Healthcare facility planning : thinking strategically

Table of Contents: 1. Rethinking the facility planning process 2. Understanding your current facility 3. Defining strategic direction and future demand 4. Coordinating operations improvement initiatives and planned technology investments with facility planning 5. Identifying facility needs and establishing priorities 6. Reaching consensus on a long-range facility investment strategy 7. Identifying specific projects and preparing a phasing and implementation plan 8. Beginning detailed operational and space programming 9. Case study: Developing a ten-year capital investment strategy for a multihospital system 10. Case study: Planning and ambulatory care facility 11. Case study: Evaluating emergency expansion 12. Case study: Developing a bed expansion plan 13. Case study: Consolidating two acute care hospitals 14. Case study: Planning a prototype community health center 15. Optimizing current and future flexibility 16. Ensuring success: optimizing your capital investments

Spending millions of dollars to renovate, reconfigure, expand, or replace a facility can be intimidating without the right direction. This is a practical guide that will help to move confidently from planning to implementation. This book focus is on predesign planning - a stage in the healthcare facility planning, design, and construction process. Healthcare executives have the greatest opportunity to express a vision for their organization's future during predesign planning, and decisions made during this stage have the greatest impact on long term operational costs and future flexibility. Careful predesign planning allows an organization to rethink its current patient care delivery model, operational systems and processes, and use of technology to ensure that a facility substantially benefits patients, caregivers, and payers. This book addresses current issues - such as new financial incentives, fluctuating utilization and demand, constant pressure for technology adoption and deployment, rising turf wars among specialists, intense focus on patient safety, and aging physical plants - that affect the way facilities are used, planned, financed, and built