institutional occupancy

institutional occupancy

The use of a building for the medical treatment or care of persons suffering from illness or infirmity; for the care of infants, convalescents, or aged persons; or for penal or corrective purposes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Phedonos however, said institutional occupancy did not apply to Turkish Cypriot properties.
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While microhospitals may yield higher billing rates with their "hospital campus" status, these projects also face higher costs of institutional occupancy construction (when compared to less-stringent business occupancy classifications for typical outpatient facilities) and increased costs of operating the facility 24/7/365.
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Like Sunrise, most large developers are building assisted living facilities according to institutional occupancy standards despite the added cost, Warner says.
Had Oakton not been built to institutional occupancy code, local fire marshals would not have allowed partial-opening windows in the fourth-floor dementia unit, says Mikalajunas.
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