Kitchen in nursing home as place

This code identifies an injury or adverse event that occurred specifically within the kitchen area of a nursing home facility. It pinpoints the exact location within the institutional setting where the external cause of the patient's condition originated.

Use this code when documenting an injury, such as a burn, fall, or laceration, that a nursing home resident or staff member sustained while in the nursing home's kitchen. It is appropriate for incidents like slips on spilled liquids, cuts from kitchen equipment, or scalds from hot food preparation in this specific environment.

• Always use this code as a secondary code to describe the place of occurrence, never as a primary diagnosis.
• Ensure the medical record explicitly states the incident took place in the "kitchen" of a "nursing home" or "skilled nursing facility."
• Pair this code with an external cause code (V00-Y99) and the primary diagnosis code for the injury itself.