Dialysis nursing home

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I have four dialysis machine chairs going to be installed in nursing home type II. I am wondering would back up generator be required for the dialysis machines or not based off if NEC 2017? The nursing is not part of hospital and its free standing building. Does anyone have any experience regarding this matter
 
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Yes but 8 have a guy that just works on dialis machines that would know if you are interested


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Article 517

I think it states that if they hwbebqvj generator in facility you are covered


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I do see NEC 2017 section 517.34(A)(8)(e) which is under Hospital and Other health care facility says Hemodialysis rooms are to be on critical care branch. But this is nursing home free standing building


However when I go to NEC 2017 section 517.42(A) it says for nursing homes and limited healthcare facilities essential electrical system is made of life safety branch and equipment branch. Their is no critical branch.

But then NEC 2017 section 517.40(B) nursing who admit patient on life support equipment need to have essential system as 517.29 thru 517.30 which then says to have critical branch

Would dialysis equipment be considered life support equipment or not and where in code it says generator is required for nursing home dialysis machines?

I am just lost
 
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Look up definition of dialis machine then life support then go to that article.


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It would be if you are in the middle of procedures would think


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It would be if you are in the middle of procedures would think


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At most, if the dialysis machine does not have its own internal backup power, you might lose the relatively small amount of blood circulating in the machine.
Not likely to be life threatening.

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From a FEMA document;
Dialysis centers generally do not have backup generators, but often operate within a network and may shift patients to other local network facilities if the receiving facilities have power and essential medical staff, accessible transportation services are available, and costs are not prohibitive.
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They have a hand crank that permits the blood in the machine to be returned to the patient and the machine to be disconnected. If the dialysis is not complete, the secession will be rescheduled or if the timing is critical, the patient will be transported to a different facility.
 
Only anecdotal input but there are (3) dialysis clinics in this area and none have generators.
I was not involved in the inspections so I didn't see the plans,.
 
I have done a number of dialysis facilities and the only one that was backed up with a generator was located inside of a hospital.

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