Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities
Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities(Guidelines) are developed through a consensus process similar to one approved by the American National Standards Institute. This process brings together the members of the Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC) of the Facility Guidelines Institute Inc. (FGI). The HGRC is a balanced group of volunteers representing varied viewpoints and interests in health care facility planning, design, and construction. It considers proposals for change received from the public; achieves consensus on health care facility planning, design, and construction issues; and develops proposed revisions to the previous edition of these Guidelines. The proposed revisions are then published for public comment and revised by the HGRC, as needed, in response to those comments. The product of this revision process is then compiled and published as a new edition of the Guidelines by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
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Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities Content
- Contents
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- Preface
- Major Additions and Revisions
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Environment of Care
- Site
- Equipment
- Planning, Design, and Construction
- Common Requirements
- Part 2—Hospitals
- General Hospitals
- Small Inpatient Primary Care Hospitals
- Psychiatric Hospitals
- Rehabilitation Facilities
- Part 3—Ambulatory Care Facilities
- Outpatient Facilities
- Primary Care Outpatient Centers
- Small Primary (Neighborhood) Outpatient Facilities
- Freestanding Outpatient Diagnostic and Treatment Facilities
- Freestanding Birthing Centers
- Outpatient Surgical Facilities
- Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Facilities
These Guidelines are made available for a wide variety of public and private uses. These include reference in laws, codes, rules, and regulations, as well as use in private self-regulation and standardization of space and equipment requirements and the promotion of safe practices and methods in planning, design, and construction for various types of health care facilities.
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