1. SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE FACILTY DESIGN
By;
ANYANGO P. AMOKO
Ministry of Medical Services, Kenya
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2. INTRODUCTION
A health care facility can simply be defined as a built-in environment where health services are provided
This include;-
Medical clinic
Nursing Home
Dispensary
Health centre
All levels of Hospital
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3. "You never get a second chance to make a good first impression."
INTRODUCTION
"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression."
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4. INTRODUCTION
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5. INTRODUCTION Applied to health care facilities.
The state healthcare facility conveys a message to
Patients
Visitors,
Volunteers,
Vendors, and
Staff.
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6. HEALTHCARE FACILITY The clues starts;-
The facility also communicates a torrent of clues about the organization and the medical care being provided there.
The clues starts;-
At the approach to the facility,
The drop-off area
The parking lots
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7. Garden or landscaping and
HEALTHCARE FACILITY
Garden or landscaping and
The street signs
Health service delivery environment
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8. HEALTHCARE FACILITY
The State of infrastructure therefore impacts on accessibility to safe affordable and sustainable health services
Unless it is properly planned, designed, constructed and maintained. No amount quality healthcare can be given to the population
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9. HEALTH FACIITY FUNCTION UNITS
Health care facilities are comprised of wide range of services and functional units.
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10. SOME OF THE FUNCTIONAL UNITS INCLUDE
DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT FUNCTIONS SUCH AS
IMAGING FACILITIES
LABORATORIES
CASUALTY
OPERATING THEATRES
DISPENSING FUNCTIONS SUCH AS
PHARMACIES
STERILIZATION
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11. FUNCTION UNITS HOSPITALITY FUNCTIONS SUCH AS FOOD SERVICE
HOUSE KEEPING
ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS SUCH AS
STRATEGY FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
TRAINING FUNCTIONS SUCH AS
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
ETC
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12. WHY PLANNING OF HF
Each of these wide-ranging and constantly evolving functions of a hospital, including highly complicated mechanical, electrical, and telecommunications systems, requires specialized planning knowledge and expertise.
This is so because these functional units can have competing needs and priorities and aesthetic tastes must be balanced against mandatory requirements, functional needs and financial setbacks.
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13. Physical relationships between these functions determine the configuration of the hospital and certain relationships between the various functions are required.
Planning should facilitate flow of human traffic, services, movement of materials and waste since the physical configuration of a hospital and its transportation and logistic systems are inextricably intertwined.
Hospital planning is also influenced by site restraints and opportunities, climate, surrounding facilities, budget, and available technology.
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14. Efficiency and cost effectiveness
Some of the salient design attributes include:
Efficiency and cost effectiveness
Promote staff movement efficiency .
Allow easy visual supervision of patients by limited staff
Include all needed spaces without redundancy.
Provide an efficient logistics system.
Make efficient use of space by locating support spaces so that they may be shared by adjacent functional areas. E.g. Positioning sterilization room to cover outside requisition and within.
Consolidate outpatient functions for more efficiency
Group or combine functional areas with similar system requirements
Provide optimal functional adjacencies., such as locating the surgical intensive care unit adjacent to the operating theatre.
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15. Flexibility and expandability.
Since medical needs will continue to change, hospitals should:
Follow modular concepts of space planning and layout
Use generic room sizes and plans as much as possible.
Be served by modular, easily accessed, and easily modified mechanical and electrical systems
Be open-ended, with well planned directions for future expansion.
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16. Therapeutic Environment
The characteristics of the patient profile will determine the degree to which the interior design should address
Aging,
Children
Loss of visual acuity,
Other physical and mental disabilities, and
abusiveness
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17. Using cheerful and varied colors and textures,
Admitting ample natural light wherever feasible.
Creating a healing environment by providing views of the outdoors from every patient bed.
Designing a "way-finding" process into every project. Patients, visitors, and staff all need to know where they are, what their destination is, and how to get there and return.
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18. Cleanliness And Sanitation
Hospitals must be easy to clean and maintain. This is facilitated by:
Appropriate, durable finishes for each functional space
Careful detailing of construction features.
Adequate and appropriately located housekeeping spaces
Special materials, finishes, and details for spaces which are to be kept sterile.
Incorporating operational and maintenance practices that stress indoor environmental quality.
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19. Accessibility All areas, both inside and out, should:
Comply with the minimum requirements for invalids circulation.
Be designed so as to be easy to use by the many patients with temporary or permanent handicaps. E.g. use of ramps lifts and hoists
Ensuring grades are flat enough to allow easy movement and sidewalks and corridors are wide enough for wheelchairs to pass easily. A minimum corridor width of 2400mm is recommended.
Ensuring entrance areas are designed to accommodate patients with slower adaptation rates to dark and light; marking glass walls and doors to make their presence obvious
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20. Controlled Circulation
Outpatients should not travel through inpatient functional units.
Typical outpatient routes should be simple and clearly defined.
Visitors should have a simple and direct route to each patient nursing unit.
Separate patients and visitors from industrial/logistical areas or floors
Outflow of trash, recyclables, and soiled materials should be separated from movement of food and clean supplies, and both should be separated from routes of patients and visitors
Transfer of bodies to and from the morgue should be out of the sight of patients and visitors
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21. Aesthetics Aesthetic considerations include:
Aesthetics is important in enhancing the hospital's public image and is thus an important marketing tool. A better environment also contributes to better staff morale and patient care.
Aesthetic considerations include:
Increased use of natural light, natural materials, and textures
Use of artwork
Attention to proportions, color, scale, and detail
Bright, open, generously-scaled public spaces
Homelike and intimate scale in patient rooms.
Compatibility of exterior design with its physical surroundings
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22. SECURITY AND SAFETY
In addition to the general safety concerns of all buildings, hospitals have several particular security concerns:
Protection of hospital property and assets, including drugs
Protection of patients, staff and visitors.
Safe control of violent or unstable patients
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23. "A functional design can promote skill, economy, conveniences, and comforts; a non-functional design can impede activities of all types, detract from quality of care, and raise costs to intolerable levels." ... Hardy and Lammers …..END…...
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24. Thank you
Questions and comments.
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