A 500-BED SUBURBAN GENERAL HOSPITAL

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS

FOR THE DEGREE,
MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE, JULY, 1961
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Sidney W. Stubbs...........................
Bachelor in Architecture, Clson College, 195 .
Lawrence B. Anderson,....... ........
Head, Department of Architecture
July, 1961
Pietro Belluschi, Dean
School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dear Dean Belluschi:
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master in Architecture, I hereby submit my thesis entitled.,
A 500-Bed Suburban General Hospital.
Respectfully
yours,
4/
Sidney W. tubbs, Jr.
ABSTRACT
A 500-BED SUBURBAN GENERAL HOSPITAL
SIDNEY W. STUBBS, JR.
SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR TEE DEGREE OF MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE, JULY, 1961.
This Thesis proposes the design of a 500-bed general hospital to
fill the medical needs for a rapidly growing satellite city with
a population of 100,000 within a normal automobile radius of
twenty minutes.
The problem is an hypothetical one derived from the Third Annual
Competition sponsored by the Mastic Tile Division of the Ruberoid
Company and from recommendations of the Public Health Service of
the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The Coordinated Hospital System ..............
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The Site...............................................7
Circulation............................................8
Expansion.... ............................................ 10
Functional Relationships and Design Consideration........11
References............................................46
Space Requirements............ ........................... 47
Solution.............................................
Appendices
Bibliography............................
Third Annual Design Competition Program...
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THE COORDINATED HOSPITAL SYSTEM 1'
"To improve hospital service along its three major fronts - preventive,
diagnostic, therapeutic - all states now are developing their 'coordi-
nated hospital system'.' Such a plan proposes tying all hospitals
into a cooperative hook-up in which there would be a constant exchange
of. information, training, consultation service and personnel, and
iaw'hich patients would be referred from one hospital to another.
With the large "base" or "teaching" hospital as the center, next in
line would be a large general hospital called here a "district" hospi-
tal. Then a smaller one, the "rural" hospital, of minimum size for
genuine hospital service. For the isolated community there would be a
community clinic with a small nursing unit for obstetrical or emergency
cases, not really a hospital at all, but an outpost at the far end of
the line."
The hospital proposed in this Thesis would be of the "district" type.
Having a beginning as a hospital of "rural" size it would expand to
"district" size within a period of 15 years.
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BASE
HOSPITAL
Teaching,
Research,
Consultation
CANCER CLINIC
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE
HEART CLINIC
MAJOR SURGERY
INTERNAL MEDICINE
OBSTETRICS
PEDIATRICS
ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES
Tuberculosis
Venereal Disease
Other
TEACHING
Nurses
Interns
Residentsq
Post-Graduates
DISTRICT
HOSPITAL
RURAL
HOSPITAL
and Health
Center
MAJOR SURGERY
OBSTETRICS
INTERNAL MEDICINE
INTERNAL MEDICINE
OBSTETRICS
EYE,EAR,NOSE,
THROAT
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
tuberculosis DENTISTRY
venereal disease
other
PEDIATRICS
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE
EYE,EAR,
NOSE,
THROAT
DENTISTRY
PHYSIOTHERAPY
LABORATORY
X-ray
Pathology
Bacteriology
Chemical
MINOR AND UNCOM-
PLICATED SURGERY
LABORATORY
x-ray
bacteriology
ADMINISTRATIVE
PUBLIC HEALTH
OFFICES
Health Officer
COMMUNITY
CLINIC
OBSTETRICS
EMERGENCY MEDICAL
AND SURGERY
LABORATORY
x-ray
bacteriology
DENTISTRY
PRIVATE OFFICE OR
OFFICES FOR PRIVATE
PHYSICIANS
ADMINISTRATIVE PUBLIC
HEALTH OFFICES
Health Officer
Sanitarian
Public Health Nurses
Public Health Clinics
Maternal and Child
Health
Sanitarian Tuberculosis
Public Health Nurses Venereal Disease
Public Health Clinics Public Health Education
Maternal and Child
Health
Tuberculosis
Venereal Disease
Public Health Edu-
cation
LABORATORY
X-ray
Pathology
Baderiology
Chemical
PHYSIOTHERAPY
DENTISTRY
EYE, EARNOSE, THROAT
DIETETICS
TEACHING
Nurses
Interns
Dietetics
U. S.P H.S. COORDINATED SYSTEM
BASE
DISTRICT
RURAL
El
COMMUNITY
L* CRONIC DISEASE
CLINIC
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THE SITE
The site is located in a rapidly growing satellite city on the fringe of a
major metropolis. The site is bounded on the north by a large industrial
park; on the east and south-east by a recreation and education area consisting
of schools, parks and playgrounds; on the west and southwest by a secondary
road with a new and rapidly growing residential area beyond. The site slopes
from the north-east corner to a small river running through the lower portion
from west to east.
There are older residential areas, schools, churches, and a shopping center in
the ,vicinity. The site is joined by the secondary road toa four-lane highway
to the east and to a major six-lane highway to the north leading to the metro-
politan area.
Private automobiles would make up the majority of the traffic into the site with
some local bus service.
INDUSTRIAL
SITE
EDUCATION-
RECREATION
ONE MILE
PARK
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CIRCULATION
"Separate all departments, yet keep them all close together; separate types of
traffc,.
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traffic., yet save steps for everybody; that's all there is to hospital planning".
Good circulation is basically the proper integration of the different departments
so that the different types of traffic through the building will be separated as
much as possible, traffic routes will be short, and important functions will be
protected against intrusion.
The primary principle of circulation planning is protection of the patient. Too
much or the wrong kind of traffic will disturb or contaminate the patient in the
nursing unit, destrcy the aseptic technique of the surgical suite, and reduce
the efficiency of the hospital personnel. Short traffic routes assist in as-
surance of asepsis and also save time and steps for the doctors, nurses and
other personnel thus helping to prevent fatigue. Separation of dissimilar
activities is also important. Quiet and noisy activi es, "clean" and "dirty"
cases, different types of patients, etc. should be separated. Even with good
disposition of functions and good separation of traffic, positive control points
are required for proper circulation.
Good circulation begins outside of the building. There are four major traffic
lines; in-patients and visitors, out-patients, emergency patients, and service and
non-professional employees. To these could be added an entrance for doctors so
that they could enter directly from the doctors' parking area and not be stopped
by visitors and relatives.
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The emergency entrance would be used for real emergency cases requiring im-
mediate attention in the emergency suite. The emergency case might also be
a drunk, a criminal, a psychiatric case or a medically "dirty" patient.
The service and employee entrance shwld actually be two entrances. They can
be located in the same area but should be separated.
Parking should be grouped in so far as possible for the entrances served to
help separate the types of traffic. Doctors should be provided with a private
readily accessible parking area.
Figure 1. shows the main streams of trafficwithin the hospital. These will be
discussed in more detail later.
NURSING UNITS
CutFa .ents Emergency Staff
P at Ienrt s
CIRCULATION
SERVICE
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EXPANSION
It is always difficult to judge the exact pattern of expansion for a hospital.
The different departments of the hospital expand at varying rates. In any case
the hospital must function properly at all times and the expansion should be
orderly and controlled.
Figure. 2. illustrates a suggested system for the orderly growth of the hospi-
tal based upon the requirements of the program.
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STAGE I
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
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FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
1. The Medical and Surgical Nursing Unit.
When.thinking of the nursing unit questions immediately arise as to just what
is the best for the patient, the best for the staff, and the least expensive,
etc. To go from one extreme to another the least expensive solution would be
one large room containing 500 beds, and the best would be 500 single-bedded
rooms with private baths. It is obvious that the first would not work socially
or medically, and the second would be too expensive for a general hospital.
The solution lies somewhere between the extremes.
The large open ward containing 20 to 30 patients (see Figure 3.) is still used
in Europe and in some military hospitals in the United States. The plan used
most often is the Rigs Ward adopted at the Rigs Hospital in Copenhagen in 1910.
In this type of ward 20 to 30 patients are placed in an open room divided by
partitions placed perpendicular to the exterior walls forming cubicles in which
the beds are placed perpendicular to the partitions usually in groups of four
for each cubicle. This plan works very well in so far as nursing care is con-
cerned. The patients can be well supervised and are readily accessible. How-
ever, it is very inflexible in the separation of patients and it i's difficult
to maintain good aseptic techniques.
There have been several hospitals built with all single rooms, one of the first
being the King Daughters' Hospital at Temple, Texas in 1908. The single-bedded
room with private toilet or private bath offers some advantages. The staff has
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maximum flexibility in assigning patients and the patients have freedom in
receiving visitors, lighting, and watching television. It is very doubtful
however, that-this maximum flexibility would even be required in a large hos-
pital and planning for single occupancy results in greater area per patient,
longer traffic routes, and problems of supervision and control. For non-
ambulatory patients it does not provide the often necessary benefits obtained
from the companionship of a roommate. In addition most patients could not
afford the high rate necessary to substain a private room.
A ward containing rooms of varying capacities would seem to best suit both the
patient and the staff. The United States Public Health Service (U.S.P.H.S.)
recommends a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, ratio between one-bed, two-bed and four-bed rooms.
To accept this literally would be a mistake. This might or might not be the
proper ratio for a particular hospital. If the hospital is small the ratio of
single-bedded rooms would be larger to allow the needed flexibility in segrega-
tion and isolation of certain cases. In a larger hospital, containing a maxi-
mum care unit, a contagious unit, and a psychiatric unit, the ratio would
naturally be much smaller. A ratio of 20% one-bed rooms, 60% two-bed rooms and
20% larger rooms would be more realistic for a 500-bed hospital of the type
under consideration in this Thesis.
Conventionally, the nursing floor has been laid out along a single corridor
with the majority of the bedrooms and the ancillary functions on the other
(see Figure 4.). Most of the rooms have good orientation and the plan works
well for small hospitals, but because of the limitation on the number of rooms
imposed by the internal distances, large hospitals often have problems in trying
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to use this plan. The well-known X, Y, H and + configurations are plan forms
developed because of these limitations.
In an attempt to shorten circulation routes several centralized plan forms, with
the ancillary facilities in the core, have developed. (See Figures 5,6.) These
do shorten the distances but in doing so confuse circulation patterns in the
core and make control difficult. Nurses object to the limited visibility from
the nurses' station. At least 25% of the rooms have poor orientation.
The plan adopted for this thesis is a growth of the double pavilion plan first
developed by hospital consultant Charles F. Neegaard. In this plan (See Fig. 7)
all of the services are placed in a central core available to two corridors.
This scheme shortens circulation routes and reserves the desirable peripheral
areas for the patients. Since the ancillary facilities do not double in size
when used by two wards instead of one, a great deal of space is saved which can
be used to more advantage.
In this plan each bedroom is provided with,- or shares with another bedroom,
a room containing a complete bath with shower and bedpan washer, dressing and
locker space, and a supply cabinet. This system is designed to save the nurses'
time and energy. By having everything the nurse needs on hand within the room
she can spend more- time with the patient and less time walking up and down the
corridors emptying bedpans, getting fresh linen, and helping patients to the
central toilet or shower.
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The supply cabinet would be divided into two sections each side accessible
from the corridor and from the bedroom. One side would contain all the clean
and sterile supplies needed for one day, and the other side would be used to
receive soiled supplies from the room. Each night an attendant would place
clean supplies from central cupply in the cabinet to be removed from the
room side as needed. The soiled supplies would be collected in a cart and
returned to central sterilizing or to the laundry (thus doing away with the
questionable laundry chute.) After each use the carts would be cleaned and
made ready for the next day's service.
It might be noted that this nursing unit with the adjoining bathrooms and 252
square feet of area per bed compares favorably with the U.S.P.H.S. nursing unit
which has 267 square feet per bed.
Nurses' station. The nurses' station should be located as centrally as possible
in the nursing unit and should command full view of the nursing corridors. The
nursing station will be used for the administrative work of the nurses inherent
in-patient care, preparing medicines, and for doctor-nurse conferences.
The nurses' station should provide, adequate desk space for the nurses to keep
charts and make out reports. A separate locked room is necessary for storing
and preparing medicines. A small room is desirable for consultation between
staff members, doctors, patients and patients' families.. A space for doctors
to study charts and to dictate instructions is also desirable. A toilet should
be provided for the nurses' use.
Utility Room. The utility room is the general work room for the nursing unit.
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This room would be used for the storage and preparation of equipment and supplies
used in general through out the nursing unit. Facilities would be provided
for the preparation of juices and between-meal snacks for the patients. A
separate area of the utility room would be used for the disposal of waste and
the cleansing of equipment not requiring sterilization in the central sterilizing
room. The utility room should be located adjacent to the nurses' station
Treatment Rooms. Treatment rooms are necessary in every nursing unit. Examina-
tion, surgical dressings and other procedures would be done here instead of in
the bedrooms behind the curtains where there are no facilities. It would often
save the patient from embarrassment and would keep the other patients from being
disturbed. It would also be used for teaching purposes.
Day Room. A day room should be provided for ambulant patients to congregate.
It gives them a chance to chat and provides a change of scene from the bedrooms.
This room should not be confused with the visitors' rooms placed near the ele-
vators.
Storage and Closets. There are a number of smaller rooms and closets needed
within the nursing unit. Janitor's closets, flower rooms, stretcher and wheel
chair storage and general bulk storage must be provided.
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2. The Maternity Nursing Unit.
In general the maternity nursing unit will require the same facilities for the
mothers as are provided in the normal nursing unit. In addition, facilities
must be provided for keeping and caring for the infants.
The "rooming-in" plan in which the infants are kept in the mothers' rooms is
used quite often in Europe and in American military hospitals. There are ad-
vantages in that the normal nursery can be -omitted and provisions made only for
premature and suspect infants. The mother is also more "lemotionally involved"
with the child. There are, however, some disadvantages to the plan. If there
are more than one mother and child in the room, the infants tend to disturb
the other mothers. There are some mothers whofor physiological or psychological
reasons might not be able to, or should not, care for the infant while in the
hospital. Mothers who have other children at home often do not like to care for
the infant in the hospital, but prefer to rest in expectation of the return home
to the other children. Proper examination and utility facilities are not provided.
In the "decentralized nursery" two to six infants, with thin services, are placed
between a pair of rooms containing mothers. This plan has obvious advantages
over the "rooming-in" plan but there are still disadvantages. The utilities
must be duplicated for each nursery. It is hard to maintain supervision, and the
pediatrician must move his equipment from nursery to nursery to check and
examine the infants.
Another plan is the sub-divided central nursery. In this system the nursery is
divided into groups of eight bassinets each, in a separate cubicle. This is
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based on the standard that one nurse should not care for more than eight
infants. Between each nursing room there would be a nurses' station, work
area, and examining area. Constant supervision could be maintained from the
nurses' station.
Suspect nursery. The suspect nursery would be used for observation of
infants suspected of having a communicable disease. From this nursery infants
would either be transferred back to the normal nursery or sent to the pediatrics
unit. The requirements are similar to those of the normal nursery.
Premature Nursery. The premature nursery would hold, until they are strong,
premature infants. Then they would be transferred to the normal nursery or
sent home.
Formula Room. The formula room should be divided into two sections - one
for the receiving and cleansing of bottles -- the other for the preparation and
sterilization of the bottles and formula. Each maternity unit would have its own
formula room.
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3. The Pediatric Nursing Unit.
The Pediatric Unit deals with premature infants through adolescence, which
involves a great variety of medical and surgical conditions. The unit would
contain generally the same facilities as the normal nursing unit with the
additon of the facilities mentioned below.
For infants three nurseries are required, a sick nursery, a premature nursery,
and a suspect nursery. These would be similar in plan and contents to the
nurseries in the maternity unit.
Several crib rooms should be provided for small children. These rooms should
be the same. size as the regular bedrooms to allow for flexibility, also full-size
beds are often required for mothers spending the night with sick children.
A play or activity room is a necessity for the pediatric unit.. This room would
be used as a playroom for younger children, for games, occupational therapy and
school work for older children, and a social room and library for adolescents.
It may also be used for a dining room at meal time. It should be located near
the nurses' station for proper control.
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4. The Psychiatric Unit
The Psychiatric Unit would contain facilities for the treatment of short-term
patients and for holding those patients who must be transferred to a state hos-
pital where accomodations for long-term treatment are more favorable.
This unit will require facilities for the segregation of patients showing dif-
ferent behavior characteristics. These can be divided into four groups; *
Convalescent-30 to 40%; Quiet-30 to 40%; Depressed-20-25% and Disturbed-5 to 10%.
The arrangement should be flexible so that full use of all facilities may be made
at all times, as the patient classifications change during the treatment program.
Day rooms, available for each classification, are required in order that the
many and varied groups and group-activities may be carried on simultaneously for
any or all groups.
There are two main sections of the nrsing unit, an open section and a closed
or locked section. The convalescing and some of the quiet patients will be
housed in the open section. This section can be somewhat similar to a medical
nursing unit. The remainder will be in the locked section. This section will
contain special bedrooms and treatment rooms as recommended by the U.S.P.H.S.
and the American Hospital Association.
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5. The Surgical Suite
The traditional location for the surgical suite has been on the top floor on
the north side. Efficient lighting and mechanical ventilation were not pos-
sible as the suite was located where they could have natural light and be
more or less dust-free. This was also the terminal point of the hospital
and therefore avoided unnecessary circulation.
The advent of good artificial light and air conditioning provides greater
flexibility for the location of the suite. Physical factors such as expansion
and plan form, and circulation factors such as relationship to the nursing
units, radiology, pathology and the emergency department have a more important
bearing on the location.
Operating Rooms. Surgeons and architects usually apply the terms "major" and
'ainor" both to surgical procedures and the operating rooms in which they are
performed. The terms have no precise meaning. Some authorities c'onsidered the
difference to be one of sizeothers consider it to be one of equipment included.
When the advantages and disadvantages of a minor operating room are studied, there
is a considerable question as to the need of a minor operating room at all.
Surgeons whose operations are scheduled for minor operating rooms, often consider
it an affront to their dignity. A minor operating room is less expensive to
build because of its smaller size but the restricted number of surgical procedures
which can be performed may prove it to be false economy. The greater flexibility
of the major operating room can be obtained relatively cheaply since the increase
in cost is not proportional and the equipment and services must be provided in any
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case. There is also the risk that further changes in surgical treatment and
procedure may make the minor operating room obsolete.
The major operating rooms were formerly designed on t1e pattern of the classical
Greek Theater with rising tiers of curved seating but in recent years the
rectangular or square room has superceded the circle. Duritg the past twenty
years, operating rooms of many sizes and shapes have been designed to cater to
difficult arrangements for accomodating observers, lighting, ventilation, etc.
Perhaps the most distinctive is the egg-shaped operating room now in use in
Europe 8. that was developed from the sperical designs by Walter in the 1930's.
The spherical wall-ceiling with individual spotlights sunk in the whole surface,
is an attempt to provide high-density, shadowless illumination on the sterile
field, and to eliminate dust catching surfaces oVerhead. Problems such as ex-
cess -heat, changing lamps from inside the operating room and dust-catching sur-
faces have been solved in this design but it is doubtful that the illumination
of the sterile field is as good as that obtained with a good suspended lamp.
Some surgeons say that the lighting is inadequate for deep cavities and that
supplementary lighting is needed. Supplementary lighting is also required if two
fields are to be lighted simultaneously (example, skin-graft). The table must
be moved to alter the illuminated field on the patients' body. Other problems
inherent in the egg-shaped design are: the difficulty of providing overhead
booms for supporting oxygen and anesthesia lines, television cameras, etc., the
excessive noise due to the poor acoustic shape and hard surfaces of the room,
and the lack of flexibility in usage imposed by the plan.
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On the basis of the actual function of the room it is difficult to estimate
the exact size of a major operating room because procedures and equipment
vary for different operations and for different surgeons. Studies show that
a minimum size 16 ft. by 16 ft. is required, but many surgeons and surgical
supervisors recommend 20 ft. by 20 ft. of free floor space.
The rapid development of cardiac and neuro-surgery has created the need for
one or more extra large operating rooms. This type of surgery calls for a
larger team of surgeons (at times, two teams are required, example - kidney
transplants), and a great deal of additional equipment such as heart-lung
machines, hypothermia equipment, etc., also electronic monitoring equipment
which frequently is not explosion-proof. The system in which a control room
is placed between two large operating roorrworks very well. This control room
would also house equipment required for closed circuit television.
- There are several methods of providing observation for operations. The
generally prefered method is for a small group of observers to actually be in
the operating room. This system provides obvious teaching advantages, but the
group is limited in size and there is the possibility of additional bacteria and
of distraction for the surgeons. Another method is to locate a gallery to one
side or over the operating room. This isolates the observers but the possibility
of an unobstructed view of the sterile field which is adequate for teaching pur-
poses is slight. It does, however, allow medical students and nurses to observe
operating room procedures. The use of closed circuit television and motion pic-
tures allows larger groups to observe. It seems that not one, but a combination
of methods are needed for adequate observation in all cases.
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In 1846 the first public demonstration of anesthesia was performed at the
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 1873 the first induction room
adjoining the operating room was used. "The patients are etherized in a small
ante-room adjoining the operating theater and when anesthesia is complete, the
patient is picked up and carried in the arms of a stout attendant into the
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theater." Since that time there has been a great deal of controversy over
where induction should take place.
Induction rooms are not used to any extent in the United States and most hos-
pitals which have induction rooms use them for other uses. Neither the U.S.P.H.S.,
the American College of Surgeons, or the American Society of Anestheologists
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recommends induction rooms. The National Fire Protection Association re-
commends not using them because of the danger of an explosion. Proponents argue
that time is saved between operations and that it is psychologically better for
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the patient, but recent study shows the time saved to be slight. More anes-
thetists are required, and the psychological effect has not been proved one way
or the other.
Ancillary Facilities.
Recovery Room. The purpose of the recovery room is to hold the patient during
the critical period from the end of the operation to the regaining of conscious-
ness. It provides a high standard of nursing care during the recovery period and
prompt attention in an emergency. Isolation curtains are not required because
patients are removed as soon as they are fully conscious and the curtains make
the nurses' work harder. However, there should be an isolation room for infec-
tious cases.
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All services should be within the room but should be enclosed with a glazed
partition to reduce noise.
Scrub-up rooms. The scrub-up area is used for scrubbing by the surgical
team before each operation. This room should be located adjacent to the
operating room to reduce walking distance after scrubbing and to allow the
surgeons to see into the operating room while scrubbing.
Clean-up and Sub-sterilizing rooms. The central clean-up room provides.
facilities for cleaning up after the operation. The extent of the facilities*
required is based upon the system used.
If decentralized sterilzing is used (all possible items sterilized in the sub-
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sterilizing room) there would be little or no work to be done other than the
cleaning of sensitive instruments, and the collection of disposable items and
items issued from other departments.
If a sub-sterilizing room is not used then the clean-up room must handle all
sterilizing in addition to the normal collection and disposal of items. This
system aggravates the problem of contamination transfer for all "clead' and
"dirty" supplies are processed in the same area.
Although there is a chance of contamination when using sub-steilizing rooms,
it seems to be the medically superior system.
Frozen Section Laboratory. In the course of an operation it might be necessary
for a microscopic examinatbn to be made of the tissue removed from a patient.
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This examination must be made before the operation can continue. For this
reason a small frozen section lab is includedvithin the suite. The probability
of an examination being needed can usually be predicted before the operation
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(10 to 15% of all operations), and the laboratory would only be staffed when
such an operation was scheduled.
Change Rooms. All personnel who work in the surgical suite change their clothing
before they enter the suite. Change rooms should be provided for professional
males, all females, and non-professional males. Each change room would contain
locker, toilet and shower facilities. The personnel would enter the change
rooms from outside the suite, change shoes and clothes, and enter the suite
directly from the change room. The reverse procedure would be used in leaving
the suite.
Lounge. A small lounge should be included for doctors and nurses for coffee,
rest and a "change of view".
Classrooms. Classroom space should be provided for instructing nurses and interns
and for staff conferences and lectures. This would also provide a place for
viewing operations on television and motion pictures. Entrande to the rooms
should be from outside of the surgical suite.
Offices. Offices are needed for the surgical supervisor, the clerks who manage
scheduling and paperwork, the clinical instructor and possibly the chief of staff
and the chief anesthesiologist.
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Storage. There are a multitude of storage areas required. Space must be pro-
vided for clean instruments, medical gases, janitors' supplies, sterile supplies,
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spare operating tables and lights, anesthesia machines and other miscelaneous
equipment and supplies.
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6. Obstetrical Suite
In general the obstetrical suite requires somewhat the same facilities as the
operating suite. In addition labor rooms and a small nurses' station are
necessary. Provisions should be made to allow the husband to accompany his
wife into the labor room if the doctor allows this procedure.
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7. Emergency Department.
As mentioned previously most emergency cases are cases best admitted away from
the public view. The department should also be readily accessible for both
ambulances and private automobiles which require parking space. A large number
of emergency cases are accident cases in which the patient is pronounced dead
on arrival or shortly after arrival at the hospital. Location near the morgue
would provide holding space until the family could be notified and the body
picked up by a mortician. It would also facilitate the procedure on cases re-
quiring autopsy and laboratory work.
Operating Room. In many hospitals a major operating room is included in the
emergency department. This idea is wrong. for it is unwise to attempt a serious
operation in the emergency department which is not equippad nor fully staffed for
such operations, when well-equippe. and staffed operating rooms are available near
by. By performing all serious operations in the surgical suite unnecessary dup-
lication of facilities is avoided. However, there should be a mirror operating
and fracture-reducing room included with proper x-ray and fluorscopic facilities.
Nursing Unit. A small nursing unit is necessary for overnight patients. The
next morning the patient would either be discharged or admitted to a normal
nursing unit. An isolation room for suspect cases would be desirable, especially
for children.
Treatment rooms. Rooms for examination and treatment should include dressing
booths to prevent unnecessary delay in the use of the room and a utility room
which could be common to all.
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Other Facilities. The office should be located to provide good control over
the entrance to the department. It would be used for reception and administration.
procedures. The waiting area should be adjacent to the office for control
purposes..
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8. X-Ray and Radiation Therapy.
The X-Ray Department works in close relationshipvith several other departments
in the hospital. Both inpatien-ts and outpatients will use the department and
care should be taken so that traffic paiterns do not mix. There is also a
close relationship between the x-ray department and the surgical unit.
Traffic is generated by certain radiological procedures in the operating rooms
and if a daik room is not provided within the surgical suite, then the exposed
film must be transported to the x-ray department for processing. This system
eliminates the duplication of costly equipment and keeps all photographic pro-
cedures under a central control.
Diagnostic X-Ray. The x-ray rooms are equipped with combination x-ray and
a
fluorscopic'machines. The U.S.R.H.S. recommends a room 12' x 18' x 9'-6' which
seems to serve very well. A control booth is necessary in the room to protect
the operator from harnfd. rays during the x-ray procedure. This need not be a
room but merely a shield to deflect the rays. In fluorscopy the booth isn't
necessary. The room must be shielded against the escape of harmful rays, the
amount of shielding required varies with the exact functions of the room. Each
x-ray room should have at least two dressing rooms so that the equipment and
staff can function without delay. A barium "kitchen" is required and of course
a water closet as barium travels quite rapidly through the system.
Therapy. Only basic x-ray therapy and radioisotope facilities should be in-
cluded as the mae complicated cases would be sent to the base hospital where
more extensive equipment is located. The inclusion of one deep therapy and one
superficial therapy room would be necessary. These rooms should be located to
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either side of a control room containing dressing booths, control rooms,
recovery room and toilet. The radioisotope room would include a radio-
chemistry laboratory and a patient uptake measuring room with adjoining
dressing room. These therapy rooms hould be separated from the diagnostic
rooms.
Cystoscopy. The cystoscopy rooms can be located in several departments within
the hospital. The surgical suite and the x-ray department are the most suitable
for the procedures performed. Location in the surgical suite is convenient for
the anesthesiologist for cases requirig general anesthesia and the recovery
room is readily available. The main disadvantages of this location is that
outpatients would be required to enter the surgical suite and many surgeons
object to cystoscopy procedures which are "dirty" cases being performed within
the surgical suite because of the danger of contamination. A location in the
x-ray department would place the cystoscopy rooms near the darkroom and other
radiological facilities and would prevent costly duplication of equipment as
previously mentioned.
Photographic Rooms. All exposed film would be taken to the darkroom for processing.
Automatic film processing machines have done away with most hand-processing and re-
duced the space required. The entrance into the darkroom should either be
through a light lock or light maze.
The viewing room should be located adjacent to the darkroom to facilitate the
viewing of film as soon as possible after processing. The room shold be large
enough to accommodate several groups while viewing the film.
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Since the film file has a direct relationship to both the darkroom and the
viewing room it should be located so that it is convenient to both.
Other Facilities. Waiting space for patients, office space for administrative
personnel, and storage equipment for bulk equipment and supplies must be in-
cluded, with sizes dependant upon organization and procedures used.
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9. Laboratory.
The laboratory would conduct between 180,000 and 200,000 tests annually for
the hospital and the outpatiett department. These tests would be divided
among six units of the' laboratory; he/matology, urinalysis; biochemistry;
histology; serology and bacteriology. With the exception of the serology -
bacteriology unit the functions of the units may be grouped together to
facilitate supervision, common use of equipment and flexible use of personnel.
The Ser/ology - Bacteriology unit should be enclosed to reduce the possibility
of contamination.
Pathologist office. The pathologist office should be located so that he has'
access to the laboratory, the histology section in particular. A work space
should be provided for examinations in the privacy of his office.
Other Facilities. A reception room and waiting area, collection rooms, utility
rooms, and a "quiet" room for basal metabolism and electrocardiography should
also be included.
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10. Necropsy Department.
The morgue and autopsy T~dlities should be located to prevent unnecessary contact
with the public. The department must be convenient to the elevators from the
nursing units, the surgical suite and the emergency department, and should have an
exit to the service yard to facilitate pick-up by morticians.
Office. The department office should be located at the entrance for control.
This office would handle receiving and administrative work.
Viewing Room. Located at the entrance to the department adjacent to the morgue
should be a viewing room used for identification purposes.
Morgue. The morgue should be located to provide optimum circulation between the
refrigerated boxes, the entrance, the autopsy rooms and the exit. There should
be between 10-15 boxes depending upon the practices of the local morticians.
Lockers. Locker space and shower and toilet facilities must be provided for the
staff members working in the department.
Teaching Facilities. A small classroom and museum should be included to facilitate
the teaching of nurses and interns . The autopsy rooms should be large enough to-
accomodate a group of observers.
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11. Administrative Department
Lobby and waiting space. The main lobby and waiting room should be located
with convenient access to the stairs, corridors and elevators leading to the
administrative and patient areas, but access to these areas should be controlled
by the information desk. In public general hospitals the number of visitors is
quite high and adequate waiting space should be provided for the family and
friends of the patients.
Admitting Office. The admitting -office should be readily accessible from the
entrance lobby but in a quiet area where privacy can be obtained. Several
booths o'r rooms are necessary for the admitting procedure and social service
functions. Easy access to the medical record room should be provided for ob-
taining records of returning patients.
Medical records and Library. The medical record room and library are directly
related regarding study and research, and can be better managed by a single
librarian. It should be remembered that the library will be used not only by
the staff and interns but also by a certain number of people from outside the
hospital.
Business Office. The general business office should have several cashiers'
windows near the main lobby but there should be no direct entry into the office
from that area. This office provides space for the clerical staff and equip-
ment and should have a safe or vault fro records and patients' valuables.
Offices. General office space will be required by the hospital administrator,
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the director of nursing, the assistant director of nursing, the bursar and
their various secretaries. An office should also be provided for the use of
visitirig clergy.
Conference Room. A conference room should be included for directors' meetings
and small conferences.
Auditorium. A small auditorium is necessary for staff meetings and for health
education in the outpatient department.
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12. Dietary Facilities.
The kitchen should be located at grade level to insure adequate light and
ventilation and ease cf daily delivery of meat, vegetables, and dairy products.
If located adjacent to the service court deliveries can be made directly into
the refrigerator section preventing carting of supplies through corridors and
food preparation areas. There should be no circulation through the kitchen
to other areas.
Central Tray Service. There are three general types of food service to the
nursing units. With "central tray service" each tray is completely prepared
in the kitchen and then transported to the nursing units on heated trucks.
After the meal the dirty dishes and trays are collected and returned to the
kitchen to be washed in the central dishwashing room. The most serious com-
plaint against this method is that the food may become dried out, cold and
unpalatable by the time-it reaches the patient. There is also a certain amount
of waste for the patient has no control over food portions.
Bulk Service. The "bulk service" system utilizes heated carts which are
loaded in bulk in the main kitchen and transported to the nursing unit pantry.
Here the trays are prepared and distributed to the patients. Upon completion
of the meal the dishes and trays are returned to the floor pantry where they are
washed and stored until the next meal. In this system serving hot food is less
of a problem but the patient still has no control over the portion. It is ne-
cessary to have a very complete kitchen and dishwashing room on each floor, it
requires personnel additions for efficient service and adds to the size of the
confusion of the nursing unit.
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A variationof the bulk food service is sometimes used in which the trays
are prepared in the pantry with the exception of the food, and distributed to
the patients. The bulk food cart moves from the main kitchen and the food
is served to the patients. The patient is assured of hot food and the amount
he desires, but the floor must still have a dishwashing room and pantry as
above.
Centralized Bulk Service. The third and possibly the best method is the "cen-
tralized bulk food service". In this system, the trays are set up in the main
kitchen and distributed to the nursing unit followed by the bulk food cart. The
trays are served and at the end cf the meal the dirty trays and dishes are re-
turned to the main kitchen for washing. Hot food in the desired proportions.
is assured. The costly duplication of dishwashing equipment is eliminated and
the pantry can be reduced to a size needed only for between meal snacks and juices.
Refrigeration.~ As mentioned previously direct delivery of perishables to re-
frigerators without going through the food.preparation areas is highly desirable.
The refrigerator section shouldcontain three units, one for meat, one for fruit
and vegetables, and one for dairy products. Because of the rising popularity of
frozen foods, a large freezer should also be included for frozen meat, vegetableg
and ice cream, etc.
Day Storage. Provision of a day storage room for non-perishable supplies for a
twenty-four hour period will be necessary. The day storage takes care of small
food items and part cases of foodnot requiring refrigeration. The room should
be convenient to the receiving area and adjacent to the meat, vegetable and salad
preparation areas.
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Cooking Section. The main cooking section should be placed in a central loca-
tion convenient to the serving area and away from the side walls.
Diet Kitchen. A special diet kitchen is not necessary. The, number of diets
other than normal, soft, and liquid will not exceed 15o of the total number of
meals
patient/and these can be prepared in the main kitchen. Student nurses would
be trained in the diet department of the nursing school and not in the hos-
pital kitchen.
Dish and Cart Washing. The dishwashing room should be -located near the en-
trance to the kitchen from the nursing units. The food carts should be washed
in a separate room. The cart room should be near the entrance and convenient
to the dishwashing area.
Dietitian. The dietitian's office shodd be located to provide good control and
supervision of the entire kitchen.
Toilets. Toilets should be readily accessible but not within the kitchen
proper.
Dining Space. The dining room should be large enough to accomodate the staff
and visitors using it in a two-hour period. Cafeteria service is the fastest and
most economical for this type of institution. A small private dining space should
be provided for special luncheons, business meetings, etc. A dining room should
also be provided for the kitchen employees.
13. Housekeeping Facilities.
Housekeeper. The housekeeper's office should be adjacent to the central
linen room and in a position to maintain control over the linenboth clean
and dirty.
Central Linen Room. The central linen room would be used to store and issue
linen for the hosiital. The should be a mending room and a new stock room
within the central linen room.
Soiled Linen Room. The soiled linen room would be used to receive, sort and
prepare for washing,the dirty linen of the hospital. Because of the type of
service to the nursing units there would be no linen, chutes.
Laundry. The laundry would wash and decontaminate the dirty linen and then
dry and prepare it for re-use.
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14. Supply, Storage and Maintenance.
Sterile supplies. All supplies requiring sterilization would be sterilized and
pre-packaged in the central sterilizing room and distributed through central
supply.
Central Supply. All supplies. except pharmaceuticals would be distributed
through central supply. For this reason it should be located centrally with
easy access to the different storage rooms.
Central Storage. The central storage area would be divided into several areas;
the furniture room, anesthesia storage, social service, clothing and food stores.
Anesthesia and Oxygen. The anesthesia and oxygen storage rooms should be lo-
cated near the entrance to the service area. This provides easy access in case
of fire and saves carrying heavy tanks into the building. The oxygen would be
piped to the areas needing it from this storage room.
Receiving. There should be a receiving room where goods could be unpacked and
checked before they are taken into the storage rooms. A small.room for overnight
storage of goods received,but not checkedis necessary.
Maintenance Shops. To facilitate quick and economical repairs and replacements
the hospital should have good maintenance shops. A carpenter shop for general
repairs and refinishing work, an electrical shop for repairing small motors, lamps
and other fixtures, and a mechanical shop with equipment for heating and plumbing
repairs would be provided.
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15. Lockers and Lounges.
It is undesirable for either professional or non-professional help to go through
the hospital in street clothes. For this reason lockers should be provided for
employees and staff at the entrances. The locker rooms should contain -
locker, toilet and shower facilities. Lounges should be provided for off-duty
personnel.
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16. Outpatient Department.
The functions of the outpatient department are education, prevention, diagnosis,
and treatment of illness, and follow-up of hosp'ital cases. It is very diffi-
cult to plan just how large or small an outpatient department should be for
an estimated number of visits per year. The number of divisions, the number
of stations, the number of sessions, and their length, etc. all must be con-
sidered.
If sessions were held eleven times a week,, one each morning, one each after-
noon and one on Saturday morning, and each session is three hours long, 9 - 12,
and 1 - 4, then theoretically only six stations would be required to handle the
estimated 40,000 visits a year, to the department. However this figure does not
allow for the fact that there are some stations stited to only one purpose, some
facilities are used jointly by the hospital and the outpatient departnent, and
there are slack and rush periods and there is no expansion within the department.
There are about twenty clinical divisons within the outpatient department.
As mentioned before some of these are jointly used by the hospital and the de-
partment (laboratory, x-ray, pysiotherapy), and others are only suited for one
particular function (dentistry, minor surgery, eye, ear, nose and throat). The
remainder overlap and can all use a somewhat similar room. The divisons by not
being rigid allow a certain flexibility in the ebb and flow of traffic.
Examination treatment room. These multi-purpose rooms should have adjoining
dressing rooms to insure continuous use and should be adjacent to a utility room
which could be used jointly by several rooms.
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Minor Surgery. In the surgical divison only surgical procedures of a minor
nature would be performed. The utilities would be within the room but a small
recovery room would be necessary.
Dentistry. The dentistry divid.on should have at least two chairs, a small
labpratory and a recovery room.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. This division should have an eye examination and
treatment room, a "dark" room (not photographic), and a room equipped for ear,
nose and throat examinations.
Administration. The information and appointment desk should be located at the
entrance to control the circulation in and out of the department. The cashiers'
desk might be adjoining so that in slack hours one person could operate both
positions. An adjacent office is necessary for the department supervision.
Although there is a certain relationship between the hospital administration and
the outpatient administration the two should be separate functions with separate
entrances and lobbies.
Records. The records room should be readily accessible to both the administra-
tion and themedical staff. A conference room should be incorporated to provide
space for studying records and staff conferences.
Waiting Space. The waiting space should be spacious and comfortable with toilets
nearby. If possible the pediatric waiting should be separated from thenormal
waiting areas to help those patients who might be nervous and easily upset.
Pharmacy. The pharmacy should be located at the exit from the department
but before the cashiers' desk. All prescriptions for the department could be
obtained here and this would be an entirely separate function from the hospital
pharmacy.
REFERENCES
(Footnotes)
1. U.S. Public Health Service. Design and Construction of General
Hospitals, pp. 2-3.
2. Emerson Goble, "Hospital Planning Starts with Circulation", Hospitals
Clinics,and Health Centers, p. 2.
3. U.S. Public Health Service. Design and Construction of General Hos-
pitals, p. 47.
4-. Ibid, pp. 130-131.
5. Euclid - Glenville Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio: Conrad, Hays, Simpson,
and Ruth.
6. Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Los Angeles, California: Pereira and
Luckman.
7. U.S.P.H.S. Design and Construction of General Hospitals, p. 58.
8. Memorial Hospital, St. LoFrance: Paul Nelson.
9. Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust. Studies in tIe Functions and Design
of Hospitals, p. 68.
10. Warwick Smith. - Planning the Surgical Suite, p. 225.
11. Ibid, p. 226.
12. Ibid, p. 304.
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SPACE REQUIREMENTS
Nursing Units
Bed Area (includes rooms - 48 - lockers and baths) 6300
Day Area 400
Treatment Rooms (2) 288
Nurses' Station
Utility Room
350
Soiled Utility
150
Floor Pantry
100
Storage and Closet Space
300
Visitors
6oo
Surgical and Obstetrical Suites
Major Operating Room (8)
3200
Special Operating Rooms (2)
1100
Control Room
350
Viewing Rooms (2)
350
Scrub-up Rooms (5)
500
Sub-Sterilizing Rooms (5)
6oo
Clean-up Rooms (5)
100
Instruments
100
Medical gases
100
Bulk Storage
300
Frozen Section Laboratory
100
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Recover Room
1500
Isolation Room
150
Classrooms (2)
1200
Seminar
120
Emergency
400
Lockers (professional males)
360
Lockers (non-professional males)
360
Lockers (females)
400
Lounge
200
Linen
50
Surgical Supervisor
120
Clerks
200
Chief of Staff>
120
Anesthesiologist
120
Delivery Rooms (4)
1600
Scrub-up Rooms (2)
200
Sub-Sterilizing Rooms (2)
240
Labor Rooms (8)
960
Nursing Rooms
100
Emergency
Receiving
150
Admitting Office
150
Waiting Room
250
Minor Operating -Room
250
Treatment Rooms (4)
400
Utility Room
250
Isolation Rooms (2) 340
Nurses' Station
100
Male Ward
260
Female Ward
260
Toilets and Baths
250
X-Ray and Radiation Therapy
Radiology and Fluorscopy Rooms (5)
1400
Cystoscopic Rooms (2)
580
Recovery Rooms and Toilets
200
Deep Therapy
380
Superficial Therapy
380
Control Rooms
100
Recovery Room
150
Radioisotope
280
Preparation Room
100
Fracture-reducing Room
280
Office space (3)
420
Waiting Space
500
Dark Room
280
Film File
480-
Viewing Room
280
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Laboratory
General Laboratory 2000
Office
150
Toilets
150
Utility Room
120
Reception
50
Waiting Room
100
Collection Rooms (6)
300
Pathologist
150
Storage
150
Necropsy
Autopsy Rooms (3)
1000
Storage
100
Laboratory
200
Morgue
320
Viewing Room:
150
Mechanical Room
100
Lockers
200
Museum
380
Classroom
280
Office
200
Pharmacy
Compound and Dispensing Laboratory
1000
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Parental Solution Laboratory 300
Activity Store Room 400
Manufacturing Laboratory 200
Office and Library
150
Physical Therapy
Exercises and Pool
1300
Hydrotherapy
380
Electrotherapy 280
Office
150
Waiting Room
200
Lockers and Toilets
160
Administration
Main Lobby and Waiting Room 1600
Retiring Room
380
Public Telephones (10)
Public Toilets
580
Gift Shop
6oo
Snack Bar
6oo
Chapel
300
Information and Telephone
100
Admissions and Social Service
200
Business Office
580
Records
900
Library and Conference
580
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Hospital Administrator 200
Director of Nursing 200
Ass't. Director of Nursing 200
Secretaries 200
Misc. Office Space 400
Conference Room 200
Toilets
150
Dietary Facilities
Main Kitchen (includes bake shop, meat, vegetable and salad
preparation)
5000
Refrigeration and Freezing
350
Dry Storage
350
Receiving 400
Dietitian's Office 200
Dishwashing Room 600
Cart Washing and Storage 800
Serving 600
Dining Room
2500
Private Dining Room 600
Employee Dining
300
Housekeeping Facilities.
Central Linen Room
800
Housekeepex
150
Soiled Linen
400
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Laundry
4000
Locker Facilities
Nurses' Locker Room and Lounge 1200
Doctors' Lounge 400
Male Lockers
1000
Female Lockers
1000
Lounge 800
Stores
Central Stores
6ooo
Central Sterilizing
800
Distribution
300
Maintenance
Department Office
- 150
Mechanical Shop
350
Electrical Shop
200
Carpenter Shop
350
Re ffibrg Shop
300
General Storage
400
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Medical Practice Units. Sears Roebuck Foundation, 1956.
"Architectural Record." Hospitals, Clinics, and Health Centers.
F.W. Dodge Corporation, New York, 1960.
Biderman, Benjamin Harris. A Two Hundred Bed General Hospital and
Outpatient Clinic for Grand Prairie and Irving Texas. Architectural
Thesis, M.I.T., 1955.
Birch-Lindgun, Gustof. Modern Hospital Planning in Sweden and Other
Countries. Architectural Book Publishing Company., New York.
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February, 1961.
Butler, Charles. Erdman, Addison. Hospital Planning. F.W. Dodge
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Goldstein, Mar. "Thesis, Department of Architecture, Yale University."
Progressive Architecture, October, 1959.
"Hospital in the Round", Architectural Forum, September, 1958.
Kirchner, Martin. "Fellowship Thesis, Department of Architecture,
Yale University", Paul Nelson, Advisor. Progressive Architecture,
October,
1959.
Levine, Robert H. "Proposal for the Future". Progressive Architecture,
July 1960.
Nelson, Paul. Cite Hospitaliere de Lille. Editions, Cahiers D'art,
Paris, 1941.
Nelson, Paul. "Memorial Hospital St. Lo, France." Progressive Archi-
tecture, October, 1957.
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Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust. Studies in the Functions and
Design of Hospitals. Oxford University Press, Londa 1955.
Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Wel-
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Corporation, New York, 1953.
U.S.P.H.S. "Planning the Laboratory for the General Hospital."
Architectural Record, February, 1961.
Rosenfield, Isadore. Hospitals - Integrated Design.
Reinhold Publishing Company, New York, 1950.
Second Edition.
Smith, Warwick. Planning the Surgical Suite. F.W. Dodge Corporation,
New York, 1960.
"U.S. Designs for Hospitals Abroad". Progressive Architecture,
February, 1960.
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THIRD ANNUAL COMPETITION - MASTIC TILE DIVISION - THE RUBEROID COMPANY
The health and hospital facilities of the parent city have been extended
and developed to a point of congestion and the regional hospital council
has recomiended that future efforts be directed to developing a COORDINATED
HOSPITAL SYSTEM on the general framwork formulated by the United States Public
Health Service, in which medical care facilities are proposed as follows:
Community Clinic
Rural Hospital
District Hosnital
Base Hospital
The community's growth indicates a population of from 75,000 to 100,000 within
a normal automobile radius of 20 minutes, and it has been decided that the Com-
munity Clinic should be consolidated with the Rural Hospital to form a Suburban
General Hospital of 200.beds.
It is further proposed that the Surburban General Hospital be planned for inte-
grated expansion in successive steps toward full completion over a 15-year period
as a District Hospital with full complement of specialty services and a teaching
program for nurses, internes and residents.
The regional hospital council has drawn attention to the following medical trends
in patient care and has requested that consideration thereto be given in the
planning study:
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1. An Out Patient Department geared to a minimum of 40,000
clinic visits per annum with provision for flexible expansion as the
Hospital grows.
2. Many doctors have found it advantageous to have private offices
within the Hospital complex, where availability of complete diag-
nostic-treatment facilities are at their command. It has been agreed
that the planning program should include 30 offices for private
practitioners.
3. Treatment of patients on a full bed, semi-ambulatory or full
ambulatory basis.
It is the purpose of this Competition to explore the experience of the architec-
tural profession in solving this Hospital problem of growing medical needs within
a cost range which can be supported by the community.
The following tables are given merely as a general statement rather than as a
limiting or limited program. Awards will be based on the greatest contribution
in medical planning including feasibility for change as medical advances are made,
architectural quality of physical expression, and feasiblity of construction within
reasonable economic range.
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL
20 beds
DISTRICT HOSPITAL
500 beds
BASE HOSPITAL
Already provided in parent
city.
Major Surgery
Internal Medecine
Obstetrics
Pediatrics
Laboratory
Pathology
Bacteriology
Chemistry
Radiolcgy
Diagnostic
Treatment
Major Surgery
Obstetrics
Pediatrics
Internal Medecine
Communicable Diseases
Tuberculosis
Venereal Disease
Other
Psychiatric Service
Radiology
Diagnostic
Treatment
Physiotherapy
Dentistry-
Eye, Ear,
Nose,
and Throat
Dietetics
Teaching
Nurses
Internes
Residents
Post Graduates
Heart Clinic Cancer Clinic
Major Surgery Psychiatric Serv
Internal Medecine Laboratory
Obstetrics
Pathology
Bacteriology
Pediatrics
Chemistry
Orthopedic Surgery Radiology
Communicable Diseases Diagnostic
Tuberculosis Treatment
Venereal Disease Psyiotherapy
Other Teaching
Nurses
Eye,Ear, Nose, Internes
Throat Residents
Dietetics
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The expansion program shall be
gested distribution of beds as
Service
Normal Medical-Surgical
Intensive Care
Minimal Care
Obstetrics
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
arranged for a three-stage growth, with sug-
follows:
Stage I
115
20
40
25
Stage II
125
20
40
70
45
Stage III
165
40
60
90
70
75
200
300 500
TOTAL BEDS
A 500 BED
GENERAL
HOSPITAL
A 500 BED GENERAL HOSPITAL
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