Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 17 - Public Assistance and Welfare Services
227 - Licensure of Hospitals for Mentally Ill Persons
Section 17-227-14e - Safety

A. The hospital shall be structurally constituted, equipped, operated and maintained so as to sustain its safe and sanitary characteristics and to prevent or minimize all health hazards in the facility for the protection of patients, personnel and visitors.

B. The hospital shall have written plans for the proper and timely care of casualties arising from both external and internal disasters, and shall periodically rehearse these plans.

C. The hospital shall have a written plan providing emergency services or arranging for the provision of such services to meet the needs of the patients and the facility.