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Book Detail
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Planning, Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities
JCR
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Category: Health Administration Publisher: JCR Publishing Dimensions: 9.8 x 0.4 x 6.8 in
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Synopsis:
This helpful publication assesses the challenges, compliance issues, and need for a holistic approach to the planning, design, and construction of health care facilities. It also provides tips, tools, and strategies to consider and shares real life case studies of organizations that have seen great success in their approach to planning, design, and construction with a patient safety focus. Special features: broad considerations for planning, including assessing the needs of the community, designing to maximize staff efficiency, planning for new technology, working to promote ?green? environmentally-friendly facilities, and incorporating healing design that enhances positive patient outcomes; Joint Commission considerations for planning, including designing with patient safety in mind, performing a pre-construction risk assessment, planning for interim life safety measures, considering factors such as worker safety, emergency preparedness, surge capacity, and using the AIA Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities; the steps in formal master planning, building the design/construction team to include all players in a collaborative process, and creating workable schedules; managing the nuts and bolts of the actual construction process, with an emphasis on Joint Commission requirements for implementing and monitoring the ILSM and controls for infection, air quality in clinical areas, patient safety, debris and dust containment (short-term and long-term barriers), and noise; how to successfully communicate these requirements to contractors; and working with the authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) during construction; considerations for post-construction commissioning, including what should be tested and by whom. The book also discusses in two separate appendices special considerations for the design of laboratories and pharmacies
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