Patient room definition

Patient room means a room containing licensed patient beds. Patient room does not include rooms used for observation or preoperative or postoperative care.

Examples of Patient room in a sentence

  • Each Patient room with a telephone shall have an electrical outlet within four feet of the telephone connection to facilitate the use of a TTY device, or the Hospital will provide when needed a heavy-duty extension cord for patient rooms that are not so equipped.

  • Any washroom which is not an ensuite and is located outside of a Patient room in a common area.

  • The Hospital shall continue to ensure that televisions with built-in captioning capability are available to deaf or hard of hearing Patients and Companions at no additional cost; and that the directions for use of the closed caption capability are clearly stated in the Patient Handbook (or equivalent publication) or otherwise available in each Patient room and public area containing a television with captioning capability.

  • The Hospital shall not be required to provide portable visual alarms in a Patient room if a person who may suffer from seizures that may be triggered by a visual alarm is reasonably expected to spend significant amounts of time in the room.

  • MHS shall make TTY/TDD devices, Video Relay Service/Captel equipped laptops, and amplified handsets (portable communication devices) available to Patients and/or Companions who are deaf or hard of hearing or who have speech disabilities upon arrival in a Patient room.

  • Each Patient room with a telephone shall have an electrical outlet within four feet of the telephone connection to facilitate the use of a TTY device, or Silver Hill Hospital will provide when needed a heavy-duty extension cord for Patient rooms that are not so equipped.

  • The Hospital shall ensure that each Patient room into which a visual alarm is to be placed complies with the Standards set forth in Schedule B hereto.

  • The Hospital shall make the equipment required by this section available within 30 to 60 minutes of a Patient's arrival in a Patient room.