Electrical Receptacles for patient bedrooms in Psychiatric Hospitals

[Shujinko]

The Facility Guideline Institute (FGI 2018) requires Electrical Receptacles for a patient bedroom in Psychiatric Hospitals to be installed as follows "Where electrical receptacles are provided in a patient bedroom, the recepetacles shall be, all controlled by a single switch outside the room under the control of staff". How is this typically acomplished? Contactor or relay with a keyed switch? The way I read this each patient room has to have it's own individual switch to shut receptacle power off, this can't be done as a group shut off? Any insight you could provide would be great, it's my first time doing an installation like this.

 

[HEYDOG]

Imo A keyed switch for each room would give you the best flexibility. You can choose to only shut down one room at a time. I would also think about the location of the keyed switch….as some of them are easy to use a paper clip to over ride. Should the keyed switches be only in a location where staff have complete control?

 

[roger]

Put the switches at the nurse station or some remote area. Note that psychiatric rooms are not even required to have receptacles.

 

[Shujinko]

Put the switches at the nurse station or some remote area. Note that psychiatric rooms are not even required to have receptacles.

If the intent of the requirement is to have individual controls for each room that can be alot of keyed switches at the nurse station.

 

[Shujinko]

Imo A keyed switch for each room would give you the best flexibility. You can choose to only shut down one room at a time. I would also think about the location of the keyed switch….as some of them are easy to use a paper clip to over ride. Should the keyed switches be only in a location where staff have complete control?

I have your same question.

 

[roger]

If the intent of the requirement is to have individual controls for each room that can be alot of keyed switches at the nurse station.

They would not need to be keyed switches. They can be regular snap switches or any type of control as long as the medical staff is in control of them. How many rooms are in each suite?