Master Planning Model for Healthcare Facility Design

Abstract

One of the important and expensive decisions confronting a healthcare organization involves facility life cycle management. Facility life cycle management decisions can involve the expenditure of millions of dollars of funds, and are a component of executing a healthcare organization's strategic plan. Poorly made facility life cycle management decisions may result in facilities that are unable to meet patient needs, or support the organization's strategic goals. Federal and civilian healthcare organizations have developed various methodologies to determine the type and size of healthcare facility to build. Some of these methodologies use numerous benchmarks and complex models to provide a recommended facility solution. The purpose of this study is to provide military health system leaders in the national capital area with a streamlined facility master planning model to be used when considering medical facility projects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 06, 2005
Accession Number
ADA444001

Entities

People

  • Christopher F. Drum

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Patient Care
  • Patient Care Management
  • Physicians
  • Therapy
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

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