Department Of Veterans Affairs
VA Space Planning Criteria (Chapter 202)
Washington, DC 20420
November 2006
TABLE 1: WORKLOAD PARAMETER CALCULATION
AVERAGE
LENGTH OF
ANNUAL
GROUP
GROUP
MINIMUM
THERAPY
WORKLOAD TO
THERAPY
CLINIC
SESSION
UTILIZATION
SESSIONS
GENERATE
STOP
RATE
(rounded)
(minutes)
ONE ROOM
Group
Room (12
60
80%
2,000
600
patients)
The number of annual Group Therapy Sessions per room will be used as a
criteria parameter to calculate the number of Group Therapy Rooms in the
Space Criteria section of this document. The minimum workload to generate
one room is 30% of the calculated annual Group Therapy Sessions per room.
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PROGRAM DATA REQUIRED (Input Data Statements):
A Mission:
1 Is a Substance Abuse Clinic authorized? (M)
2 Is a Substance Abuse Clinic Conference Room authorized? (M)
B Workload:
1 How many annual Substance Abuse Clinic stops are projected? (W)
2 How many annual Group Therapy sessions are projected? (W)
C Staffing:
3 How many Psychologist FTE positions are authorized? (S)
4 How many Chaplain FTE positions are authorized? (S)
5 How many Pharmacy Nurse FTE positions are authorized? (S)
6 How many Physician FTE positions are authorized? (S)
7 How many Rehabilitation Counselor FTE positions are authorized? (S)
8 How many Social Worker FTE positions are authorized? (S)
9 How many Statistical Clerk FTE positions are authorized? (S)
D Miscellaneous:
1 How many FTE positions for whom office space is not provided? (Misc)
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SPACE CRITERIA
A. Reception Areas
1
Waiting (WROC1) .................................................................. 300 NSF (27.8 NSM)
Minimum NSF. Provide eighteen seats per Group Therapy Room and if in
Concept of Operations.
Allocates 25 NSF for 20% of the calculated total number of seats (wheelchair
accessible waiting); and 15 NSF for the remaining 80% (standard waiting).
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