Planning and Designing of Specialty Healthcare Facilities

by Shakti Kumar Gupta, R Chandrashekhar, Sunil Kant

The book is intended to facilitate the planning and designing of new superspecialty hospitals and to steer a clear path for hospital administrators, planners and medical architects through the systems and processes that they need to understand as members of a team overseeing the planning of new hospital building projects, major refurbishment or remodeling of an existing hospital. The book comprises 51 chapters. Chapters on wellness center, green and smart hospitals, telemedicine, assisted reproductive technology facility, critical care unit, sleep center, nanomedicine and nanotechnology, stem cell center and facility for robotic surgery may be appropriately and optimally utilized as standalone or add on centers with existing healthcare institutions. Chapter 50 titled “COVID-19: Planning Premises and Design Considerations for Healthcare Facilities” incorporates metamorphic changes in the planning and designing of specialty healthcare facilities necessitated by the global emergence of COVID-19 disease. Last Chapter 51, “Laws Applicable to Hospitals” provides a comprehensive brief of the diverse legal and statutory norms applicable to hospitals. This book is great relevance to architects unfamiliar with hospital building requirements

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