As a move toward a single consensus-based standard of care, a ventilation standard from ASHRAE and ASHE has been incorporated into the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, ...

Jordan Kravitz’s article “Architects call on the Facility Guidelines Institute and AIA to recognize standardized healthcare design recommendations for abortion procedures” contains a number of ...

Since its founding in 1998, the Facilities Guidelines Institute has been developing, revising, and publishing guidelines for the construction and renovation of hospitals and outpatient facilities. In ...

FGI is accepting public comment on the 2020 guidelines through September 30. Editor's note: This article was originally published in the newsletter Briefings on Accreditation & Quality. Briefings on ...

This June marked two years since the Dobbs ruling effectively overturned national protections for access to abortion as a constitutional right. In that time, we’ve seen 21 states ban abortion or ...

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BICSI, the association advancing the information and communications technology (ICT) community, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the ...

The Facility Guidelines Institute’s (FGI) Guidelines for Design and Construction requires healthcare organizations to develop a safety risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards and risks of ...

ONTARIO, CA — The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) and the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in which they ...

Review the work that engineers and clinicians put into creating an amendment to the standard for relative humidity in the operating room and other spaces. The goal was to see whether it was possible ...

For decades, Washington’s health care design codes were similar (but not identical) to national standards maintained by the Facility Guidelines Institute and published by the American Institute of ...

The Cleveland Clinic is well-known for its world-class care. Patients from around the world come to the clinic, and the clinic comes to them. In addition to its main campus in Northeast Ohio, the ...