Building Type Basics for Healthcare FacilitiesThe Fastest way to Straighten out the Learning Curve on Specialized Design Projects Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-use format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips. Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities provides the essential information needed to initiate designs for acute care hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and specialty centers. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, it combines an overview of the needs and concerns of healthcare industry clients with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. |
Contents
Preface Stephen Kliment | vii |
Perspective 1 | xiv |
Ancillary Departments | 9 |
Inpatient Care Facilities | 131 |
Ambulatory Care Facilities | 193 |
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accommodate adjacent allow ambulatory care ambulatory care centers Anatomical pathology Architect Arrowhead Regional building cancer cardiac cardiac catheterization CASEWORK cath lab catheterization ceiling chemotherapy circulation clean codes core corridor cost delivery dialysis efficiency emergency department endoscopy environment examination rooms factors film flexibility flow fluoroscopy functions Health healthcare healthcare facilities hospital imaging include the following inpatient inpatient and outpatient inpatient units Key design considerations linen located lockers mammography materials management monitoring natural light needs nursing station nursing units obstetrics offices operating rooms Patient Bed patient rooms pediatric physicians pneumatic tube prep prep/recovery area procedure rooms Proton Therapy radiation therapy radiography Regional Medical Center rehabilitation renal dialysis requirements separate Soiled utility special diagnostics specimen sq ft staff storage support areas supporting spaces surgery surgical suite testing therapy tissue toilets transport treatment areas trend types typically utility room visitors waiting area wayfinding