Dentist office

[roger]

In your experience, without written notice from a governing body, does determination of wet procedure location depend on dental chairs with a sink?

Regardless of licensing (Business or Healthcare) it would be a far stretch to call Dental rooms Wet Procedure locations. The water associated with Rinsing the mouth is pretty much controlled and confined. I have never walked into a dental room where water (as in puddled) was on the floor.

Wet Procedure Locations.

Those spaces within patient
care areas where a procedure is performed and that are
normally subject to wet conditions while patients are
present. These include standing fluids on the floor or
drenching of the work area, either of which condition is
intimate to the patient or staff. Routine housekeeping procedures
and incidental spillage of liquids do not define a
wet procedure location.

 

[hbiss]

I can't imagine surgery being performed while the patient is being hosed down...

The term probably dates back to the last century.

-Hal