Fundamentals of Health Care Facility Electrical Power Systems

With daunting aspects such as ever-changing codes and standards, increasing medical complexity, and dwindling capital budgets, hospitals and health care facilities are among the most challenging building projects. Health care facility electrical systems are complex, difficult to design, expensive to build and subject to a plethora of codes and standards as well as intensely regulated by authorities having jurisdiction over their design and construction. With new medical technologies continuing to arrive on the scene, healthcare facility electrical systems are ever changing. This course provides an introduction to the topic of healthcare facility electrical systems.
Recognize the importance of electrical distribution to health care facilities, and how it differs from other types of buildings Identify the codes, standards and guidelines which govern the design of health care facility electrical systems Describe the elements of a health care facility’s Essential Electrical System