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Tragedy of Multiple Death Nursing Home Fires: The Need for a National Commitment to Safety
Rationale for enactment of Federal legislation requiring installation of automatic sprinkler systems in Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes is presented in a report to the 94th Congress. The study on which the report is based was prompted by the experience of Chicago, Ill. Two fires in Chicago nursing homes killed 32 people and injured 50 others, while a third was extinguished quickly, with no loss of life or injury, by an automatic sprinkler system. The City of Chicago then enacted an ordinance requiring all nursing homes to install sprinkler systems. Several reports, including one from the National Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce, are cited to demonstrate that automatic sprinklers are the best known way to prevent multiple - death fires in nursing homes. The cost of requiring all nursing homes to be fully protected with sprinkler systems is estimated at $0.19 per bed per day. The total national cost is estimated at $256 million to $412 million for the 8,000 Medicare and Medicaid nursing facilities (out of a total of 16,500) without sprinklers at the time of the report. The provision of direct Federal loans is viewed as the most expedient way to insure the availability of the $32,000 to $50,000 per facility required to install the sprinkler systems. Copies of related House bills are included.
Tragedy of Multiple Death Nursing Home Fires: The Need for a National Commitment to Safety
Rationale for enactment of Federal legislation requiring installation of automatic sprinkler systems in Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes is presented in a report to the 94th Congress. The study on which the report is based was prompted by the experience of Chicago, Ill. Two fires in Chicago nursing homes killed 32 people and injured 50 others, while a third was extinguished quickly, with no loss of life or injury, by an automatic sprinkler system. The City of Chicago then enacted an ordinance requiring all nursing homes to install sprinkler systems. Several reports, including one from the National Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce, are cited to demonstrate that automatic sprinklers are the best known way to prevent multiple - death fires in nursing homes. The cost of requiring all nursing homes to be fully protected with sprinkler systems is estimated at $0.19 per bed per day. The total national cost is estimated at $256 million to $412 million for the 8,000 Medicare and Medicaid nursing facilities (out of a total of 16,500) without sprinklers at the time of the report. The provision of direct Federal loans is viewed as the most expedient way to insure the availability of the $32,000 to $50,000 per facility required to install the sprinkler systems. Copies of related House bills are included.
Tragedy of Multiple Death Nursing Home Fires: The Need for a National Commitment to Safety
1976
51 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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