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Long-term Care - Tools & Trainings
Here you will find the critical resources that allow you to have the meaningful and useful conversations with your design team to ensure a successful project.
Get ahead of the competition and make sure your building works for you.
Foundations
Operations First
Designing From Census, Acuity, and Staffing Reality
Most long-term care projects don’t lose predictability in one big decision. They lose it when the team locks a layout before they’ve agreed on operational reality—census, acuity, and staffing workflow.
In this video, we show a simple one-page tool—the CAS Alignment Tool (Census–Acuity–Staffing)—that helps teams align on the constraints that should drive layout before drawings gain momentum.
Regulatory Map in 1 Page
Licensure, Survey Risk, and What Drives Rework
Late redesign in long-term care is rarely a “design” problem. It’s usually a compliance mapping problem—because teams treat “regulations” like one bucket and discover the real constraints after the layout has momentum.
Minimum Viable Clinical Program (MVCP)
What You Must Decide Before Layout
If the clinical program is vague, the floor plan becomes guesswork—and guesswork becomes late redesign.
In this video, we introduce a one-page tool—the MVCP Decision Set (Minimum Viable Clinical Program)—to lock the minimum set of clinical decisions required before a layout direction becomes safe and predictable.