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Join us on 11/8/2022 for The Evolving Role of FGI: Updates to the 2022 Guidelines

  • 1.  Join us on 11/8/2022 for The Evolving Role of FGI: Updates to the 2022 Guidelines

    Posted 10-28-2022 12:08 PM
    Edited by Thomas J. Bahr AIA 11-01-2022 10:06 AM


    Earn 1 AIA LU/HSW | Tuesday, November 8, 2022 | 2-3 pm ET

    The Evolving Role of FGI:  Updates to the 2022 Guidelines

    Description

    This webinar will feature a brief introduction to FGI and the feature highlights and updates to the FGI 2022 Edition. The Facility Guidelines Institute is an independent 501 c3 not for profit organization that promotes consensus-based guidelines and publications, advised by research, to advance quality health care design. FGI produces three distinct volumes for the planning, design, and construction for 1) Hospitals 2) Outpatient Facilities and 3) Residential Health Care and Support Facilities. There is a regular review and revision cycle every four years, where consensus methodology is used to produce improved future editions of the Guidelines. FGI 2022, is the latest in the 75-year history of the Guidelines and is an update from the 2018 edition. The 2022 edition of the Guidelines has been updated with a few topics that note the evolving role of FGI in promoting patient centered care, building resiliency during community emergencies, the impact that design can have on palliative and end of life care, flexibility to reduce overcrowding in Emergency Departments, and new design guidelines for behavioral and mental health crisis units. As the needs of planning, design and construction for healthcare facilities evolves, FGI responds with updated editions of the Guidelines. 

    Hosted by the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health an AIA Knowledge Community.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Discuss the history and brief introduction to FGI along with their evolving role in the planning, design and construction of healthcare facilities.  
    • Identify changes to the 2022 FGI Guidelines and their application to the design  of person-centered medical care. 
    • Understand the updated requirements for multi-purpose patient care settings, lighting, nurse call and ligature resistant design in behavioral health spaces that increase the health, safety and welfare of patients and workers. 
    • Evaluate the changes to single-patient care exam/observation rooms and the impacts of dual entry on patient care. 
    • Understand the changes in the outpatient guidelines to encourage flexibility in the use of patient care spaces and its positive effects on patients.  

    Speakers

    Anne M Cox, AIA, ACHA, EDAC LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP

    Senior Principal | A3C Collaborative Architecture

    Charles A. Michelson, AIA, EDAC LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP

    President | Saltz Michelson Architects



    Dusica Stankovic, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP

    Architect | HOK St. Louis


    Moderator

    Gregg Ostrow, AIA

    Architect / Consultant |  

     

     

     



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    Thomas Bahr
    AIA, NCARB, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED AP BD+C, LSSYB
    Project Architect
    Jacobs
    Saint Louis, MO
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