FINAL DRAFT 9-26-95
REVISED FEBRUARY 1997
Functional Considerations
Narrative
Location/External Relationships:
Patient Access/Wayfinding:
Pulmonary Medicine facilities should be
accessibly located to parking and ambulatory
care areas, since it provides outpatient
diagnostic procedures.
A location proximate to other diagnostic
facilities
assists
in
wayfinding
and
coordination of patient services.
A location central to inpatient and non-
ambulatory facilities is required to provide
stat access to all inpatient units.
Functional Adjacencies:
Programs that benefit from (but do not
require) adjacency to Pulmonary Medicine are
intensive care, emergency, and surgery
recovery.
However, the blood gas laboratory should
have reasonable proximity to the ICUs, ER,
OR, and PACU.
Services Access:
General
hospital
service
access
is
adequate.
VA DESIGN GUIDE
PULMONARY MEDICINE SERVICE
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