Health Care Facility Design
Imagine that you were tasked to redesign a Primary Care facility in your local community. You facility should include elements like:
- The health care structure such as walls, doors, hallways, waiting areas, and related structural components
- Diagnostic and treatment space equipment and location
- Customer service and amenities, such as the reception desk, bathroom, shower, vending machine, and so forth
- Clinical support areas, such as nurse’s station, charting areas, and so forth
- Physician or dentist office space for patient consultation
- Administrative offices
- Building support, such as laundry, generator facilities, housekeeping, and so forth
- Mechanical equipment, such as space for laboratory equipment, radiology equipment, gases such as oxygen, and suctions
- Color and noise elements
- Regulatory elements such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration and ADA guidelines
- Sustainability options
- Other elements such as IT or creative healing environmental ideas
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word summary of your project that includes the following information:
- If this is a renovation
- Reason you selected the facility
- Who are your stakeholders for this project
- What are your planning needs
- What are your planning goals
- Cost estimates for one room in your facility – provide a chart containing each item in the room, the items estimated cost, and a total for that one room.
- How would you handle budget planning
- What you learned from completing your own floor plan
- What is your rationale for design choices
- Any recommendations or suggestions for completing your floor plan differently – what would you do differently next tim
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I chose to renovate the health care facility in my local community since the current facility was facing several challenges. The health care facility in its current state is unable to support new medical technologies since the current technology that is being used is outdated. The healthcare facility is also unable to offer the best services as needed by the patients in its…
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