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MERCY HEALTH ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Tag No.: A0700
21521
REMAINS CITED
Based on tour of the facility and staff interviews during the Life Safety Code survey, the facility failed to meet the applicable provisions of the Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association 2000 edition. For building one, the facility failed to ensure every corridor provided access to not less than two approved exits without passing through any intervening rooms or spaces other than corridors or lobbies.
Findings:
See A710.
LIFE SAFETY FROM FIRE
Tag No.: A0710
21521
REMAINS CITED
Based on tour of the facility and staff interviews during the Life Safety Code survey, the facility failed to meet the applicable provisions of the Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association 2000 edition.
For Building 1, the facility failed to ensure every corridor provided access to not less than two approved exits without passing through any intervening rooms or spaces other than corridors or lobbies.
Findings:
On 07/18/12 at 4:10 P.M. a tour was conducted of the second floor D wing neonatal intensive care unit with Staff A. The tour revealed the exit stairway on the West end of the wing's corridor. Traveling east from that exit stairway along the corridor, the tour revealed the corridor stopped at a suite of rooms. Within that suite located on the south side of the wing, was the corridor's second stairwell exit. Continuing traveling east in the corridor, past the suite, revealed the wing's third exit. Thus, a person on the west side of the wing would have to pass through the suite in the middle of the corridor to obtain access to a second exit.
This finding was confirmed by Staff A in an interview on 07/18/12 at 4:10 P.M.
Please refer to K130-Building 1.