Thursday, February 24

Planning for a New Hospital



Let us recapitulate what we have discussed so far. We started with an introduction to career as Hospital Administrator, and the various opportunities available to serve as administrator in the field of Health.

Then we discussed how the name ‘HOSPITAL’ originated and various definitions of hospital.

After this , tried to know more about hospital, like Hospital system, peculiarities of Hospital as an Organisation, with passage of time how the role and function of the hospital is changing(ref) and challenges being faced by the modern hospitals(ref).

Finally we tried to acknowledge the qualities and roles of a Hospital Administrator.

Now we will prepare the Idol of the Hospital and ornament it with various services step by step.

We prepare Idols of Ma Durga, Ma Saraswati, Lord Ganesh and so on, then we decorate them with ornaments and Instruments to give them a complete shape before we start Worshiping.Similarly the Idol of the Hospital starts with planning for a new hospital.

The planning of a hospital begins with formation of a planning team. What is this planning team? What is the necessity of such a team and how it functions?

Planning of a new hospital starts from selection of site to commissioning of the hospital. There are various important steps in hospital planning and each step has its own importance.

Therefore, we will discuss step by step how a new hospital is commissioned from its stage of planning in the today’s presentation.