Leviton Healthcare Facility Solutions

With over 100 years experience and a reputation for industry-leading reliability, innovation, and value, we’re the brand standard for the country’s premier health care facilities. Our state-of-the-art hospital grade wiring devices, high speed data connections, and energy-saving lighting controls contribute to a safer, more efficient health care environment while improving energy conservation.

Key Products for Healthcare Industry:

Hospital Grade Receptacles: Whether medical equipment is monitoring, testing, or providing essential fluids and medications, it is important that it is powered safely and reliably.  All Leviton Hospital Grade Receptacles undergo the most stringent UL testing to assure continuous, safe operation in any application requiring high-abuse tolerance, including health care facilities.  Features an impact-resistant thermoplastic nylon cover and body.
Lev-Lok Modular Devices: The perfect solution for lowering project costs, shortening project timelines, and improving overall quality of wiring device installation.  Pre-wired for quick change-outs, our Lev-Lok devices minimize service interruption—a must for mission critical environments. Lev-Lok wiring devices can be installed or changed out much quicker and safer than conventional wiring devices.
Antimicrobial Treated Devices: To help combat the spread of germs in public facilities, Leviton has developed antimicrobial treated wiring devices to help keep the surfaces of our switches and wallplates cleaner. By incorporating an antimicrobial additive into the product material, antimicrobial treated devices work to reduce the growth of bacteria on frequently touched switches and wallplates in between normal cleanings. When used together, the devices provide a complete antimicrobial solution.
Submetering Solutions: Delivering a scalable end-to-end solution for submetering with energy submeters, data collection hardware and energy information software, our energy management and tenant billing is easier and more affordable with VerifEye.  Develop your strategic energy management plan using revenue grade real-time energy usage information to measure, monitor and manage operations to improve your bottom line.

NFPA99 Healthcare Facilities Code: WebLink

With the shift to a risk-vs. occupancy-based approach and other major changes you're bound to have questions about NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code. Not correctly understanding the code can lead to major implications to the facility, especially when it comes to electrical infrastructure.

Code requirements are determined by the risks associated with the procedures performed instead of a building occupancy type

• Instead of categorizing each facility by Occupancy Type and then stating code requirements by occupancy type, NFPA 99 now defines risk categories and you assign a risk category to each facility system based upon the types of procedures that system supports

Select NFPA 99 2015 Edition Changes:

Patient Care Spaces

• The word “room” has been changed to “spaces”
  • Patient Care Room to Patient Care Spaces
• Patient care spaces will be classified to a certain category
• Patient Care Spaces: this reflects a change that was made in Chapter 6 to correlate with NFPA 70. In a large room there can be many different services provided in different spaces, and this new language assesses the risk in individual spaces within a room, rather than treating the room as a single risk factor.
• The change from patient care spaces to a certain category (for instance, from a “critical care room” to a “Category 1 space”) further establishes the risk-based approach used in NFPA 99. The health care organization must designate a category for the spaces based on the anticipated level of patient care that will be provided therein. Rather than labeling a room “critical care” or “general care”, this approach examines the risk to the patient based on the procedures that will be performed.

Minimum Number of Receptacles

• Revised - 6.3.2.2.6.2
  • (A), (B), (C) – Receptacle requirements could be met by locking or non-locking type, single, duplex, or quadruplex type, or any combination and to be listed hospital grade.
• This was added to correlate with Article 517 of NFPA 70 – the National Electrical Code

Wet Procedure Locations

• Revised - 6.3.2.2.8.5(B)
  • Removed requirement for testing receptacles at fixed intervals
  • Fixed electrical equipment does not normally require any periodic grounding checks, and there is no evidence supporting that the 6-month testing interval provides additional safety. The majority of NFPA 99 testing requirements are now based on failure experience rather than at specific time intervals.
• New - 6.3.2.2.8.8
  • New to the 2015 edition of the code. It is essential that if a GFCI trips, only one outlet is interrupted. Having the power interrupted to more than one outlet could result in loss of power to multiple pieces of equipment and uncertainty as to which outlets have power; this could create a serious risk to patient safety.

Branch Circuit Wiring

• Revised - 6.3.2.2.1
  • Changed “regular voltage wiring” to “wiring 600V or less”

Essential Electrical System / Life Safety Branch

• New - 6.4.2.2.1.5
  • This has been added to the 2015 edition of the code in order to clarify the relationship between NFPA 99 and Article 700 of NFPA 70. It is intended that only the life safety branch of the essential electrical system comply with Article 700, as it is the only system that is comparable to the emergency systems in other types of occupancies.

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