1Normal power
Hospital-grade receptacles
Listed hospital grade and marked with a green dot. The NEC requires hospital-grade receptacles at each patient bed location, typically split between normal and critical branch circuits.
2Critical branch
Emergency system receptacles
Fed from the essential electrical system, so they’re back on generator power within 10 seconds of an outage. Red is the most common identifying color.
3Critical branch
Exam & reading lights
Task lighting at the bed for exams and procedures, often on the critical branch in the design.
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LED exam & patient room fixtures
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Switches & dimmers
4Low voltage
Nurse call & low voltage
We supply the cable, boxes, rings and plates. The nurse call system itself comes from your systems vendor.
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Low-voltage cable
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Boxes & mud rings
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Wall plates
5Normal power
Ambient lighting
General room lighting, with sealed or gasketed troffers where the spec calls for them.
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LED troffers & flat panels
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Occupancy sensors
6Life safety branch
Egress lighting
Exit signs and means of egress lighting for the corridor and the path out of the building, fed from the life safety branch.
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Emergency lights & exit signs
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Recessed downlights
7Normal power
Switches & controls
Room switching and dimming in the device grade and finish your spec calls for.
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Switches
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Dimmers
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Wall plates
8Normal power
Night lights
Low-level lighting so staff can move through the room at night without waking the patient.
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LED night & step lights
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Occupancy sensors
Example room. Branch assignments vary by design, so always follow the engineer’s drawings, NEC Article 517 and NFPA 99.
