Hcs 446 Facility Planning Research Paper

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Facility Planning Part 1
Barbara D. Hulsey
HCS 446
August 19, 2013
Dr. Michael Snell

Facility Planning Part 1
Nestled in the beautiful Ouachita Mountains in the rural Arkansas community of just over 3,000 residents is a community of one rural hospital with 26 beds and a hospital clinic with one resident doctor and rotating doctors for the Emergency Room and weekends. There is also a long term nursing facility with 60 beds and is always filled to capacity that is located on the same campus as the hospital. This community lost a doctor that served the town for over 25 years when he suddenly passed away leaving the town with only one doctor and an Emergency Room doctor from another city. Since that time, the community finally received another doctor willing to move into and serve the area.
This community is in need of a family clinic with at least two doctors in residence, this student will be using
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The results that are achieved are depending on the design elements that will support the success with rooms designed and dedicated to the patient and his or her family. Clinics are now designing patient environments to accommodate the critically ill or disabled patients; this student will attempt to incorporate specialized design into the clinic if the floor plan allows (Pub med, 2006).
Health care services are challenging because of the nature of the patient flow. At each stage of the process the patient will experience waiting time; this is a problematic area of the health care operations. This must be managed carefully in both the waiting times and also the patient’s perception of waiting, this student will provide optimal solutions to this in facility planning part two (Healthcare Services Operations,

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