Investing in hospitals of the future / Bernd Rechel ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rechel, Bernd, 1970-

European Health Property Network.

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

Series:

Observatory Studies, 16

Observatory Studies, 16 ; v.No. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals--Finance.

Hospitals.

Capital investments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : World Health Organization, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite considerable investments in health facilities worldwide, little systematic evidence is available on how to plan, design and build new facilities that maximize health gain and ensure that services are responsive to the large number of issues that are examined, including new models of long-term care, capacity planning, the impact of capital investment on the health care workforce, markets and competition, systems used for procurement and financing, the whole lifecycle of health facilities, facility management, the wider impact of capital investment on the local community and economy, how care models can be translated into capital asset solutions, and issues of therapeutic and sustainable design. This book is of value to those interested in the planning, financing, construction, and management of new health facilities. It identifies critical lessons that increase the chances that capital projects will be successful.

Contents:

Contents; About the authors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; List of figures, tables and boxes; Part one:The changing context of capital investment; Chapter 1 Introduction: hospitals within a changing context; Chapter 2 New models of long-term care and implications for service redesign; Part two: Influencing capital investment; Chapter 3 Planning health care capacity: whose responsibility?; Chapter 4 Concept planning:getting capital investment right; Chapter 5 Capital investment and the health care workforce; Part three: Economic aspects of capital investment

Chapter 6 Market competition in European hospital care Chapter 7 Capital financing models, procurement strategies and decision-making; Chapter 8 Life-cycle economics: cost, functionality and adaptability; Chapter 9 Facility management of hospitals; Chapter 10 The economic and community impact of health capital investment; Part four: Design issues; Chapter 11 Translating hospital services into capital asset solutions; Chapter 12 Sustainable design for health; Part five: Conclusions; Chapter 13 Conclusions and critical success factors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-50177-1

9786612501777

92-890-4305-9

OCLC:

536418861