SD7 - The Need and Feasibility for Equipping General Inpatient, Outpatient, and Psychiatric Hospitals with Fire Suppression Systems

  • Published: 1992
  • Author: Board of Housing and Community Development
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 185 (Regular Session, 1991)

Executive Summary:
Senate Joint Resolution 1 of the 1990 General Assembly requested that the Board of Housing and Community Development study the feasibility and need for equipping hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, homes for adults, congregate facilities, and child-caring institutions with automatic sprinkler systems. The Resolution requested that the Board identify the number of buildings used as hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, homes for adults, congregate facilities which house the elderly and handicapped adults, and child caring institutions that are not equipped with fire suppression systems; to examine the fire safety record of such institutions and facilities; to determine any structural problems with installation of fire suppression systems in these facilities and institutions; to estimate the cost of retrofitting these facilities with recommended systems; and to identify any other methods or systems deemed appropriate for increasing the fire safety of these facilities. The Resolution also directed the Board to submit its findings to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 1990.