The facility shall ensure each care unit contains:

1. (1) A nurse's station with convenient access to handwashing facilities;
2. (2) Nurse's charting area;
3. (3) Personnel communications area;
4. (4) Storage for supplies and personnel's personal effects;
5. (5) A personnel toilet room;
6. (6) A nurses' office;
7. (7) A clean workroom for the storage and assembly of supplies for nursing procedures, containing a work counter and sink;
8. (8) A soiled workroom, containing a work counter with a handwashing facility, a waste receptacle, soiled linen receptacles, a clinical sink with an exposed water trap seal, siphon jet or blowout action, and a bedpan flushing device;
9. (9) A medicine room adjacent to the nurse's station, containing a sink, refrigerator, locked storage, and facilities for preparation and administration of medication;
10. (10) A clean linen storage area in an enclosed storage space;
11. (11) A nourishment station for serviving between-meal nourishments that contains refrigerated storage, a self-dispensing ice machine, and a sink;
12. (12) An equipment storage room on each resident wing or floor for storage of resident care equipment;
13. (13) Resident bathing facilities containing one shower, bathtub, or whirlpool for each fifteen beds not individually served. Whirlpool units with lifts may serve thirty beds;
14. (14) A janitor's closet with a floor receptor or service sink, for storage of housekeeping supplies and equipment. The janitor's closet space and equipment may be incorporated into the soiled workroom; and

15. (15) Multipurpose rooms for personnel, residents, and residents' families, for conferences, reports, education, training sessions, and consultation.

    If the facility offers outpatient therapy services, the therapy unit must provide access to outpatient services without traversing resident areas. The therapy unit must be sized and equipped to accommodate the therapy modalities offered and contain locked records storage, hand sinks located convenient to treatment areas, and cubicle curtains for privacy at treatment areas.

Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; 4 SDR 14, effective September 14, 1977; 6 SDR 93, effective July 1, 1980; 14 SDR 81, effective December 10, 1987; 22 SDR 70, effective November 19, 1995; 24 SDR 90, effective January 4, 1998; transferred from § 44:04:13:03 , 42 SDR 51, effective October 13, 2015 ; 51 SDR 53, effective November 11, 2024 .

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13 .

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13 .

Prior versions effective: 2015-10-13.