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HCS 446 Wk 1 Individual Assignment: Facility Design Process

After working in facility design for many years, you have become well-known in the industry. Your manager has asked you to create either a paper or short handout that new employees can refer to as they receive training through the company. This paper or handout should guide new employees through the process of facility planning.

 

Create a 350- to 525-word paper or handout summarizing the process of addressing facility planning needs in which you:

  • Describe the steps of facility planning.
  • Consider listing the steps involved in facility planning as part of your description.
  • Explain the importance of pre-design planning.
  • Explain the rationale (or decision process) when determining whether to renovate or replace a health care facility.

 

Note: A handout can be a flyer, brochure, poster, etc.

 

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

HCS 446 Wk 1 Individual Assignment Floorplan Design Tool Approval

In this course, you are required to design a floor plan for a health care facility. This will include designing the layout of rooms within the facility as well as adding environmental, regulatory, and IT elements within the rooms you design.

Review the Facility Planning Guide to familiarize yourself with the requirements of the project.

 Research software programs you can use to create a floor plan, and choose one (do pay attention to possible costs, some programs are “free to preview” but are not free for the entire 5 weeks of the course). It is acceptable to use Microsoft programs (Excel or powerpoint) as an option.

For this project, you may use the program of your choice to complete the floor plan. Some programs to consider are Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Visio®, Publisher®, Excel®, or online floor plan programs such as Edraw, SmartDraw, Gliffy, and Lucidchart. Your faculty member will need to approve your choice, since he or she must be able to view your project in order to grade it. It is important to note that the purpose of this project is not to be an expert at creating a facility using your chosen program, but rather to ensure the concepts learned in this course can be applied to the facility design principles. Your use of the floor planning program is meant to enhance your learning of the course and program concepts.

Write a brief explanation as to why you chose the program and why it is the best choice for this assignment. Include details on how the faculty member will be able to access your project. Do include a title page, in addition to an APA formatted page with one paragraph minimum required (no reference required).

Submit your assignment.

 

 

 

HCS 446 Wk 2 Team Assignment: Evolution of Facility Design

Complete the Evolution of Facility Design worksheet to discuss the evolution of health care facility design from the 1900s to now.

 

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

HCS 446 Wk 2 Individual Assignment: Facility Selection and Research

Health care facilities have uniquely defined characteristics based on the needs of the facility or population served. Poor design may lead to staff, visitor, or patient stress. In large facilities, the inability to find a department may lead to frustrations and disorientation. Poor layout may also lead to staff inefficiencies or fines because of failure to meet regulatory requirements.

 

Throughout this course you will design a floor plan for the facility you select in this assignment. This assignment illustrates the difficult balances between patient flow, workflow, safety, and aesthetics. You will use this document as a guide to understand the environmental design elements you should include in your final design. You will submit the Facility Planning Template each week as your assignment.

 

Complete the Week 2 section of the Facility Planning Template.

 

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

HCS 446 Wk 3 Team Assignment: Bariatric Unit Facility Planning

Congratulations, you have been promoted to lead project manager (PM) to oversee a bariatric facility adjacent to the hospital campus. The executive stakeholder is the hospital’s chief financial officer (CFO), and as the lead PM, you will work closely with the director of facilities. You created a team consisting of a cross-functional group of hospital stakeholders and members of the community. As you and your team start to work, you find that the standards for developing a bariatric unit are not as well-defined as other units. Your team has several opinions for what this unit may look like and work together to create a presentation that will satisfy the investor’s needs.

 

As a team, research bariatric units and how they are designed in a hospital setting.

 

Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that showcases your team’s facility to the investors. Your presentation should:

  • Analyze essential environmental elements in bariatric facility design that would be important to the community stakeholders.
  • Differentiate between the facility equipment and technology used within a bariatric facility for your clinical stakeholders.
  • Analyze the use of community demographics and accessibility within facility planning for your bariatric facility.
  • Explain to your financial stakeholders the importance of creating a facility based on the needs of your bariatric patients.
  • Include images of ideal bariatric facility components in the presentation. Note: Image credit is required for images copied from the internet.

 

Note: Your learning team can create an ideal facility for use in the presentation.

 

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

 

Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Include a title page, detailed speaker notes, and a references page.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

HCS 446 Wk 3 Individual Assignment: Facility Planning—Floor Plan, Part 1

The construction of evidence-based health care facilities includes careful planning and layout, as well as considerations for the health of the population to be served. Evidence-based health care facilities planning also needs input from a cross-functional team of informed stakeholders and the integration of best-practices in modern design and regulatory requirements.

 

This week you will focus on your facility’s structure and the areas contained within it. Next week you will add assets to your facility.

 

Add the required design components to your facility.

 

Complete the Week 3 section of the Facility Planning Template.

 

Cite at least 1 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar reference.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

HCS 446 Wk 4 Individual Assignment: Facility Planning—Floor Plan, Part 2

This week you will continue to build your final facility. The legal team has asked you to provide them with considerations regarding legal and regulatory requirements that may affect the facility planning process.

 

Add the required design components to your facility.

 

Complete the Facility Planning Template.

 

Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

HCS 446 Wk 5 Team Assignment: Environmental Management in Health Care Facilities

You and your team have been assigned to manage a renovation project from an old warehouse to a medical office building. You have been asked to manage one of the internal environmental impacts, such as hazardous waste management, fire and safety management, disaster management, security management, or ADA guidelines, in the newly renovated building.

 

The discussion of the cross-functional team members reveals their concern regarding topics like how to handle fire safety or hazardous waste at the newly renovated facility. The internal stakeholders, including the director of facilities and human resources manager, are interested specifically in the ADA guidelines.

 

Note: The term environmental does not relate to the outside environment such as trees and animals.

 

As a team, research the standard operating procedures for the areas listed below and select an area that you will incorporate into the renovation of the warehouse into the medical office building.

 

Select one of the following areas to use in your facility and presentation:

  • Hazardous waste management
  • Fire and safety management
  • Disaster management
  • Security management
  • ADA guidelines

 

Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for one of the selected areas in the renovation of your facility. Your presentation should:

  • Explain how the five project management process groups would be applied to the planning, design, and construction so as to incorporate the area you selected above.
  • Explain the local, state, and federal legal and regulatory requirements for the area you selected. Consider the following agencies:
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • Joint Commission
  • Your state’s health planning and development agency
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Explain the standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will be used in your renovated facility.
  • Consider the stakeholders that may play a role in the SOPs.
  • Detail the steps in an implementation plan (Gantt chart) for the area selected based on the five project management process groups.
  • Explain budget planning and cost estimates for incorporating the area you selected into the renovated facility.

 

Cite at least 5 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

 

Format your citations according to APA guidelines. Include a title page, detailed speaker notes, and a references page.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

HCS 446 Wk 5 Individual Assignment: Facility Planning—Floor Plan, Part 3

This week you will complete your floor plan by incorporating additional elements, such as IT equipment and creative healing elements. It is important to review your facility and consider any additional changes based on the knowledge you have gained throughout the course.

 

Add the required design components, and complete your facility.

 

Complete the Week 5 section of the Facility Planning Template.

 

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

 

Provide your instructor with any necessary access, links, files, or instructions needed to access your floor plan.

 

Submit your assignment.