Hospital Design Tips

This article picks up from my previous article on how Hospital design can improve as healing environments (http://www.hospitaldesigntips.com/2008/04/a-healing-place-called-hospital/) I focus on the need for daylight and what design aspects one must keep in mind at the design stage.

A Recent trend or innovation in healthcare facilities design has been a requirement for “future flexibility” or “future proofing” the entire hospital or lab building. As the medical and hospital design science advances by leaps and bounds, new diagnostic and treatment procedures are developed for clinical administration. The product life cycle for medical equipment becomes [...]

Hearing Test Room or an Audiology Booth can be described as a room within a room as these are designed and built inside the constructed building for soundproofing purpose as the hearing tests must be performed in extremely quiet surroundings. These tests can last around an hour and any external sounds will require the complete [...]

Visits to a hospital by patients or their visitors are almost always a stressful experience, especially the first visit. This stress can rapidly escalate, if they cannot get to where they need to go, quickly – be it to get treatment or to visit a loved one. The difficulty to find way can be compounded [...]

Author: Wullie Scott All healthcare facilities as part of the hospital design process require some kind of Nurse Call System which includes patient-to-staff and staff-to-staff calls when the need arises. When the nurse call is initiated, it buzzes at the nearest staff base, where the staff responsible can find out from the nurse call panel [...]

Our last hospital design article on fire escapes for disabled, based on a client query has proved very popular with the hospitaldesigntips.com visitors. It has encouraged me to come up with more apt advice on how to go about with the hospital design. A doctor friend of ours from India requested: We are planning for [...]

Designing an operating theatre outlines the intricacies of the hospital design process. An operating theatre suite consists of the Theatre, the Anaesthetic room, Scrub room and the Dirty Utility (or just Utility) room. We will look at planning just the Operating Theatre itself in this hospital design guide article. The size and room dimensions vary [...]

Actually this article was supposed to be a reply to a comment from one of www.hospitaldesigntips.com visitors who was interested to find out more about hospital design issues with respect to fire escapes and relevant legislation. Here’s how it went:

If you are planning on opening your own new dental surgery, you would have worked in one for a number of years or at least a few months. You would be familiar with the equipment, layout and the quality of cabinetry. Laying out or planning a dental surgery is not a very complex job. There [...]

Of all the clinical areas in any hospital, X-Ray, CT, and Fluoroscopy need much more planning and co-ordination than any other thing imaginable. This is mostly due to the fact that the equipment used and its implications on the building structure and services is much more complex with the exception of the MRI. We will [...]