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facilities. These centers are meant for patients who are stable and do not need intensive monitoring or hospital-level care but—because of distance, travel limitations, lack of a caregiver at home or more time needed to manage pain or bodily functions—might not be able to go home the same day as a procedure or visit to an emergency facility. A few states already regulate these kinds of facilities and design guidance is needed.
Development of Guidelines for Emergency Conditions FGI has received numerous requests for guidance on setting up tempo- rary facilities and adapting existing facilities in response to the COVID- 19 pandemic. In response, it has con- vened a special committee to assem-
ble design guidance for facilities during emergency situations caused by weather, pandemics, wildfires and other emergency situations. The committee is responsible for creating a white paper with draft requirements and lessons learned from past local and national emergen- cies such as COVID-19. This white paper will become the basis for new guidelines on the design of facilities that can readily be adapted during emergency conditions.
FGI is an independent, not-for-
profit organization dedicated to devel- oping guidance for the planning, design and construction of hospitals, outpatient facilities and residential health, care and support facilities. FGI appoints the members of the HGRC,
David Shapiro, MD, CASC, is a member of Facility Guidelines Institute's board of di- rectors, a former ASCA Board president and anesthesiologist at Red Hills Surgical Center in Tallahassee, Florida. Write him at
dshapiromd@yahoo.com.
a 140-person multidisciplinary body responsible for development of the content of the guidelines, which are updated every four years. The goal is to keep the document up to date with changes in the healthcare field and to provide
clarifications that can ease
adoption and compliance. For more information on FGI and the proposed changes for
the
2022 guidelines, please visit www.fgi
guidelines.org.
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