Strategize For A

New Hospital

Components of Hospital Planning:

Objectives

Strategies

Standards

Budget

Policies

Procedures

Programs

Rules

Methods

Hospital Planning Team

Representative of a governing body for

fulfilling legal aspects

Engineers & Architects for layout &

construction

Administration Committee to manage the

hospital

Specialists of various medical branches

Nursing staff

Objectives:

• Analysis of the existing facilities

• Reviewing the facilities that are

needed

• Fulfillment of the needs of the people

by providing them the best healthcare

• Special care of women, children, aged

people & people below poverty line.

Strategies:

• Forming relationships with physicians.

• Pursuing payer relationships and new

revenue models.

• Partnering with the community.

• Focusing on the outpatient arena.

• Investing in technology.

• Merging with other hospitals and healthcare

systems.

Standards:

• Step 1: Make a list of all public hospitals, and classify them

according to the level of services they provide,

• Step 2: Estimate the sum total of government resources

each hospital consumes.

• Step 3: Identify hospitals believed to be performing poorly

• Step 4: Describe the present structure of decision making

and administration in this list of selected hospitals.

• Step 5: Evaluate performance of the selected hospitals in

accordance with how they meet the criteria of efficiency,

equity, accountability, quality of care, and revenue

mobilization.

• Step 6: Revise, if necessary, the priorities in the list of

hospitals targeted for reform.

Budget:

While determining the budget following points must be considered:

• Revenue comes from patient payments, donations etc.

• Expenses comes from physical facilities like how much does it cost to keep up the building or buildings, maintenance cost of each department, electricity, water, other utilities, equipment costs and including non-medical cost of each bed in the hospital and advertising too.

• Cost of all employees

• Other facilities such as parking garages, lots, laundry, landscaping, grounds keeping or window washing.

• An emergency expense fund. If some disaster occurs , the hospital must be prepared for it.

Policies:

• To provide information about present complaints and medical history

• To report whether he/she clearly comprehends the contemplated course of treatment and what is expected of him/her.

• To report dissatisfaction with the quality of care or service to the nurse manager, physician, or patient representative..

• To assure that financial obligations of his/her health care are fulfilled as promptly as possible.

• To be considerate of the rights of other patients and hospital personnel by assisting in the control of noise and the number of visitors.

• To be respectful of the property of other persons and the property of the hospital.

Rules:

• Smoking should be strictly prohibited.

• Visiting Hours should be decided.

• There should be a provision of a special

visitors' pass for visitors who wish to stay.

• There should a control over the noise in the

hospital.