INTRODUCTION
Renovations of existing, operational facilities tend to come with the most challenges, from patient safety to infection control to maintaining the desired census.
Hospital renovation is a necessity, but it also presents a strong opportunity — to improve care, serve community needs, offer expanded services and improve your hospital’s bottom line.
Considering the above facts, Hospaccx teamwork on the market trends and dynamics regarding renovating the existing hospital. This is a macroficial study of How to Renovate the Existing Hospital, if you want to get into more detail you can contact info@hhbc.in
PLANNING HOSPITAL RENOVATION
The ideal project supports hospital’s goals and meets the budget and schedule with minimum disruption to an active care settings. To meet these needs, conduct research with a project team and define the facility’s most prominent challenges. Create a strong strategy that will guide the decision-making.
Here are five concrete steps one can take:
- Speak with salient staff
Hospital needs to support all stakeholders, from leadership and facility managers to doctors, nurses and other frontline staff. Speaking with all of these parties gives the critical insights into the challenges, so the project can be planned that addresses them.
- Audit building systems
Bring engineers and designers to the facility to assess and quantify the operational efficiencies of the facility. That includes such elements as:
- Building systems, such as HVAC, mechanical and electrical
- Energy usage, ways to conserve energy and limit costs
- Layout and traffic flows
- Medical technologies, such as radiological setups
- Safety of staff and patients
- Staff efficiency
- Code compliance
These assessments help the project team promote efficiency, prioritize challenges and identify solutions in space allocation, layout planning and new building systems.
- Assess financial capacity
Perform a complete evaluation of financial capacity and align the project team’s thinking to the budget constraints. Identify the services and areas that drive profit or are losing money, so one can emphasize or de-emphasize those in the design. Solidify the budget and gauge construction financing needs.
- Align your project with strategic plans
If the leadership has already drafted strategic plans and layout planning documentation, provide these to the project team. Design, engineering, estimation and construction professionals can work to identify any gaps and add detail where applicable. Strategic planning should be complete long before construction begins.
- Plan adaptability
Hospital construction isn’t a short-term investment. That means not only anticipating and planning for long-term needs with the initial layout, but also building adaptability into hospital. While we won’t go so far as to recommend modular design, modern spaces can be designed specifically for the purpose of serving multiple functions and service areas. As needs change, well-designed facilities should allow you to easily move departments and services to different areas of the facility.
RENOVATION PRECAUTION
Renovation can be a cost-effective and appeasing option, but it also is the most complicated one. It should take into account the following precautions:
- Plan to minimize interruptions of day-to-day operations.
- Train staff and contractors to prevent the spread of infections during construction.
- Work flow processes are redeveloped to eliminate inefficiencies.
- Plan all phases to avoid issues with space utilization over the long term.
- Take into account that the site needs to allow for future expansion.
- Include projected operating costs associated with maintaining multiple systems, such as HVAC.
CHALLENGES IN RENOVATING A HOSPITAL
Renovating and building new hospitals are expensive ventures, and in most instances, they are necessary. Hospitals, like other forms of property, age and need the occasional tune-up or a full-scale reconstruction to stay competitive within their market and state.
- Accessing affordable capital: Before hospitals can tackle a project as big as a new facility construction, executives must know the capital and financing options that are available to them.
- Selecting an approach and facility design that optimizes costs: Hospitals that are renovating or constructing new facilities have to weigh the overall design of the building against the outlined budget so picking right architect would make it easy.
- Forecasting future needs: Using forecasting modelling and by analysing the demand of the future with financial consultants and other stakeholders.
- Adopting green building strategies: Green Building Council has been at the forefront of environmentally friendly hospital design, awarding highly-sought LEED certification to hospitals that show efficient design, construction and operation of green buildings and hospitals. These types of green building strategies will cost more upfront.
- Community Backlash: A hospital is a community service, and hospital buildings can be major architectural features of their geographic areas. While that presents an exciting opportunity, it can also mean that community members may have their own opinions or objections to the project
BENEFITS OF RENOVATING A HOSPITAL
- Infection risk is reduced. The risk of being infected by bacteria acquired at the hospital is greatly reduced when the hospital is improved by renovations.
- More rooms become available. Through smart utilization of available space, more rooms may be created for patients.
- Performance of hospital is increased. With more patients in the hospital, the performance could further increase, which again leads to a better image for the hospital and greater profit.
- Staff will work more effectively. When the latest technology is installed and upgraded, it will cause the hospital staff to work harder and more effectively too.
- Reducing of operation costs. When the available resources are fully utilized, it will lead to a reduction in operation costs.
- Prevent Accidents. The newest safety technology use will definitely be a factor in the prevention of accidents.
- Reduce Operational costs. When the cutback of both energy and water is introduced, it will immediately reduce the overall operational costs of the hospital.
- New Look. Due to the changed layout and design of the hospital, it will look upgraded and new-and thus, more appealing.
- Reducing Solar heat gain. When the use of patient-controlled electrical shades for the room windows is introduced, it will reduce the gaining of solar heat.
CONCLUSION
Hospitals are an effective means for preventing the spread of newly emerged infections and diseases. Without well-established building facilities and healthcare systems, hospitals can become hazardous workplaces with danger to the health and safety of both patients and staff. There are a definite overall improvement to hospitals that undergoes the correct renovations. Upgrading the existing facilities and systems improves energy performance and the health of all patients. Hence, sustainable renovation is a win-win strategy for hospital planning and management in the future.
Are you planning to renovate your healthcare organisation? We can help you to design your dream project, below are the healthcare design services that we offer:-
- Healthcare Architecture Design services
- MEP Design
- Landscape Design services
- Structural Design services
- Interior Design services
For more details kindly contact Hospaccx Healthcare business consulting Pvt. ltd on hospaccx.india@gmail.com Or you can visit our website at www.hospaccxconsulting.com
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