Owner and designer input is needed on proposed new requirements for the 2014 edition of the FGI Guidelines as well as proposed changes to existing language and removal of outdated requirements. Participants will have a chance to discuss proposals updating text on skilled nursing, hospice, assisted living, and adult day health care facilities as well as new material on several other residential health care facility types. A voting system will be used, and all input will be recorded and reported to the 2014 HGRC at their final meeting. This session will enable you to:

● Describe how proposed change to Part 4 of the Guidelines will directly affect future construction projects
● Identify issues in the planning, design, and construction of residential care facilities that authorities having
● Gain information from the experiences of others who have applied this document to design and construction projects to use as lessons learned in your own projects.
● Apply your project experience to interpret and suggest improvements to the Guidelines document, which is widely used for design guidance and regulation of health care construction.