A new era for FGI is almost here.
The 2026 FGI Codes and Handbooks make it faster than ever to find requirements, understand them, and apply them with confidence. The 2026 FGI Codes deliver the enforceable requirements you need—organized for fast answers and everyday use. The 2026 FGI Handbooks include those codes plus the guidance, examples, graphics, and tools to help you put them into practice.
Modern tools. Trusted standards.
FGI Codes or Handbooks? Here's the difference.
Both are built on the same trusted standards. The difference is how far you want to go, and because every FGI Handbook includes the content of the 2026 FGI Code subscription, you never have to buy the same content twice.
One subscription. Everything you need. Every FGI Handbook subscription includes its corresponding 2026 FGI Code content, giving you both the requirements and the guidance to apply them in a single subscription.
The new FGI Codes lineup
The 2026 FGI Codes focus exclusively on enforceable requirements, making it easier to identify what’s required for every project. A redesigned digital experience, enhanced search, and continuous scrolling help you find answers in seconds.
Commentary formerly published in the appendices is now expanded and integrated into the FGI Handbooks, where it can be continuously updated and enriched with examples, graphics, and tools.
2026 FGI Code for Planning and Design of Hospitals
Robust and comprehensive, with new or strengthened requirements for:
- • Rehabilitation hospitals
- • Discharged patient waiting lounges
- • Incident command centers
- • Rural emergency hospitals
- • Medical psychiatry units
…and more.
2026 FGI Code for Planning and Design of Outpatient Settings
Concise and more agile, with new enforceable requirements for:
- • Behavioral health crisis centers
- • Short-stay centers
- • Sleep disorder centers
- • Birth centers
- • Plumbing, surfaces, and specialty space provisions
…and more.
2026 FGI Code for Planning and Design of Residential Care and Support Settings
Extensive and clear, with new or refreshed requirements for:
- • Residential behavioral and mental health treatment facilities
- • Specialized care populations
- • Resident rooms
- • Dining areas
- • Central bathing facilities
- • Shared toilet rooms
…and more.
The new FGI Handbooks lineup
2026 FGI Handbook for Planning and Design of Hospitals
Everything in the 2026 FGI Hospital Code, plus the insight and examples to apply it across the most complex hospital projects.
2026 FGI Handbook for Planning and Design of Outpatient Settings
The 2026 FGI Outpatient Code, plus practical guidance for agile outpatient environments—behavioral health crisis centers, short-stay centers, birth centers, and more.
2026 FGI Handbook for Planning and Design of Residential Care and Support Settings
Everything in the 2026 FGI Residential Code, plus insights for applying planning and design concepts across each defined care delivery model and setting/facility type; how to calculate resident census for capacity compliance and identify exceptions; and design guidance for specialized care populations and pediatric long-term care environments.
Subscription options
Whether you’re researching a single requirement, managing a team, or supporting an entire organization, there’s an FGI subscription designed for the way you work.
Adoption snapshot
See which states and territories
will automatically adopt
the 2026 FGI Codes.
Connecticut
Georgia
Idaho
Massachusetts*
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio**
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
*Massachusetts’s adoption of the FGI Codes follows the release of state-developed checklists.
**Ohio follows The Joint Commission, which follows FGI, even though the state does not formally adopt the FGI Codes.
Learn from the people who write the FGI Codes.
FGI University explains what’s changed across the 2018 and 2022 Guidelines and the 2026 FGI Codes, so you can apply requirements with confidence.
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