Life safety and building code specialist

Brandon Deaver

CHFM

Brandon Deaver is a Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM) who directs Environment of Care, Life Safety and Emergency Management programs for healthcare facilities. He has led hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers through accreditation and CMS surveys with The Joint Commission, DNV and AAAHC. Since 2021 he has been President and Principal Life Safety Consultant of Survey Ready Consulting in Norman, Oklahoma, where he serves as the regional Life Safety Code expert for Encompass Health rehabilitation hospitals in the Texas Southwest region.

His work centers on NFPA 101 (Life Safety Code), NFPA 99 (Health Care Facilities Code) and NFPA 80 (fire doors), along with the testing standards for sprinklers, fire alarms and emergency power (NFPA 25, 72 and 110). He runs unannounced mock surveys, writes Plans of Correction, puts Interim Life Safety Measures in place during system outages and construction, and oversees plan reviews, infection control risk assessments and commissioning for new healthcare buildings. NFPA 101 and NFPA 99 treat nursing homes and hospitals as the same health care occupancy, so the codes he applies in hospitals are the ones that govern skilled nursing facilities.

Earlier, he directed facilities operations for 17 ambulatory surgery centers in North Texas and Oklahoma, served as Facility Management Director, Safety Officer and Emergency Management Coordinator at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Dallas, and as Regional Vice President at Vanguard Resources oversaw plant operations and regulatory compliance at 18 healthcare facilities in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arizona. At Methodist McKinney Hospital he led three consecutive CMS accreditation surveys with no condition-level deficiencies. He began in healthcare as a field service engineer for Steris Corporation and served six years in the U.S. Navy as a Fire Controlman.

Areas of focus

• Life Safety Code & NFPA ComplianceNFPA 101 and NFPA 99 (2012 editions), fire door assemblies (NFPA 80), and testing of sprinklers, fire alarms and emergency power (NFPA 25, 72 and 110).
• Survey Readiness & Plans of CorrectionMock surveys, Plans of Correction and survey defense under CMS Conditions of Participation, The Joint Commission, DNV and AAAHC.
• Emergency Management & Interim Life Safety MeasuresEmergency management programs, Interim Life Safety Measures during outages and construction, and infection control risk assessments.

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