New hospital blueprints to include all private rooms
Case Management Weekly, March 29, 2006
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The Facilities Guidelines Institute and the Academy of Architecture for Health at the American Institute of Architects will publish new guidelines in April for hospital construction that for the first time will require all private rooms. The guidelines, which are published every four years, are used by more than 40 state governments to establish hospital regulations, approve construction projects, and license operations.
Under the new guidelines, new hospital projects will have to include all private rooms, although the guidelines might exempt facilities that demonstrate the necessity of a two-bed arrangement, such as the need to maintain surge capacity in certain areas or the U.S.
Source: Wall Street Journal; California Healthline
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