23.2
Use nonslip finished floors for showers and contiguous spaces.
Depress the structural floor of patient showers and contiguous
spaces in new buildings 75mm (3 inches) and place a 75 mm (3 inch)
removable fill on the entire floor area. In new buildings, warp
finished floors of patient bath rooms toward showers to assure
drainage to the shower drain. In existing buildings where
standard depression is not feasible, use other means to ensure
positive drainage and water tightness. Floor slopes in and around
a shower shall not exceed 5 percent.
23.3
Construct all patient showers without curbs. In non-patient
shower rooms, provide at least one shower stall without a curb.
Provide grab bars for all showers.
24.
UNIFORM FEDERAL ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS AND VA ACCESSIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS
24.1
VA facilities must comply with the Uniform Federal Accessibility
Standards (UFAS) with the exception of the UFAS toilet/grab bar
configuration, from which VA has specific permission to deviate.
This deviation requires VA to follow the UFAS grab-bar
configuration for a minimum of 10% of the patient toilets on
nursing units. The remainder will use the double upswing grab-
bars shown in VA Standards Detail 14G.
24.2
In addition, VA requires accessibility for 100% of bedrooms and
patient toilets in Nursing Home Care Units. Other than the 10%
required to follow UFAS, double upswing grab-bars will be used at
each accessible water closet.
24.3
Other more specific VA accessibility requirements which differ
from UFAS are given in PG-18-13, "Barrier Free Design Guide".
25.
ROOM NUMBERING:
25.1
Work closely with the facility to establish the room numbering
system to be used for the new or remodeled space, since change in
room numbers late in the design and construction process is a sure
cause of confusion and error. The VA Environmental Graphics Design
Program Guide, dated July 1996, provides sign types for room
numbering.
25.2
Designate the main entrance lobby as the first floor level and
identified by the number "1". Identify the level immediately
below the first floor by the letter "B". If there is more than
one level below the first floor, designate them B1, B2, B3, etc.,
with B1 being the level immediately below the first floor level.
If there are any penthouse floors, continue the floor numbering
system, such as 7, 8, and 9. Designate parking floors in a
building the same way as basement, except using the letter "P"
instead of "B".
25.3
Divide each floor or level into a convenient number of areas
beginning with the letter "A". Determine the size of the areas by
the configuration of the building, the number of rooms in the
area, and the location of main corridors, which should be used as
area borders. Since the size and location of departments may
change, use the main corridors, and not departments, to establish
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