Department Of Veterans Affairs
VA Space Planning Criteria (Chapter 102)
Washington, D.C. 20402
December 2006
Surgery; Intensive Care Units to Emergency Department; Intensive Care Units to
Heliport; Intensive Care Units to Acute Care Patient Units.
F. Refer to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Facilities Management
Handbooks, Standards, Standard Details, and Design Guides for technical criteria.
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FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP
Relationship of Intensive Care Nursing Units to services listed below:
TABLE 1: FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP MATRIX: MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
SERVICE
RELATIONSHIP
REASONS
Clinical Cardiac Laboratory
1
Patient Care Units (CCU)
1
Inhalation Therapy Unit
2
Patient Care Units Medical and
2
Respiratory
Pulmonary Function Lab
2
Ambulance Entrance
3
E.E.G.
3
Eng. Mgmt. And Field Support Office
3
Biomed. Rep.
Dialysis Center
3
Laboratory
3
Library
3
Medical Service Administration
3
Nuclear Medicine Service
3
Nursing Service Administration
3
Patient Care Units Neurology
3
Radiology Main Suite
3
AMM AVC. SPD Central
3
Loading Dock
X
Research SVC. AMIM. Research
X
AMM AVC. Warehouse
X
TABLE 2: FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP MATRIX: SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE
UNIT
SERVICE
RELATIONSHIP
REASONS
Surgical Service Operating Suite
1
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