Nursing Home Design Guide
2006
2. Staff
8. Sterile Supplies
Staff entry to the Nursing Home facility
should be separated from other traffic
Sterile items used in the medical exam
such as resident/visitor and service.
rooms are transported via dedicated
Staff facilities should be located
closed carts. Sterile items also may be
convenient to staff entry.
stored in the clean utility rooms.
3. Records
9. Food
Resident medical and financial records
Efficient, cost-effective and safe food
are maintained centrally and may be
production is based on a continuous
distributed and accessed electronically.
system with specific methods for raw
product flow, preparation, cooking,
4. Specimens
assembly and dispensing.
Specimens are collected on the resident
units and are transported to an off-site,
Clean and soiled areas and products
reference laboratory for processing and
must be segregated to prevent cross-
reporting.
contamination. Finished products
should be transported only a short
Effective means are necessary for
distance if they are to remain safe for
maintaining and transporting specimens
consumption.
to insure quality.
10. Waste
5. Pharmaceuticals
Waste is collected by environmental
Pharmaceuticals including narcotics are
services staff and transported to soiled
transported by pharmacy staff to
utility rooms on the individual resident
individual resident units in locked
units and trash collection areas near
transport containers. Narcotics are
loading docks where it is disposed
delivered to a locked medication cabinet
according to facility policies.
in the medication room.
6. Material
1.4
FUNCTIONAL DIAGRAM
Supply traffic (material) should be
See diagram below.
separated from resident/visitor traffic.
Clean supplies are transported via
supply carts to the clean utility rooms on
the individual resident units where
supplies are accessed by staff.
7. Linen
Supply traffic (linen) should be
separated from resident/visitor traffic.
Clean and soiled linen are transported in
linen carts.
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