Department of Veterans Affairs
VA Space Planning Criteria (214)
Washington, DC 20420
December 2006
B. Each service administration should be conveniently located to vertical transportation,
main corridor systems, and adjacent to programs supervised.
C. Due to the constant interaction among Service in all sections, all office space should
be contiguous and the whole Department should be located on the same floor.
D. Do not duplicate Staff Physician offices with these listed for nursing units.
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FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Relationship of Clinic Services Administration to services listed below:
TABLE 1: FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP MATRIX
SERVICES
RELATIONSHIP
REASON
Cardiovascular Llaboratory
3
Hemodialysis Center
3
Inhalation Therapy Unit
3
Patient Care Units CCU, MICU
3
Patient Care Units - Medical
3
Patient Care Units - Respiratory
3
Pulmonary Function Lab
3
Ambulatory care
4
Laboratory
Library
4
Mas - medical information
4
Nuclear medicine service
4
Patient care - neurology
4
Patient care units - sci
4
Patient care units - surgical
4
Radiology - main suite
4
Rehabilitation medicine
4
Social work svc. - admin. Off
4
Surgical service admin.
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