Licensing Standards for DayCare Centers

Section 10:122-8.4
Requirements for Additional Physical Facilities for Centers Serving Sick Children

GEN (a) There shall be a minimum of 50 square feet of net indoor floor spacex "space:square feet required:sick child care"x "sick child care:physical facilities" for each child.

(b) An individual room or a specific area within a large room, which is separated from other areas of the room by a partition or room divider, shall be available to separate and prevent contact between children who have different illnesses, symptoms of illness or diseases.

(c) Centers whose policies allow for the care of children who have chicken poxx "chicken pox" or other illnesses that require isolation shall provide an isolation room for these children. Each isolation room shall have the following:

1. Continuous barriers that are floor to ceiling in height; and

2. Its own toilet facilityx "toilet facility:sick children", unless children using the isolation room can reach and use another toilet facility without coming into contact with other children.

(e) Centers that serve only sick children shall not be required to have the following:

1. An outdoor space for the children's physical activities or its equivalent, as specified in N.J.A.C. 10:122-5.3(a)7; and

2. A room or area in a separate section of the center for children who become ill, as specified in N.J.A.C. 5.2(p)4.

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