Textbooks:
Hayward, C. (2006). Healthcare Facility Planning: Thinking Strategically. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
Vickery, C.G., Nyberg, G., &Whiteaker, D. (2015). Modern Clinic Design: Strategies for an Era of Change. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Instructions: Please ensure to substantiate your response with scholarly sources and/or also a personal account of your own experience in the work place or personal life. Cite and reference work! Must be 150 -200 word count.
1. How might disaster- or emergency-response planning be used to improve organizational processes?
2. Why does the National Fire Protection Association require that wall and floor coverings, as well as certain fabrics used in health care facilities, be fire rated?
3. The overview discusses estimating budget costs in health care facility design--in these techniques for approximating capital resources -do discuss one:
i. Expert judgment
ii. Analogous estimating
iii. Parametic estimating
iv. Bottom-up estimating
v. Three-point extimating
4. This chapter discussed long range facility investment strategies and provides a road map to guide renovation, construction and capital investment. What are the advantages of having a facility investment strategy? What are some common strategies?
5. In estimating the cost of your renovation or new construction -is your facility a minor, moderate or major renovation and why?
6. In respect to your facility plan -review the privatization of projects--is yours an immediate, short-term, long -range or independent project?
7. With your facility plan ---let's work on your operational & space program--pick a component and discuss:
i. Current situation (baseline)
ii. Future Vision and Planning Goals
iii. Current & Projected workloads
iv. Planned hours of operation
v. Equipment, Technology and Support Systems
vi. Functional Adjacencies and Access
vii. Future Trends and Operational Flexibility
viii. Outstanding issues to be resolved
8. Discuss the required skills of a Project Management in facility design?
9. Discuss stakeholders and who they are and why are they important?
10. Discuss a communication plan that you would develop to manage the flow of project information.
11. Discuss how you as the Lead in this facility's design will maximize your team's performance?
12. Discuss how you will communicate the project status to stakeholders for their feedback?
13. Discuss how a Project Team Leader uses appropriate tools to measure project performance?
14. Your investor was intrigued by each of your team's bariatric facility designs. The investor has asked that you provide them with your budget and Gantt chart for them to review.
Select one of the bariatric facilities that were created in the Week 3
- Rehabilitation
- Surgical
- Critical care
Create a 3-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes discussing the budget and implementation of your facility. Include the following in your presentation:
• Detail the steps in an implementation plan (Gantt chart) for your bariatric facility based on the five project management process groups.
a. Include references and research to support your implementation plan.
15. As you continue to build your final facility, the legal team has provided you with considerations for researching legal and regulatory requirements that may affect the facility planning process.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that includes the following:
• Introduction
• Analyze local, state, and federal legal and regulatory requirements for your selected facility.
• Evaluate the impact of legal and regulatory requirements on the development of organizational health care policies related to facility design for your selected facility.
• Evaluate accountability and liability implications for individuals and organizations within facility design for your selected facility.
• Analyze legal versus ethical considerations related to facility design for your selected facility.
• Conclusion
Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references and Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
16. Continue to add to your floor plan started in Week Three.See below Floor Plan
Equipment
• All equipment that should be considered for use by the patient, staff, and families.
Regulatory
• Color and noise elements
• Regulatory elements, such as Occupational Safety & Health Administration and ADA guidelines.
Save your design after it is completed.
Part 2
Write a 260- to 350-word summary that includes the following:
• Describe the considerations you made when deciding which equipment you would add to your floor plan.
• Describe the regulatory additions to your floor plan.
- Identify equipment you would have liked to add to your floor plan
-Cite a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references and Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
