FGI 2018 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals

This is the first edition of the Guidelines in which requirements for hospitals, outpatient facilities, and residential care facilities are presented in three independent documents. Facility types covered in the 2018 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals include general hospitals, freestanding emergency care facilities, critical access hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, children’s hospitals, and mobile/transportable medical units.

Changes in the 2018 Hospital Guidelines include a new section on accommodations for care of patients of size; addition of an option for flexibility by combining pre- and post-procedure patient care areas; and a complete overhaul of imaging requirements. Other notable updates address telemedicine spaces, acoustic design, airborne infection isolation rooms, sterile processing facilities, and mobile/transportable units.

As with the previous two editions, ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 170: Ventilation of Health Care Facilities was incorporated into the Guidelines to provide ventilation requirements for health care facilities. The 2018 edition of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals includes the 2017 edition of ASHRAE 170, with all addenda approved through November 2017.