Healthcare Pest Reference

A national authoritative reference mapping U.S. federal, state, and accrediting body pest control compliance requirements for healthcare facilities. Primary-source anchored. Independently verified. Maintained by a Board Certified Entomologist.

For hospital risk management, infection prevention, plant operations, accreditation readiness teams, healthcare procurement, and legal counsel litigating healthcare pest matters.

Phase 1 in progress. The current reference covers 7 authorities across the federal regulatory spine, with the Utah state framework as a depth prototype. Subsequent phases expand to additional state regulatory frameworks, accrediting bodies, standards bodies, and institutional credentialing references.

Authority Index

Federal Regulators

CDC HICPAC Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control — Pest Control Recommendations CDC HICPAC Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities (2003), Part II, Section E.V.
CMS Conditions of Participation for Hospitals — Physical Environment 42 CFR Part 482, Subpart C, Section 482.41
CMS State Operations Manual Appendix A — Hospital Survey Protocol CMS Pub. 100-07, State Operations Manual, Appendix A, Rev. 238 (03-20-2026)
EPA Integrated Pest Management in Health Care Facilities Toolkit (2021) EPA Publication No. 907K21002, Integrated Pest Management in Health Care Facilities (July 2021)
FDA Food Code 2022 — Pest Control in Healthcare Food Service FDA Food Code 2022, Sections 6-501.111 and 6-202.13
OSHA Hazard Communication Standard — Pesticide Storage and SDS Requirements 29 CFR 1910.1200

Accrediting Bodies

The Joint Commission 2026 Physical Environment Chapter — Pest Activity and Pesticide Storage The Joint Commission, Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH), Physical Environment (PE) Chapter, effective January 1, 2026 via Accreditation 360

How This Reference Works

Each authority page is a self-contained explanation of one regulatory authority. Pages include the verbatim regulatory text where publicly available, a plain-language summary, the facility types the requirement applies to, the documentation evidence surveyors expect, the citation pathway surveyors use, and explicit notes on any adjacent claims that have been investigated and disconfirmed as fabricated or weakly sourced.

Every claim on this reference carries a source tier rating and a confidence rating. Citations should be verified against the primary source for any litigation-grade application. The reference notes where primary sources are paywalled and institutional access is required for direct verbatim verification.

See the methodology page for the source tier hierarchy, confidence ratings, verification discipline, and the explicit catalog of fabricated claims that have been investigated and excluded from this reference.

Maintained by Trenton L. Frazer, Board Certified Entomologist (BCE #B3413, General Entomology specialty), MS Entomology, University of Florida. See the about page for credentialing detail and the reference's relationship to the operator's commercial and consulting practices.