Planning Guidelines

• Create supportive and health-promoting spaces.
• Provide opportunity for privacy and respite.
• Create space and amenities that are accessible, welcoming and support a diversity of culture, age, ability and gender.

Planning Specifications

• Meet accessibility standards.
• Create access to outdoor areas and daylight /outdoor views.
• Plan multi-faith spiritual space including Indigenous healing area.
• Include senior and family-friendly spaces and gender-neutral washrooms.
• Sufficient and safe parking.

Planning Guidelines

• Support integrated care delivery.
• Enable best practice and evidence-based care.

Planning Specifications

• Incorporate 100% private rooms and sufficient airborne isolation rooms.
• Meet or exceed contemporary standards (e.g., Canadian Standards Association CSA/IPAC).
• Separate patient, materials and staff flow.

Planning Guidelines

• Maximize efficiency and timely access to appropriate care.
• Optimize resource utilization.

Planning Specifications

• Standardize Space/Rooms.
• Design flows to achieve timely and effective delivery of services.
• Co-locate interdependent services.

Planning Guidelines

• Consider strategies for accommodating future growth
• Balance need for additional capacity and space efficiency

Planning Specifications

• Incorporate approaches for growth such as adjacencies, soft space, shell space.
• Plan multi-use spaces.
• Ensure sufficient equipment and supply storage.

Planning Guidelines

• Promote inter-professional, rather than discipline-specific spaces and amenities.
• Provide opportunities for collaboration and quiet study.

Planning Specifications

• Create multi-use, shared, and accessible meeting and learning spaces.
• Incorporate areas for care planning, research, education, community engagement, brainstorming, etc.

Planning Guidelines

• Incorporate space, technology and equipment that protects and supports staff in care/service delivery.
• Create space and amenities that are accessible and support wellness and a diversity of cultures, ages, abilities and gender.

Planning Specifications

• Optimize adjacencies and design to reduce walking distances.
• Include safe facilities for changing, showering, securing belongings, respite, parking, exercise.
• Create access to daylight and outdoor areas.
• Meet or exceed CSA, Ontario Building Code and other guidelines/ legislation.

Planning Guidelines

• Enable state-of-the-art care delivery and transportation of specimens, supplies, medications and patient meals using automated systems and robotics.
• Improve communication and collaboration among providers, patients and families.

Stage 2 Specifications

• Plan Wi-Fi and device charging throughout.
• Explore/evaluate systems eg. automated guided vehicles, clinical automation etc.
• Provide online registration & scheduling.
• Provide space and technology for virtual visits and consults.

Planning Guidelines

• Incorporate environmental management systems to minimize consumption (energy, water, materials).
• Minimize use of toxic materials, limit waste and enable the practice of responsible disposal.

Planning Specifications

• Meet or exceed LEED (Leadership in Environmental Design) Silver certification requirements.
• Consider condensing boilers, and high-efficiency chillers, efficient pump designs, heat recovery chillers, etc.
• Plan water use reduction using efficient landscaping and captured rainwater.