Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Planning, Organizations and Management

by Syed Amin Tabish

Health care is such a dynamic, complex, process-oriented environment; things are constantly changing. In today’s dynamic environment healthcare facilities are one of the fastest changing organizations. The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to some of the basic ideas and research in hospital planning, design, construction, organization, and management. This book divided into four parts that mainly focus on healthcare facility planning: past, present, and future, hospital: design and development, hospital administration, and the enlightenment and scientific revolution. Each part of the book contains many relatively chapters. Each chapter of the book deals with a particular topic beginning with a theoretical framework from which the subject could be approached. This book provides the step-by-step process of planning and state-of-the-art design to achieve a viable facility to meet this objective. It covers the planning and design problems of hospitals with a deep insight. This book is useful particularly for clinical directors/head of the clinical and paraclinical departments, unit managers, in-charge of service departments, laboratories, and patient care areas. All therapeutic and diagnostic facilities have been discussed in detail with extraordinary emphasis on nursing zone, clinical zone, support zone and utility services.

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