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NC-2009 WEc3:Water Use Reduction

Hospital Fixture Groups

I'm debating how to set up my fixture groups for a large healthcare project. Initially, it makes sense to split into two groups: inpatient and outpatient/other. But 2/3 of the patient tower is devoted to Women. We have a floor of NICU and another floor of LDR/CSection on top of that. Would it make more sense to split up the inpatient into similar departments? The issue is accurately accounting for male patients. If I go with inpatients than the m/f ratio is a blended number and I would upload a pdf showing the calculation. If I break out the inpatients more, I won't have to do that and it would be clearer to a reviewer. But more time consuming for me. Initially, I was going to group the outpatient/other functions by similar hours/days of operation but the toilets are common to both groups. Now we'll use 24/7/365.

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Tristan Roberts
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Fri, 09/02/2011 - 14:28

Susan, sorry that you didn't get a reply on this question. Did you make a decision on what to do here?

Tue, 11/22/2011 - 13:43

I realized that the gender of the patient is irrelevent because the patient bathroom does not have a urinal in it. Then I developed a spreadsheet that bases staffing off bed count which was the key to engaging the hospital staff as they think that way. We went with a 24 hour calculations for everyone one which further simplified who is in what category. We will upload the back up spreadsheet when we submit next month. It took some time but eventually we were able to streamline this process.

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