Appeal No. 2006-0479
Application No. 10/309,274
hallways have one way traffic wherever possible, to
make sure the patient goes in the right direction, and
colored lines that the patients can follow to rooms
with doors of the same colors.
Reference is made to FIG. 27, illustrating an
embodiment of a Clinic Layout. The lobby of the clinic
is where patients will wait before the coordinator
calls them in. It is a simple room with rest rooms and
an entrance to the coordinator room. The patients can
either go to the rest room or enter the clinic via the
coordinator room.
The building aids the patient flow through signs
and color markings, referred to as patient flow
indicators. If instructed at the coordinator room to
proceed to diagnostic room 703, the patient goes
through the single brown door from the coordinator room
to the diagnostic room. Above the brown door is a sign
displaying "To Diagnostic Room". . . .
If tests have been decided upon, the diagnostic
nurse instructs the patient to proceed to test room
801. The patient walks up to a door 66 marked with all
the Test room numbers and colors (test room 801 is
marked in orange). The patient goes through the door
and follows the orange line on the hallway floor to
test room 801 (see FIG. 27). At the end of the orange
line is a sign advantageously stating "Test Room 801
Enter". The patient's name is displayed at test room
801 electronically, as well. All testing and sampling
is performed in this test room. . . .
Once the tests are completed, the patient is
instructed to proceed back to the same diagnostic room
703 by following the orange line back from the test
room 801 to the diagnostic room. . . .
After the session with the diagnostic nurse, the
patient may be instructed to proceed back to the
coordinator room through the pink door advantageously
marked "To Coordinator Room" or through the yellow door
to the pharmacy if medication was prescribed. If the
patient takes the yellow door advantageously marked
"Out to Pharmacy", (FIG. 27 shows clinic layout), the
patient takes a one-way yellow hallway into the
pharmacy, where medication is picked up. From the
pharmacy the patient is instructed to proceed to the
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