What biomedical equipment services does Isolated Power System provide?

We provide preventive maintenance, corrective repair, calibration, electrical safety inspection, and isolated power system (IPS) testing for hospitals, surgery centers, and clinics.

Are your biomedical technicians certified?

Yes. Our BMETs are certified and our work follows Joint Commission, CMS, and NFPA 99 standards so your facility stays survey-ready.

How fast can you respond to an equipment failure?

We offer scheduled preventive maintenance plus priority on-call service to minimize downtime on critical medical equipment.

Do you help with regulatory compliance and documentation?

We do. Every service includes the documentation you need for Joint Commission, CMS, and NFPA 99 surveys.

How do I request service or a quote?

Call (424) 204-2382 or email info@isolatedpowersystem.com and our team will schedule an assessment.

Isolated Power System | Annual Inspection, Recertification & Line Isolation Monitor Testing (NFPA 99)

Isolated power your surgical suite can be certified on.

We inspect, recertify, and commission the isolated power systems and line isolation monitors that keep your operating rooms electrically safe. Annual recertification, new-system acceptance testing, and hazard-current verification — with the documentation your Joint Commission surveyor expects to see.

Educational

NFPA 99 (2026) Wet-Procedure-Location Accountability Framework: A Field Tester's Walkthrough of Every New Documentation Line

NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, classifies operating rooms as wet procedure locations unless a facility governing body's risk assessment determines otherwise. Where isolated power is installed, the standard expects the line isolation monitor and system to be verified and the results retained. The recurring challenge for testers is not the electrical measurement — it is proving, on paper, who performed the verification, what was observed, and how any deficiency was resolved.

That is where a disciplined accountability framework earns its keep. For each wet procedure location we document the responsible party, the conditions verified, the total-hazard-current reading against the roughly 5 mA LIM alarm threshold, and the corrective action taken when something falls out of specification. Every line ties back to the panel's nameplate and the room it serves, so an auditor can follow the trail without guesswork.

CMS and accrediting organizations survey hospitals against a safe environment of care, and vague or missing records are a common source of findings. We walk facilities through the documentation line by line, leave behind clean templates on every annual visit, and frame corrective-action language the way surveyors expect to read it — clear, specific, and closed out.

Worth planning for now: the next edition of the code is already taking shape. Trade coverage of the 2027 edition of NFPA 99 describes changes across electrical systems, medical gas and vacuum, and — newer territory for a facilities code — cybersecurity, along with a move away from the fixed requirement to place isolated power and telecommunications rooms at 20,000-square-foot intervals in favor of a risk- and function-informed framework. That direction should sound familiar, because it is the same logic that already governs wet procedure locations: the facility’s own documented risk assessment decides, and the documentation has to hold up under someone else’s reading. Facilities that keep clean, defensible line-isolation-monitor records today will adopt the next edition with paperwork rather than panic. We follow the revision cycle so our templates stay current, and we will tell you which of your rooms the change is likely to touch before your next annual visit.

Sources: NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code; CMS Conditions of Participation; Facilities Dive — NFPA Health Care Facilities Code 2027 Updates

May 7, 202613 min read

Informative

Joint Commission's Spring 2026 Interim E-Edition: NFPA Alignment Notes for HTM Programs

The Joint Commission periodically updates its accreditation standards and Environment of Care requirements to stay aligned with the codes it surveys against — principally NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, and NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code. For healthcare technology management (HTM) programs, the practical question with any update is narrow: does it change what we test, how often we test it, or how we document it?

For isolated power systems, the enduring requirements are stable — verify the line isolation monitor and system on schedule, confirm the total-hazard-current alarm behaves at roughly the 5 mA threshold, and keep records that a surveyor can follow. What updates tend to touch is documentation and risk-assessment expectations around wet procedure locations, which is exactly where HTM programs should focus their quarterly review.

We help facilities read each update through an IPS lens: flag the items that actually affect line-isolation testing and recordkeeping, ignore the noise, and make sure the current quarter's documentation reflects any change. The aim is to keep programs aligned with The Joint Commission and NFPA without adding busywork that does not improve patient safety.

Sources: The Joint Commission; NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code

May 14, 20267 min read

Field Notes

Dispatch: The 1.7 mA "Phantom" That Only Appeared When the Coffee Machine Across the Hall Was On

One reading. Three retests. The total hazard current would creep up by 0.4 mA every weekday morning at 6:35 AM, then settle back by mid-shift. A drifting LIM reading that comes and goes is one of the more frustrating findings in the field, because the honest answer to "is the system safe right now?" is "it depends on the time of day" — and that is not an answer you can put in a survey record.

The line isolation monitor sums the leakage current of everything connected to the isolated system. In a healthy panel the total hazard current sits well below the roughly 5 mA alarm point NFPA 99 associates with the LIM. When a reading wanders, the cause is almost always additive: one more load, one more length of cable, one more insulation path to ground. Here the trigger was a perfectly innocent appliance on a nearby circuit — but chasing it exposed how the panel feeders had been re-pulled during last year's renovation, adding capacitive coupling nobody had tested for at acceptance.

That is the long tail of the story. The appliance was a red herring; the renovation wiring was the real finding. It is also the argument for acceptance testing after every OR build or remodel, and for taking a small, repeatable drift seriously instead of retesting until it looks fine.

Sources: NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code; AAMI

May 19, 20266 min read

Isolated power & NFPA 99 in 2026

Under NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, operating rooms are classified as wet procedure locations unless a facility risk assessment determines otherwise, and isolated power systems with line isolation monitors remain the preferred means of protection where power interruption cannot be tolerated. Where isolated power is installed, the line isolation monitor and system must be verified at least annually — the recurring recertification we perform to keep your surgical suites survey-ready.