(1) A health care facility must be constructed and maintained so as to prevent entrance and harborage of rats, mice, insects, flies, or other vermin.

(2) Hand cleansing soap or detergent and individual towels must be available at each lavatory in the facility. A waste receptacle must be located near each lavatory.

(3) A health care facility shall develop and follow a written infection control surveillance program describing the procedures that must be utilized by the entire facility staff in the identification, investigation, and mitigation of infections acquired in the facility.

(4) Cleaners used in cleaning bathtubs, showers, lavatories, urinals, toilet bowls, toilet seats, and floors must contain fungicides or germicides with current EPA registration for that purpose.

(5) Cleaning devices used for lavatories, toilet bowls, showers, or bathtubs may not be used for other purposes. Those utensils used to clean toilets or urinals must not be allowed to contact other cleaning devices.

(6) Dry dust mops and dry dust cloths may not be used for dusting or other cleaning purposes. Treated mops, wet mops, treated cloths, moist cloths or other means approved by the department which will not spread soil from one place to another must be used for dusting and cleaning and must be stored separately from the cleaning devices described in (5) above.

(7) A minimum of 10 foot-candles of light must be available in all rooms and hallways, with the following exceptions:

(a) all reading lamps must have a capacity to provide a minimum of 30 foot-candles of light;

(b) all toilet and bathing areas must be provided with a minimum of 30 foot-candles of light;

(c) general lighting in food preparation areas must be a minimum of 50 foot-candles of light;

(d) hallways must be illuminated at all times by at least a minimum of five foot-candles of light at the floor.