The 2010 Guidelines provides minimum program, space, and design needs for all clinical and support areas of hospitals, nursing facilities, freestanding psychiatric facilities, outpatient and rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care facilities. The document also includes minimum engineering design criteria for plumbing, medical gas, electrical, and HVAC systems. The Guidelines are currently referenced by more than 42 state departments of licensure or health. The 2010 Guidelines includes new material on acoustics, patient handling and movement, patient safety, bariatric patient care, cancer treatment, and emergency services.

2010 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities

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Facility Guidelines Institute

Administration & Medicine Economics

ASHE

ASHE is convinced that commissioning is critical to the success of every health care facility project. The ASHE Health Facility Commissioning Guidelines was developed to help health care organizations achieve the facilities they want. Although there are many excellent commissioning processes and guidelines in the marketplace already, none specifically addresses the complexities of commissioning health care facilities. The ASHE commissioning process-referred to as health facility commissioning (HFCx)-establishes a standard language and process for commissioning health care facilities that are cost-effective and efficient and deliver the desired return on investment. The ASHE HFCx guidelines assign accountability for actual building performance to the entire project team, including the health facility commissioning authority. The collaboration this approach encourages among project participants improves the project delivery team's ability to deliver a health care physical environment that meets the goals of the health care organization and the needs of its community. The HFCx guidelines provide the project team with a process and a robust set of tools to improve initial project commissioning collaboration, continuing commissioning behaviors, and retrocommissioning tactics.

Health Facility Commissioning Guidelines: Quality Through Collaboration

American Society for Healthcare Engineering

Electrical Systems Handbook For Health Care Facilities

Hugh O. Nash Jr.

Fieee

Fashe

Construction contractors, subcontractors, and others working in health care facilities need to understand that health care projects are significantly different from other types of commercial or institutional projects. This publication outlines the critical information that contractors, subcontractors, and other business partners need to know while working in health care construction-including practices related to fire and life safety, infection prevention, pressure relationships, utility system shutdowns, interim life safety measures, and project closeout.

Working in Health Care: A Guide for Facility Business Partners, Construction Professionals, and Subcontractors

Description Safe doors save lives. The ultimate purpose of a door maintenance program is to ensure people can move through buildings safely, especially in an emergency. Although doors serve necessary security, convenience, and temperature and cost control functions, these aspects are secondary to protecting people. Hospital door maintenance is closely scrutinized even as code requirements are regularly revised. The Inspecting and Maintaining Swinging Doors Handbook translates into layman's terms the codes and requirements for door safety in today's hospitals. Valuable information and tips for keeping doors in safe working condition are provided, including rules for maintaining swinging door assemblies and a readily accessible list of questions to ask when selecting door assemblies.

Inspecting and Maintaining Swinging Doors

Keith E. Pardoe

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