a.
Use steel with baked-on enamel finish for toilet stall
partitions and room entrance screens. Exceptions:
1.
Provide stainless steel toilet stall partitions adjacent
to urinals.
2.
Room entrance screens that double as part of a toilet
partition enclosure shall be of typical stud construction,
from floor to ceiling.
b.
Provide stainless steel wall-hung urinal screen partitions.
22.2
Do not use toilet stalls or divider partitions in single-user
toilet rooms in which only a lavatory and water closet are
provided.
22.3
Provide vinyl wallcovering on walls with lavatories, sinks, or
electric water coolers, unless space has ceramic tile wainscot or
other impermeable finish.
22.4
In planning the layouts of toilet rooms and bathrooms, use hinged
doors or provide visual screening, so as to block the view from
the corridors into such rooms. (See VA Standard Detail 12A.)
22.5
Provide electrical water coolers in alcoves on nursing or bed
units and where specifically required by VA Program Guide 7610.
All water coolers are to be accessible per requirements of the
Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards.
23.
SHOWERS:
23.1
Use ceramic tile applied with thinset Portland cement to concrete-
fiber reinforced backer board for shower enclosures and partitions
of contiguous areas.
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 watertightness. 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 and 20% of the bedrooms
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