Hospital and Healthcare Facilities
Hospital and Healthcare Facilities
Hospital and Healthcare Facilities
3. Emergency hospital – Provides definite care in the four basic specialties. It has an
average bed capacity of 25 to 50 beds
• Medicine
• Surgery
• Obstetrics
• Gynecology
• Pediatrics.
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Types of Hospitals as to size:
4. Rural Health Unit – A unit engaged in a broad range of activities such as
treatment, consultation and dispensation of drugs and medicines; operation,
calls and attendance at houses, deliveries, sanitary campaigns, immunizations
and emergency treatment. These RHU’s may have 2 to 3 beds serving a
population of 5,000 to 50,000 people. The catchment area is the whole of the
municipality if the population is 50,000 or less.
5. Barrio Health Station – It serves as the most basic unit which dispenses primary
health care (that of maternal and sanitary health care). The recommended service
zone is from 3 to 8 kilometers.
25 1,125 sq. m.
50 1,887 sq. m.
75 2,137 sq. m.
100 3,400 sq. m.
125 3,659 sq. m.
150 6,280 sq. m.
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The bed- population ratio according to the Department of Health is 1 bed per
2,000 population while the standard of the World Health Organization is 1 bed
per 1,000 population.
Republic Act No. 1080 provides that a local government should provide a rural
health clinic for every 10,000 population with at least 1 physician, 1 nurse, 1
midwife and1 sanitary officer.
The land most suitable for locating a health center is on a topography which is
generally flat. The slope may range from less than 4% to 10%. Clayey gravel and
clayey sands are the appropriate soil type for a health center. These type of soil
have more than 10% - 12% silt and clay which make it stable when loaded with
adequate bearing foundations.
Access
The health center must be at least 800 meters away from the nearest residential
zone and accessible within a maximum travel time of one hour (50 kms.) from the
farthest residential zone.
General Services
The health center should be reached within a 2-5 minute travel time from the nearest
fire station. Another protective service that is complementary to the health center is
the police station, which is recommended to be located within 1 to 5 kilometers from
the health center, or 5 minutes travel time.
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Hospitals are considered as the most complex of building types.
Design considerations:
Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness
Flexibility and Expandability
Therapeutic Environment
Cleanliness and Sanitation
Accessibility
Controlled Circulation
Aesthetics
Sustainability
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Design considerations:
Efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Efficiency by minimizing distance of necessary travel between frequently
used spaces
• Allow easy visual supervision of patients by limited staff
• Include all needed spaces, but no redundant ones.
Therapeutic Environment
• Using cheerful and varied colors and textures, keeping in mind that some
colors are inappropriate and can interfere with provider assessments of
patients' pallor and skin tones, disorient older or impaired patients, or agitate
patients and staff, particularly some psychiatric patients .
• Admitting ample natural light wherever feasible and using color-corrected
lighting in interior spaces which closely approximates natural daylight
• Providing views of the outdoors from every patient bed,
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Design considerations:
Cleanliness
• Appropriate, durable finishes for each functional space
• Careful detailing of such features as doorframes, casework, and finish
transitions to avoid dirt-catching and hard-to-clean crevices and joints
• Adequate and appropriately located housekeeping spaces
• Special materials, finishes, and details for spaces
Accessibility
All areas, both inside and out, should:
Comply with the minimum requirements of the National Building Code, Fire
Code and Accessibility Law.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is closely related to creating a therapeutic environment (homelike,
attractive.) Increased use of natural light, natural materials, and textures
• Use of artwork
• Attention to proportions, color, scale, and detail
• Bright, open, generously-scaled public spaces
• Homelike and intimate scale in patient rooms, day rooms, consultation rooms,
and offices
• Compatibility of exterior design with its physical surroundings
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Design considerations:
Controlled circulation
A hospital is a complex system of interrelated functions requiring constant
movement of people and goods. Much of this circulation should be controlled.
• Outpatients visiting diagnostic and treatment areas should not travel through
inpatient functional areas nor encounter severely ill inpatients
• Typical outpatient routes should be simple and clearly defined
• Visitors should have a simple and direct route to each patient nursing unit
without penetrating other functional areas
• Separate patients and visitors from industrial/logistical areas or floors
• Entrance/waiting/reception/patient amenity
• Record storage/administration
• Consulting/examination rooms/interview rooms
• Treatment rooms (general and specialized)
• Diagnostic rooms (general and specialized)
• Large spaces with associated storage for group activities (baby
clinics, health education, relaxation classes)
• Staff office bases
• Seminar rooms/meeting rooms/library
• Staff facilities
• Support facilities (clean and dirty utility rooms, storage, disposal,
cleaners’ rooms)
• Non-acute in-patient wards with support
• Plant rooms
• Car parking/drop off points
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Spatial arrangements
Hospital
•Hospitality •Clinical
•In-patient laboratories
functions,
care • Imaging
/such as food service
or bed-related • Emergency
/housekeeping
function. rooms
• Utilities
•Surgery
• Clinics
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Spatial relationship
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General spatial arrangements
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Site development plan
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Site planning
healthcare
Room/beds E
Nurse station/utilities
Hallways and exits
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Site planning
ROOM modules =
30.00- 36.00m
SUPPORT
ALTERNATIVE 1
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Site planning
SUPPORT
SUPPORT
ALTERNATIVE 2
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Character
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Character
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Hospital interiors
Lobby Out-patient