Opening a new hospital of any kind requires meticulous planning, detailed stakeholder discussion, availability of resources, impact assessment, and analysis especially when the intended project is hoped to meet competitive modern requirements, business expectations, and patient preference. The focus person will work with other key team members to hold series of planning meetings between key beneficiaries of the intended facility, construction team leaders, and the specific department heads for units under construction during all phases of the construction. These Implementing partners (IP) will dialogue to determine sites specificity, unit design, required departments, needed ventilation standards, water, and waste management, and other identified issues that would need to be addressed in the hospital licensing phase. The input of the same team is crucially essential for meeting building requirements, selection of new products and equipment, placement of hand hygiene stations, isolation procedures, devised workflows, paths of travel for waste, and development of new policies based on the new hospitals in question. The IP team will constantly establish series of simple checklists, straightforward tools to educate and keep the project team and other staff informed on all stages of the process up to move day plan (MDP)
Knowing that hospital workflow management is a delicate, result-focused, business-sensitive, and evidence-influenced undertaking. De Amaya, et al. (2015), that opening hospital will focus on these decisions with this motivation. For new construction, senior management work for optimization which usually affects everybody within the hospital environment – including patients. Unhappy employees and dissatisfied patients will not achieve the objective of improving hospital workflows which will ultimately have a negative effect on the desired workflow. Fenton, et al. (2019). In the highly regulated healthcare industry, the process of assessing how to improve hospital workflows also has to take into account regulations governing how certain activities are conducted. One of these activities – the communication of electronic Protected Healthcare Information (ePHI) – is governed by several sets of regulations (HIPAA, HITECH, etc.). A solution exists for the communication of ePHI that has been proven to improve hospital workflows, increase productivity and help to deliver a higher standard of patient care – secure messaging. These decisions also constitute what is regarded as an evidence-based approach to medicine.
References.
De Amaya, A., Canola, M., Guzman, O., Martin, J. & (2015). AJIC (American Journal of Infection Control), 43 (6), S41. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.04.104
Fenton, S. H., & Smith, D. H. (2019). Evidence-based operations management in health information management: A case study. Perspectives in health information management, 16(Fall), 1f
