier for transmittal of physicians' orders, task illumination, and selected receptacles
• Psychiatric Bedrooms: Task illumination (ceiling only)
• Surgical Operating Rooms: Task illumination (50% of the general fluorescent fixtures above the surgery table including battery backup within two of these fixtures), all X-ray units, and one film processor per suite
• Surgical Recovery Rooms: Lighting fixture over each bed, one receptacle for each bed (or PBPU), night lights for each bed (or PBPU), and emergency alarm circuits
• Main Computer Room, Backup Computer Room, Telecommunications Rooms, Telephone Operators Room, and Antenna Headend Equipment Room: All UPS equipment, lighting, and receptacles.
• Ward Treatment Rooms: Task illumination and selected receptacles
• Dental Suites: Each ceiling track operatory surgical light, each dental operating unit, one duplex receptacle in each treatment area, and a storage refrigerator
• Electrical Rooms: 50% of lighting and 50% of receptacles; also provide additional battery-powered lighting main electrical room
• Engineering Control Center and Mechanical Equipment Rooms: UPS equipment, task illumination, and selected receptacles for operating and controlling internal auxiliary power, data gathering panels, control air compressors, dryers, and any electric control for heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems
• Laboratory Service: Task illumination, selected receptacles in areas used to continue essential functions or critical experiments in the event of power failure, fume hoods, exhaust fans, and refrigerators
• Pharmacy Delivery Systems and Delivery Areas: Task illumination, selected receptacles, dumbwaiter for delivery of STAT requests, and pneumatic tube system for STAT requests if no other delivery system is readily available
• Respiratory Care Beds: PBPUs; when PBPU is not provided, task illumination and one receptacle for each bed
• Security Station: Monitoring security alarm systems, task illumination, one receptacle, intrusion and duress alarms at agent cashier, pharmacy, drug storage room in warehouse, canteen office, canteen retail store room, and canteen storage
• Special Procedure Rooms (Radiology): Task illumination and X-ray unit
• HVAC for Surgical Suites, Intensive Care, Coronary Care, and Emergency Treatment Spaces, and other areas as deemed necessary by VA
• Medical dispensing equipment




Equipment Branch Non-Delayed Automatic Connection
Arrange the following generator accessories for non-delayed automatic connection to the alternate power source:

• Electrically operated louvers
• Other generator accessories essential for generator operation
• Transfer fuel pump



Equipment Branch Delayed-Automatic Connection
Arrange the following equipment for delayed-automatic connection to the alternate power source, including necessary controls:

• Central suction systems, vacuum pumps and oral evacuation pumps serving medical and surgical functions, including controls
• Sump pumps and other equipment such as associated control systems and alarms required for the safety of major equipment that may be exposed to water
• Medical and dental air compressors serving medical and surgical functions, including controls (such systems may be connected to the Critical Branch; the A/E shall coordinate with the Chief Engineer at the facility)
• Smoke control and stair pressurization systems
• Kitchen hood supply and/or exhaust systems, if required to operate during a fire in or under the kitchen hood
• Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) equipment serving other than telecommunications equipment
• Medical and laboratory refrigerators and freezers as required
• Oxygen storage control panel
• Equipment and control systems for each elevator bank: Design control systems to operate at least one elevator at a time and designate one elevator to serve the Surgical Suite during emergencies
• Jockey pump, and make-up pump for water-based fire protection systems; air compressor for dry-type fire protection systems; lighting and selected receptacles in fire pump room
• Hyperbaric facilities
• Hypobaric facilities
• Automatic operated doors
• Autoclaving equipment (shall be permitted to be arranged for either delayed-automatic or manual connection to the alternate source)
• Administrative Areas: Task illumination and selected receptacles in the hospital Director’s, Engineering, and VA Police Operations
• Closed-loop water chilling equipment for linear accelerator
• Domestic Water Pumps: Equipment, control system, light fixture, and receptacle near the pump
• Electric tape for heat tracing of piping requiring freeze protection
• Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems:
o Heating Equipment: Operating Suites, Recovery, Intensive Care, Coronary Care, Infection and/or Isolation Rooms, Emergency Treatment Spaces, and General Patient Rooms; under certain conditions, NFPA 99 may not require heating of General Patient Rooms and Infection Isolation Rooms
o Air-conditioning equipment, lubricating oil pumps for centrifugal compressors, control air compressors, air dryer and absorption machine refrigerant pump to draw down lithium chloride before crystallization (omit for machines accomplishing this manually)
o Chillers, chilled water circulating pumps, fans, and controls for surgical suites, recovery rooms, intensive care, and coronary care units
o Chillers, chilled water circulating pumps, fans, and controls for animal research facilities
o HVAC equipment for Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) areas
o HVAC equipment for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Suites and Computerized Topographic (CT) Scanners
o HVAC equipment serving emergency areas in outpatient clinics in seismic and high-risk hurricane areas
o HVAC equipment for Main Computer Room, Telecommunications Rooms, Telephone Operators Room, and Antenna Headend Equipment Room
o Exhaust fans serving Autopsy Rooms, reagent-grade Water Treatment Rooms, Orthotic Laboratory special exhaust systems, battery charging areas, flammable storage rooms, and illustration rooms (Medical Media)
o Supply, return, and exhaust ventilating systems for Infection Isolation Rooms, Protective Environment Rooms, and exhaust fans for laboratory fume hoods and nuclear medicine areas where radioactive material is used, ethylene oxide evacuation and anesthesia evacuation. These systems are permitted on delayed automatic system only, and shall not be served via manual system. Some systems may be placed on the Critical Branch. Coordinate with VA.
o Ventilation, cooling, and control equipment for electrical rooms
o Ventilation, cooling, and control equipment for elevator machine rooms
• Hot Water Circulatory and Steam Condensate Return Pumps: Equipment, controls, and light fixture and receptacle near the pumps
• Hot Water Generator: Equipment, controls, and light fixture and receptacle near the generator
• Kitchen: Illumination and minimum equipment to feed patients during extended outage; freezers and refrigerators
• Laboratory Air Compressors and Vacuum Pumps: Equipment, controls, and light fixture and receptacle near the compressors and pumps
• Animal Ward lighting
• Mortuary Refrigerator or Cold Room: Refrigeration equipment and task illumination
• Radiology Suite: Task illumination, one automatic X-ray film processor, and one X-ray unit
• Refrigerated Medical Storage: Refrigeration equipment
• Sewage Pumps: Equipment, controls, and light fixture and receptacle near the pumps
• Supply, Processing, and Distribution (SPD):
o Task illumination and selected receptacles in the following areas: core, sterile storage, non-sterile storage, preparation, and decontamination
o One ultrasonic cleaner, one ethylene oxide gas sterilizer, one steam sterilizer, one washer sterilizer, and one gas generator
o Equipment in warehouse areas necessary to preserve subsistence drugs and X-ray film materials that may be subjected to damage from infestation, humidity, or temperature
• Water and Sewage Treatment Plant: Lighting, receptacles, and equipment needed during emergency