The facility shall ensure each care unit contains a service area which includes:

1. (1) A nurses' station with convenient access to handwashing facilities;
2. (2) Nurses' charting;
3. (3) Doctors' charting;
4. (4) Communications;
5. (5) Storage for supplies and personnel's personal effects;
6. (6) A personnel toilet room;
7. (7) A nurses' office;
8. (8) A clean workroom for the storage and assembly of supplies for nursing procedures, containing a work counter and sink;
9. (9) A soiled workroom with a work counter, 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;
10. (10) A medicine room adjacent to the staff station containing sink, refrigerator, locked storage, and facilities for preparation and administration of medication;
11. (11) A clean linen storage area in an enclosed storage space;
12. (12) A nourishment station containing refrigerated storage, self-dispensing ice machine, and a sink for serving between-meal nourishments;
13. (13) An equipment storage room on each patient wing or floor for storage of patient care equipment;
14. (14) Patient bathing facilities containing one shower, bathtub, or whirlpool for each of the fifteen beds not individually served. Whirlpool units with lifts may serve thirty beds;
15. (15) A janitor's closet for storage of housekeeping supplies and equipment, containing a floor receptor or service sink. The janitor's closet space and equipment may be incorporated into the soiled workroom;
16. (16) Isolation facilities for the use of those prone to infections as well as those suffering from infections. One isolation room must be provided for every thirty acute-care beds. The entry into the isolation room must be through an anteroom equipped with handwashing, gowning space and supplies, and space to handle clean and soiled supplies for the room or rooms served. Toilet, bathing, and handwashing facilities must be available for the isolation room patient without entry into the anteroom or general corridor. A nursing unit is not required to maintain an isolation facility if the facility is provided elsewhere in the institution;
17. (17) Playroom facilities for pediatric patients; and

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

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

Source: 42 SDR 51, effective October 13, 2015 ; 50 SDR 62, effective November 27, 2023 .

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13 (3).

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13 .

Prior versions effective: 2015-10-13.