Resources Associated with the 2010 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities

Sound & Vibration: Design Guidelines for Health Care Facilities
This document is copyright protected and controlled by the Acoustics Research Council; copies can be purchased from ARC.org. As well, a read-only, seachable (but non-downloadable, non-printable) version of the document is available by clicking here.

Patient Handling and Movement Assessments: A White Paper
The PHAMA white paper (pdf) was written by members of the Specialty Subcommittee on Patient Movement of the 2010 Health Guidelines Revision Committee. It provides information that can be used by those responding to the new requirement to prepare a PHAMA as well as by anyone interested in considering use of patient handling and movement eqiupment in a health care facility.

Draft Guidelines for Critical Access Hospitals
A task group of the 2010 Health Guidelines Revision Committee and outside stakeholders drafted guidelines for critical access hospitals (pdf) near the end of the 2010 Guidelines revision cycle. The draft is provided here for public consideration; proposals to make changes to it will be requested during the public proposal period of the 2014 Guidelines revision cycle.

Resources for Selecting Architectural Details, Surfaces, and Furnishings for Health Care Facilities
This list of resources (pdf) was compiled by two members of the Specialty Subcommitee on Surfaces of the 2010 Health Guidelines Revision Committee. Others are invited to propose additions to the list.

Research Supported by FGI

One purpose of the Facility Guidelines Institute is to fund research that will lead to improvements in health care facility design and construction and in the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities. Links to published research will appear here as they become available.

Infection Control Topics
Two articles published in the June 2010 edition of the American Journal of Infection Control report on research that was funded in part by the Facility Guidelines Institute:

• Bartley, J. M.; R. N. Olmsted; and J. Haas. "Current views of health care design and construction: Practical implications for safer, cleaner environments." The role of infection preventionists in health care facility design and construction is discussed in this article, using the 2010 edition of the Guidelines as a basis.
  
• Memarzadeh, F.; R. N. Olmsted; and J. M. Bartley. "Applications of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation disinfection in health care facilities: Effective adjunct, but not stand-alone technology." This article reviews scientific evidence regarding the use of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) in health care facilities and reports that UVGI should only be used in conjunction with other accepted infection control practices.