# Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Fire Safety Requirements for Certain Health Care Facilities
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2003-01-10 · Effective 2003-03-11 · 68 FR 1374
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-273
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 1374
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 403
- **Publication date:** 2003-01-10
- **Effective date:** 2003-03-11
- **HHS docket:** CMS-3047-F
## Abstract

This final rule amends the fire safety standards for hospitals, long-term care facilities, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, ambulatory surgery centers, hospices that provide inpatient services, religious nonmedical health care institutions, critical access hospitals, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly facilities. Further, this final rule adopts the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code and eliminates references in our regulations to all earlier editions.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/01/10/03-273/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-fire-safety-requirements-for-certain-health-care-facilities)
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