Infrastructure & layout of a corporate hospital

 

INFRASTRUCTURE & LAYOUT OF A CORPORATE HOSPITAL

Description also available in video format (attached below), for better experience use your desktop.

 

Infrastructure

The infrastructure of a hospital plays an important role in its success and to build a hospital with an effective infrastructure must have to have focus on the following aspects

1)     Location/Built Environment

·        The hospital must have an easy access, transport facilities and car parking.

·        The hospital also has clear signages within and outside the hospital which ensure the patients and their families to navigate all the hospital services.

·         The IPD wards and patient areas must have a space, light and a good view to increase patient friendly healing environment.

2)     Medical Equipment's

·        Availability of appropriate equipment's as per the requirement for the delivery of high quality of clinical services.

·        The responsible lead of a hospital must have to evaluate and introduce new technologies.

·        Within a corporate framework the risk associated with the biomedical equipment should also be undertaken.

3)      Access

·        The access refers to the patient access to all the healthcare services such as

o   Mental health access

o   Physical access

o   Access to information

4)     Technology

·        There should be an integrated information system to support the delivery of information.

·        The MIS ensures patients and healthcare professionals to access the information they need.

·        Technology also helps to coordinate between the different departments of a hospital for the smooth functioning.

5)     Trained Manpower

·        The staff of the hospital must be skilled and trained.

·        It increases the faith of the patient in a hospital and he never feels dejected.

·         The training of all employees must be in a regular form to increase the efficiency of a hospital

 

Layout

The layout of a hospital speaks as a sign of quality of the healthcare services deliver by a hospital and for the designing &  implementation of a hospital layout the following aspects has to be considered

1)     Site Selection

·        Accessible

·        Have parking area

·        Future expansion

·        Proper elevation for drainage

·        General sanitary measures

2)     Interior & Furnishing

·        Must follow the infection control standards

·        Healing environment

·        Cost analysis

3)     Hospital Building

·        Have protection

·        Have short traffic routes

·        Have separated dissimilar activities

4)     General Features

·        Screened windows

·        Separate entrances

·        Ext point

·        Corridors

·        Visitors control

·        Fire escape etc.

 

Video Description

      Don’t forget to do these things if you get benefitted from this article

o   Visit our Let’s contribute page https://keedainformation.blogspot.com/p/lets-contribute.html

o   Follow our  page

o   Like & comment on our post