Guidelines Committee Seeks Comments Regarding Health Care Facilities
The Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC), with the support of the Facility Guidelines Institute and the American Institute of Architects, seeks proposals from the public for the development of the 2010 edition of the "Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities." More than 40 states use the guidelines to regulate the design and construction of health care facilities. Architects, engineers, and health care professionals also use it on a daily basis as a guideline or reference.
The Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC), with the support of the Facility Guidelines Institute and the American Institute of Architects, seeks proposals from the public for the development of the 2010 edition of the "Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities." More than 40 states use the guidelines to regulate the design and construction of health care facilities. Architects, engineers, and health care professionals also use it on a daily basis as a guideline or reference.
The document recommends minimum program, space, and equipment needs for clinical and support areas of hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, rehabilitation facilities, and nursing and other long-term care facilities. It also addresses minimum engineering design criteria for plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and HVAC systems.
To keep the guidelines current with changes in medical practice, medical technology, and the administration of health care, a new edition of the document is published every four or five years. The content of the book is updated through a consensus process that offers two opportunities for public participation — a proposal period for suggesting additions, deletions, or changes to the existing text and a comment period for recommending modifications to the committee-generated draft document. The HGRC is the consensus body that takes the information provided through this public process and develops it into the final language of the document.
All interested parties are invited to propose changes — either revisions or additions of new material — to any part of the 2006 edition of the guidelines. The public proposal period extends from May 1 to September 30, 2007.
For more information about the guidelines and the revision process, visit
www.fgi-guidelines.org and
www.aia.org/aah_gd_hospcons.
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