This Pharmacy Service Design Guide (PG-18-12 Chapter 268) replaces the first Design Guide for Pharmacy Service which dates from 1995. One of the primary drivers for developing this update to the Design Guide is due to the age of the current information available within VA for use on facility design and construction projects, with the knowledge that there have been significant changes to Pharmacy Service over this period of time.

This Design Guide, Inpatient Mental Health & Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program Facilities (PG-18-12 Chapters 110, 312) focuses on inpatient and residential levels of care and is designed to give as updated and complete a picture of the principles, and their application, that allow Veterans seeking mental health care the best chance of recovery. This 2021 Design Guide supersedes Mental Health Facilities Design Guide, December 1, 2017.