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Licensed Fire Protection Contractor

Fire Protection That
Never Interrupts
Patient Care.

We thread sprinkler mains through occupied hospital wings, coordinate with your infection control team on every phase, and hand your compliance officer a binder — not a verbal update.

Schedule a Facility Walk-ThroughSee our process
NFPA 99 CompliantZero Floor ShutdownsJoint Commission Ready

CareGuard / FP-001

REV: 2026-02-26

Hospital Wing 3-B

FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS

SCALE: NTS / ISOMETRIC VIEW

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SPRINKLER MAINSTANDPIPEFIRE ALARM PANELCLEAN AGENTPULL STATIONINSP.02/26WING 3-BN

Active Systems

Sprinkler Main

Standpipe

Fire Alarm Panel

Clean Agent

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Healthcare Projects

Acute care, surgical centers, and MOBs

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Patient Floor Closures

Across every occupied-space installation

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First-Pass AHJ Approval

Permit sets accepted without major correction

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States Licensed

Including CA, TX, FL, NY, IL, and PA

Compliant with:NFPA 13NFPA 99NFPA 72NFPA 25Joint Commission ECIBC 2021ICRA Guidelines
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Transparent Process

From deficiency report to
final inspection card.

Every phase is documented, coordinated with your infection control team, and handed off with a paper trail your compliance officer can actually use.

Site Survey

Deficiency Report & Code Analysis

We start by walking every riser room, reading your existing as-builts, and mapping every gap against NFPA 13, NFPA 99, and the current edition your AHJ enforces. You receive a written deficiency matrix before a single drawing is produced.

Field note: We cross-reference your last Joint Commission survey findings against actual field conditions — not just what the drawings say.

Engineering

Stamped Drawings & Hydraulic Calculations

Our licensed fire protection engineers produce hydraulic calculations and permit-ready drawings sized for your actual water supply — not a template. Every drawing set is coordinated with your MEP team before submission.

Field note: We include infection-control zone overlays on all drawings so your ICRA coordinator sees exactly which corridors are affected during rough-in.

Installation

Phased Work in Occupied Spaces

We schedule all tie-ins, drain-downs, and impairments in coordination with your infection control and nursing supervisors. Every hot-work permit is routed through your facilities department before a torch is lit. Patient floors stay open.

Field note: ICRA Class III barriers are erected and inspected before any ceiling tile is lifted in an occupied wing — documented with photos for your compliance file.

Commissioning

System Testing & Flow Documentation

Full forward-flow tests, alarm activation sequences, and tamper-switch verification are documented in a commissioning package formatted for your AHJ and your facility's annual compliance binder. Nothing verbal, everything written.

Field note: Flow test results include static and residual pressure curves plotted against your building's original design basis — so you know if your supply has degraded.

Final Sign-Off

AHJ Inspection & Certificate of Occupancy

We schedule and attend every AHJ inspection, respond to correction items the same week, and deliver a final close-out package: redline as-builts, O&M manuals, and a signed inspection certificate ready for your compliance officer.

Field note: Our close-out package is formatted to match the Joint Commission's Environment of Care documentation requirements — your compliance officer can file it directly.

Nothing skipped.
Nothing assumed.

Every project follows this sequence. Every deliverable is documented. Your compliance officer gets a binder, not a verbal update.

Start with a Walk-Through
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Client Accounts

From the people who
live in these buildings.

Facility directors, compliance officers, and construction managers — the three people a fire protection contractor has to earn trust from simultaneously.

"We had a 47-item NFPA 99 deficiency list and a Joint Commission survey in four months. CareGuard walked every floor with me, gave me a written remediation matrix in two weeks, and closed 43 of those items without a single patient floor ever going offline. The other four were design-basis issues we'd been ignoring for a decade."
6-floor acute care tower — phased sprinkler main replacement
Margaret Holloway, Director of Facilities, professional headshot

Margaret Holloway

Director of Facilities

St. Catherine Regional Medical Center, Columbus OH

"Construction managers don't like surprises in live surgical centers. CareGuard coordinated every impairment notice with my infection control officer and OR scheduling before anything touched the ceiling. Their hot-work permit documentation was the cleanest I've seen in 22 years of healthcare construction."
New clean-agent suppression system in 4 OR suites
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David Nwachukwu

Senior Construction Manager

Meridian Ambulatory Surgery Center, Houston TX

"The close-out package they delivered was formatted exactly the way The Joint Commission wants to see it. I filed it directly into our EOC binder. No reformatting, no chasing down certificates. That alone saved my team two days of administrative work."
Campus-wide NFPA 25 inspection program + standpipe upgrades
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Priya Krishnamurthy

Compliance & Regulatory Affairs Officer

North Valley Health System, Sacramento CA

Ready to start

Schedule a facility
walk-through.

Bring your last deficiency report. We'll walk your riser rooms, review your current impairment logs, and give you a plain-language assessment of what needs to happen and in what order — before you spend a dollar on engineering.

The first conversation covers: current code status, highest-risk deficiencies, rough project sequencing, and whether your existing water supply supports the system you're planning. No sales pitch. One hour.

Schedule a Facility Walk-ThroughDownload Healthcare Compliance Checklist

No commitment required — we've done this for 214 healthcare facilities.

What the first call covers

  • Current NFPA 99 / NFPA 13 compliance status

    Against your AHJ's adopted edition

  • Highest-priority deficiency items

    Ranked by life-safety risk, not cost

  • Project sequencing for occupied spaces

    Which phases can run concurrently

  • Water supply adequacy

    Static/residual review against design basis

  • Rough timeline and budget range

    Based on comparable facility projects

"By the time the button appears, you already know what the first conversation will cover."

Free Resource

Healthcare Fire Protection
Compliance Checklist

32-item checklist covering NFPA 99, NFPA 13, NFPA 72, and Joint Commission EC standards. Formatted for your annual compliance review.