Index

Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Planning, Organisations and Management Syed Amin Tabish

PART ONE: HEALTHCARE FACILITY PLANNING: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
1:The Art and Science of Medicine
2:The Hospital
3:Hospital Organization and Structure
4:Growth of the Modern Hospital
5:Changing System of Health Services Concepts
6:Changing Concepts in the Health Facility Planning
7:Regional Planning
- THE PLANNINGORGANIZATION MACHINERY
8:Planning Health Facilities
9:Renovation
10:The Process of Planning
11:Towards Total Health Care
12:The Patient–Centred Approach
13:Patient-FocussedHospital
14:Emerging Approaches in Hospital Design
15:Nucleus Concept
16:Modular Building Concept
17:Hospital Modernization
18:Cutting Construction Costs
19:Humanising Health Care Facilities
20:Autonomous Health Care Facilities
21:Recent Trends in Hospital Architecture
22:Future Trends
23:The Hospital of Tomorrow
PART TWO: HOSPITAL: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
24:Hospital: From The Center of Excellence to Community Support
- The Design Stage
25:Fundamentals of Design
26:Functional Design
27:Profile of the Hospital Environment
28:Environment
- INTERNAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM
29:Influence of Climate on Buildings
30:Space Programming and Functional Systems
31:Hospital Patient
32:Floors, Walls and Installations
33:The Nursing Zone
- INPATIENT SERVICES
- WARD PLANNING
34:The Clinical Zone
- PATIENT-FOCUSED EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
- OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT
- OPERATING DEPARTMENT
  - PLANNING PATIENT-FOCUSSED SURGICAL SUITE SYSTEM
- CRITICAL CARE UNITS
- MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
- Emerging Trends in Intensive Therapy Unit
- ACUTE NURSING CARE UNITS
- MEDICAL MONITORING
- ISOLATION OF PATIENTS
- OBSTETRICS DEPARTMENT
- DAY CARE FACILITIES
- AMBULATORY SURGERY FACILITY
- HOSPITAL STANDARDS FOR THE CARE OF HIV INFECTED PERSONS
  - AMBULATORY TREATMENT
- Healthcare Facilities for Elderly People
  - SUMMARY
  - Appendix A
- RENAL DIALYSIS UNIT
- CARDIAC CATHETERISATION LABORATORY
- PULMONARY MEDICINE
35:The Support Zone
- PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
  - Physical Therapy
  - OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
  - HYDROTHERAPY
    - Planning of Hydrotherapy Department
    - Rehabilitation
- LABORATORY PLANNING AND LAYOUT
  - SUMMARY
- PLANNING A MEDICAL LASER PROGRAMME
- RADIODIAGNOSIS DEPARTMENT
  - FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMME
    - Construction Recommendation
    - Diagnostic Radiology
  - LASER IMAGING IN CLINICAL RADIOLOGY
  - CONCLUSION
- MEDICAL RESONANCE IMAGING
- COMPARISON OF VARIOUS IMAGING TECHNIQUES
  - MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
- POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY
- DESIGNING A CT SCAN ROOM
- EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCKWAVE LITHOTRIPSY
- RADIATION ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENT
- THE BRACHYTHERAPY
- NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPARTMENT
- BLOOD TRANSFUSION CENTRE
  - REGIONAL CENTRE
  - NATIONAL CENTRE
- HOSPITAL BLOOD BANK
- MEDICAL INFORMATICS
  - ESTABLISHING A FULLY NETWORKED IMAGING PROGRAM
  - NETWORKING
    - Networking Basics
- MEDICAL RECORDS DEPARTMENT
  - SUMMARY
- ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD
- CENTRAL STERILE SERVICE DEPARTMENT
- DIETARY SERVICES
  - FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMME
- THE HOSPITAL PHARMACY
- PLANNING OF LAUNDRY SERVICES
- MEDICAL-SURGICAL GASES AND VACUUM
- LIBRARIES IN HOSPITALS
36:Planning a District Hospital
37:Planning of Health Centers
38:Hospital Engineering Services
39:Fire Safety in Health Care Facility
40:Morgue/Mortuary
41:Housing Facilities
- RESEARCH FACILITIES
42:Landscaping
43:Parking
PART THREE: HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
44:Hospital Acquired Infection
45:Management: A Conceptual and Experiential Approach
46:Staffing Pattern
47:Waste Management and Ecohealth
48:Telemedicine
49:Appendices
- Constitution of the Community Hospital
- GENERAL EVALUATION AND CHECKLIST FOR ANY EXISTING BUILDING
- FIRE SAFETY IN HOSPITALS

INDEX

TOC
Index

Chapter Notes