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Healthcare-v2009 WEp1:Water use reduction

Children's Inpatient Hospital - Family visitors

In a children's inpatient hospital you have lots of individual patient rooms, each with their own private bathroom. These bathrooms are considered residential usage for the patients. These children have visitors, sometimes staying overnight in the patient room with them, sometimes simply visiting. These visitors often use the restroom in the patient's room. Is it acceptable to assign the visitors to these "residential" fixtures or how do you address this in the water calcs? (There are a few toilets in the hallways, but not many...)

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Wed, 10/28/2015 - 22:07

For Pediatrics, I would recommend you always count a parent as a 24 hour visitor and that the parent will use the patient bathroom. All other visitor's should use the visitor bathrooms. This tends to be hospital policy and good practice. How this gets communicated is up to the staff and the hospital. Seriously, use the visitor's bathroom when you go to the hospital and visit a patient.

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