2024 NFPA 99 Health Care Facilities Code

NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code 2024 edition establishes performance-based and prescriptive requirements for the installation, inspection, testing, and maintenance of systems and equipment in health care facilities — including hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care centers, and limited care settings. Coverage spans medical gas and vacuum systems, electrical systems, emergency electrical systems, gas equipment, hyperbaric facilities, dental gas and vacuum systems, fire protection, and emergency management. The 2024 edition introduces significant updates to medical gas system quantity limits, auxiliary connections, cryogenic liquid handling, pressure-drop calculations, and designer qualification references. Who Uses NFPA 99 Required by health care facility engineers, medical gas system designers and installers, electrical engineers, facility managers, AHJ officials, and inspectors responsible for ITM compliance and system design in hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care