Re: [birthcenters] Digest for birthcenters@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic

[Sherry Hartenbower]

Mary Kaye, I would love to take part in a discussion.  I worked at a birth center in GA and have visited several others.  There was no "call light" or emergency call cord in any of the centers.  Can you image the cost of installing such a system?  Many other concerns.... --- On Tue, 8/31/10, birthcente...@googlegroups.com <birthcente...@googlegroups.com> wrote: From: birthcente...@googlegroups.com <birthcente...@googlegroups.com> Subject: [birthcenters] Digest for birthc...@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic To: "Digest Recipients" <birthcent...@googlegroups.com> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 1:46 PM   Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/birthcenters/topics BIRTH CENTER RULES have been posted! [3 Updates]  Topic: BIRTH CENTER RULES have been posted! MaryKay <par...@krausonline.com> Aug 30 04:12PM -0700 ^   test   MaryKay <par...@krausonline.com> Aug 30 04:58PM -0700 ^   test Sorry group. i'm having trouble recieving email. mary kay     MaryKay <par...@krausonline.com> Aug 30 04:00PM -0700 ^   Has anyone else read the rules and care to discuss them. I have not gone out to references i.e Life Safety Code, etc. but plan to try and find those on line. These codes IMO are too much. They describe mini- L&D suites. The beginnin of rules say birth center is not a hospital, but I suspect these rules for electrical, nurses station, recovery room, family conference room, HVAC requirements etc come directly from what hospitals are required to do (but I have not yet looked up references as I said earlier) I have been to 23 birth centers in 13 states in past 3 years as part of my DNP project and the birth centers do not look anything like what is described in R&R. Can we start a discussion about these? Mary Kay Ayers     -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Freestanding Birth Centers" group. To post to this group, send email to birthc...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to birthcenters...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/birthcenters?hl=en.

[Gayle Riedmann]

Thank you for your comments... and I apologize for not responding
sooner. You are absolutely right... the constructions standards are
unreasonable. That is because the birth centers have been designated
as "Ambulatory Health Care Occupancy" instead of "Business
Occupancy". We have already objected to this Life Safety Code
designation before the Rules were published, but to no avail. So now
it is time for the PUBLIC to object... See our recommendations under
"Files".

On Aug 31, 7:57 pm, Sherry Hartenbower <harto...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mary Kaye, I would love to take part in a discussion.  I worked at a birth center in GA and have visited several others.  There was no "call light" or emergency call cord in any of the centers.  Can you image the cost of installing such a system?  Many other concerns....
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> Subject: [birthcenters] Digest for birthc...@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic
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> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 1:46 PM
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> BIRTH CENTER RULES have been posted! [3 Updates]
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>    Topic: BIRTH CENTER RULES have been posted!
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>       MaryKay <part...@krausonline.com> Aug 30 04:00PM -0700