Telemedicine Issue Brief Now Available

A new issue brief, “Virtual Care: Guidance for Healthcare Settings,” is now available. A result of a long-standing collaboration with the Facility Guidelines Institute and The Center for Health Design, the brief explores the origins and expanding use of telemedicine for virtual care, the Read More …

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Get Ready: Changes are Coming to the 2022 FGI Guidelines

The next edition of the Facility Guidelines Institute’s Guidelines documents will be released in early 2022. Written as minimum standards, the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals; Guidelines for Design and Construction of Outpatient Facilities; and Read More …

eNewsletter, Future Trends

Reimagining Healthcare Design via Design Thinking

We’ve all experienced that “ah-hah” moment when you recognize something could be better, and imagine it being better. For patients and clinicians, it’s often when they are in a hospital care space – the expectant mother in the middle of labor wishing she wasn’t staring at a painfully slow-moving clock on the wall; the Read More …

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Industry Experts Join Facility Guidelines Institute

Isabelle Arnold and Tina Duncan recently joined Facility Guidelines Institute. Arnold, a project architect with Array Architects, has been invited to join FGI’s Biocontainment Unit Task Group. Duncan, AIA, ACHA, CBO, has been appointed to FGI’s board of directors. Read More …

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AORN, Sextant Facilitate ‘Reimagining the OR’ Workshop

The AORN Foundation, in partnership with the Sextant Foundation, will be offering a two-day hands-on workshop experience — “Reimagining the OR” — as a pre-conference program at AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo 2020, located in Anaheim, California. The workshop will be held March 26-27. Read More …

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New Guidance on Patient Handling and Mobility Released by FGI

The Facility Guidelines Institute has released the second edition of the Patient Handling and Mobility Assessments white paper. The first edition white paper was published nearly a decade ago as a complement to the 2010 FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities. Read More …

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FGI Appoints James R. ‘Skip’ Gregory to Board of Directors

James R. “Skip” Gregory, NCARB, has been appointed by the Facility Guidelines Institute to its board of directors. Gregory is president of Health Facility Consulting, LLC, in Tallahassee, Florida, where he specializes in healthcare code consulting and provides training seminars and presentations for healthcare Read More …

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Heather Platt Appointed to FGI’s Health Guidelines Revision Committee

Heather Platt, P.E., a senior project manager for Dewberry, has been appointed to the Facility Guidelines Institute’s Health Guidelines Revision Committee for the 2019-20 term. She represents the North Piedmont Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Read More …

Industry News

2022 Guidelines Proposal Period Closing June 30

Facility managers and administrators, engineers, designers, infection preventionists, medical professionals, and others involved in the design and construction of health and residential care facilities, are encouraged to submit proposed changes to the 2018 edition of the Guidelines for Design and Construction before the midnight deadline on June 30. Read More …

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