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CMS Manual System Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Pub. 100-07 State Operations Provider Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Transmittal 99 Date: January 31, 2014 Transmittal 89, dated August 30, 2013, is being rescinded and replaced by Transmittal 99, dated January 31, 2014, to include Appendix I erroneously omitted. All other information remains the same. SUBJECT: Revised State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendices A, I, L, and W I. SUMMARY OF CHANGES: Clarification is provided in the SOM appendices for permitting certain new and existing health care facility ventilation systems to operate at a relative humidity equal to or greater than 20 percent, in accordance with the 2012 edition of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities and the referenced 2008 edition of ASHRAE Standard 170, Ventilation of Health Care Facilities, Addendum D.
• Review monitoring records for temperature to ensure that appropriate levels are maintained. • Review humidity maintenance records for anesthetizing locations to ensure, if monitoring determined humidity levels were not within acceptable parameters, that corrective actions were performed in a timely manner to achieve acceptable levels.
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