# Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Fire Safety Requirements for Certain Health Care Facilities; Amendment
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Interim final rule with comment period. · Published 2005-03-25 · Effective 2005-05-24 · 70 FR 15229
## Document
- **Document number:** 05-5919
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 70 FR 15229
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 403
- **Publication date:** 2005-03-25
- **Effective date:** 2005-05-24
- **HHS docket:** CMS-3145-IFC
## Abstract

This interim final rule with comment period adopts the substance of the April 15, 2004 temporary interim amendment (TIA) 00-1 (101), Alcohol Based Hand Rub Solutions, an amendment to the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code, published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). This amendment will allow certain health care facilities to place alcohol-based hand rub dispensers in egress corridors under specified conditions. This interim final rule with comment period also requires that nursing facilities install smoke detectors in resident rooms and public areas if they do not have a sprinkler system installed throughout the facility or a hard-wired smoke detection system in those areas.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2005/03/25/05-5919/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-fire-safety-requirements-for-certain-health-care-facilities-amendment)
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