(5) Medical facilities: Offices, examination rooms and work
space for medical personnel such as physicians and nurses.

Dental facilities: 1 Office and work space for
provision of appropriate dental treatment.

Physical therapy:

Office and work space for physical therapy staff.
Rehabilitation gymnasium for adults.

Rehabilitation gymnasium for children if children
1
are included in program.

Hydrotherapy area.

Thermotherapy and massage area.

Storage for supplies and equipment.
Outdoor exercise area.1

Occupational therapy: Office and work space for
occupational therapy staff.

Therapy area: In large units space should be divided for diversified work (separate room for children is desirable).

Storage space for supplies and equipment.

Facilities for teaching activities of daily living.

Speech and hearing facilities:2 Offices for therapists and space for examination and treatment.

Artificial appliance facilities: Space for fitting and adjustment service.

(6) Psychological facilities: Office and work space for psychological testing evaluation and counseling.

(7) Social service facilities: Office space for private interview and counseling.

(8) Vocational facilities: Office and work space for counseling, evaluation, prevocational programs and placement. A prevocational area is not required for facilities serving children under the age of 12.

Special education: Schoolroom for children if
children are included in program.

(9) General facilities:

Locker, toilet and shower facilities for patients.
Clean and soiled linen facilities.

C. Nursing Unit for Adults

(1) General: It is recommended that this unit be located on the ground floor near the treatment area. Approximately one-fifth of the beds should be in two-bed rooms, the remainder in four-bed rooms. Each patients' room shall have a lavatory. Generous wardrobe space for each patient should be provided in the patients' rooms. A toilet room, with lavatory, accessible from adjoining patients' rooms, is recommended. No patients' room shall be located on any floor which is below grade.

(2) Size of nursing unit: Not more than 50 beds; 35 to 40 beds recommended.

(3) Minimum patients' room areas: 100 square feet per bed in multi-bed patients' rooms.

(4) Service facilities in each nursing unit for adults:

Nurses' station.

Nurses' toilet.

Utility room.

Examination and treatment room.

Floor pantry.

Solarium: Provide 25 square feet per bed for 75
per cent of beds on nursing unit.

Dining room: Provide 25 square feet per bed for 75 per cent of beds on nursing unit.

It is recommended that the dining and solarium area be adjacent so that they can be combined into one room for recreational and other group activity purposes.

Toilet facilities: If centralized toilets are provided, a toilet room for each sex at a ratio of 1 water closet to each 5 beds will be required. One of the water closet enclosures in each toilet room should be at least 5 feet by 6 feet to permit toilet training.

If toilets provided adjacent to patients' rooms are not large enough, a separate training toilet, at least 5 feet by 6 feet should be provided.

Bedpan facilities.

Bathing facilities:

1 bathroom for each sex.

1 shower to each 8 beds.

1 bathtub.

Stretcher and wheelchair parking space.

Clean linen storage.

Equipment and supply storage.

Janitor's closet.

Telephone alcove (one per floor).
Patients' laundry. 2

D. Nursing Unit for Children 2

(1) General: It is recommended that this unit be located on the
ground floor near the treatment area. No patients' room
should have more than 4 beds. Provide 2 two-bed rooms
in each nursing unit. Each patients' room shall have a
lavatory. Generous wardrobe space for each patient should
be provided in the patients' rooms. A toilet room, with

2If required by program.

lavatory, accessible from adjoining patients' room is recommended. No patients' room shall be located on any floor which is below grade.

(2) Size of nursing unit: Not more than 30 beds.

(3) Minimum patients' room areas:

100 square feet per bed in two-bed and four-bed rooms. 80 square feet per bed recommended for crib room if provided.

(4) Service facilities in each nursing unit for children:

Nurses' station.

Nurses' toilet.

Utility room.

Examination and treatment room.

Floor pantry.

Solarium: Provide 25 square feet per bed for 75
per cent of beds on nursing unit.

Dining room: Provide 25 square feet per bed for 75 per cent of beds on nursing unit.

It is recommended that the dining and solarium areas be adjacent so that they can be combined into one room for recreational and other group activity purposes.

Toilet facilities: If centralized toilets are provided, a toilet room for each sex at a ratio of 1 water closet to each 5 beds will be required. One of the water closet enclosures in each toilet room should be at least 5 feet by 6 feet to permit toilet training.

If toilets provided adjacent to patients' rooms are not large enough, a separate training toilet, at least 5 feet by 6 feet, should be provided.

Bedpan facilities.

Personnel dining space: Provide 12 square feet per person; may be designed for multiple seatings.

Outpatients' dining facilities as required.

(3) Janitor's closet.

(4) Housekeeping facilities:

Laundry: Unless commercial or other laundry facilities are available, each rehabilitation facility shall have a laundry of sufficient capacity to process full 7 days' laundry in work week and contain the following areas: