- Author
-
Fogarty, H. J.
- Title
- Space Planning and Equipment Requirements: Application of Advanced Technologies to Hospital Design in the Veterans' Administration.
- Coporate
- Veterans Administration, Washington, DC
- Report
-
NBS BSS 054
July 1974
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Federal Agency Workshop on Health and Medical Facilities Design. 1st Proceedings. December 5, 1972,
Gaitherburg, MD,
Kapsch, R. J., Editors,
25-26 p.,
1974
- Keywords
-
hospitals
- Abstract
- Prior to 1958, the Veterans' Administration (VA) used a 500 bed prototype as the basis of all design and construction. This proved undesirable since almost all new VA hospitals were to be teaching facilities with widely varying requirements not well suited to any single prototype.