Nursing Home Design Guide
2006
Study Site Facilities
This section provides examples of facilities studied during the VA Nursing Home Design
Guide development. The purpose of these site summaries is to provide an at-a-glance
tool when planning a Nursing Home care facility. The objective is to aid future planners,
designers and administrators of VA Nursing Home care facilities in providing top quality
healthcare environments that are well designed and constructed to provide state of the
art services to VA clients.
Study Site Summary Table (Table 3.10) provides a summary of the study site
information and includes:
Total Beds
Total Square footage of the facility
Number of beds per Nursing Unit
Approximate facility acreage
Number of beds per acre
Any specialty care units
The floor plans are color coded according to important spatial relationships as well as
facility functions. A checklist is provided at the end of each study site subsection and
includes a concise listing of critical information from each facility for planning purposes.
APP - 1
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