K-Tag K361

Corridors – Areas Open to Corridor

This regulation establishes fire and life safety requirements for spaces open to corridors in healthcare facilities, specifically governing how waiting areas, nurse's stations, gift shops, cooking facilities, and similar spaces must comply with NFPA 2012 Life Safety Code sections 18.3.6.1 and 19.3.6.1. Facility operators must ensure that any non-patient-room, non-treatment-room, non-hazardous space open to a corridor meets the specified construction and safety criteria. This is a CMS survey tag applied during life safety inspections.

K361 Corridors – Areas Open to Corridor 
Spaces (other than patient sleeping rooms, treatment rooms and hazardous 
areas), waiting areas, nurse’s stations, gift shops, and cooking facilities, 
open to the corridor are in accordance with the criteria under 18.3.6.1 and 
19.3.6.1. 
18.3.6.1, 19.3.6.1 
Form CMS-2786R (07/2018) Page 24 

Name of Facility 2012 LIFE SAFETY CODE
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