3701-7-12 Maternity home: nursery.

(A) Each maternity home that offers newborn services shall maintain a newborn nursery appropriate to the number of newborns to be cared for at any one time. Each newborn nursery room shall be equipped with the following:

(1) A floor area of twenty-four square feet for each newborn station with a minimum of two feet between newborn stations; or

(2) Maternity homes providing care to newborns requiring close observation shall provide a minimum floor area of fifty square feet with a minimum of four feet between and at all sides of newborn stations;

(3) At least one door that exits to a main corridor; and

(4) At least one sink capable of hands free operation.

(B) Maternity homes using a commercial newborn formula shall provide for the storage and handling of the formula. Maternity homes preparing newborn formula on site shall provide a separate room or area for the preparation of a safe formula using aseptic technique. If any formula requires the addition of more than two measured ingredients, or requires the addition of an ingredient that requires measurements not available routinely in the nursery, the maternity home shall provide a separate formula room.

Effective: 08/01/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 03/26/2008 and 03/01/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 3701.34, 3711.02

Rule Amplifies: 3711.04, 3711.05, 3711.06

Prior Effective Dates: 7/15/1976, 4/30/03