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Health 400 | OB-GYN
Today we break down regulations, codes, standards and open-source literature governing the safety and sustainability of university-affiliated medical research and healthcare delivery facilities with special consideration needed for obstetrics, gynecological and neonatal clinical practice and research.
Healthcare Organization Management
This relatively new committee administered by the United States provides business and government with a template for developing national healthcare policy. Public consultation on draft titles arrive on at a fairly brisk pace.
Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care
According to 2019 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the preterm birth rate in the United States was approximately 10.23%. This means that about 1 in 10 babies in the U.S. was born prematurely, before completing 37 weeks of gestation. The average age of USA women when they deliver their first baby is 27 years old. Twenty seven years ago the average age of first-time mothers in the USA was 24 years old.
Quadrivium: Winter
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Design & Operation of Health Care Facilities
This standard applies to patient care areas and related support areas within health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing facilities, outpatient facilities, and their site. There is a fair amount of cross-referencing of titles between the ASHRAE and International Code Council standards catalog. Public consultation on Addendum m regarding definition of "room units" and the heating and cooling of such units closes January 27th
Healthcare Occupancies
In large research universities revenue from the medical research and healthcare delivery enterprises can run over half the gross revenue of the institution. Consideration for this occupancy class propagates across the catalogs of other consortia and ANSI-accredited healthcare standards developers. The public input period on the Group B tranche of titles closed January 10th. ICC staff will curate that input for presentation at the April Group B Committee Action Hearings.
Current Issues and Recent Research
The Joint IEEE Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Society Committee to which we belong has formulated response to the 2026 National Electrical Code Second Draft and will submit its ballot December 27th. While all the issues are fresh in mind it is never unwise to draft proposals for the 2029 National Electrical Code which will begin accepting new public input some time after release of the new edition in the fall.
Maternity Metrix
American women are more likely to die during and from childbirth than women in any other highly-developed country. Founded by Professor Akkeneel Talsma, the MaternityMetrix app provides guidance and clinically-vetted evidence to support new parents before birth, during labor and throughout the new family yea to support new parents before birth, during labor and throughout the new family years.