... The findings show that façade orientation has a direct impact on Daylight Factor and illuminance balance, underscoring the importance of room-specific lighting strategies in health-care facilities advocate for a shift away from uniform lighting standards and toward more context-responsive lighting design...

...Sinan Terzioğlu; Sarel Lavy Purpose The purpose of this case study is to evaluate the provision of health-care facility management (FM) services within the scope of a private company in Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, an integrated health-care facility. Specifically, this study analyzes...

... services are changing at a fast pace; however, the hospital estate is not changing quickly enough to accommodate these changes, which may require it to become more dispersed and integrated with the community health-care estate. While weaker approaches to planning were reported as a barrier, long-term...

...Steven Call Purpose The aim of this study is to understand health-care facilities’ practice of deferring maintenance and to identify the relationship between deferred maintenance and hospital profitability. Design/methodology/approach Financial statements from hospitals in Washington State...

...Hassan Th. Alassafi; Khalid S. Al-Gahtani; Abdulmohsen S. Almohsen; Abdullah M. Alsugair Purpose Heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and cooling (HVAC) systems are crucial in daily health-care facility services. Design-related defects can lead to maintenance issues, causing service disruptions...

...Oti Amankwah; Weng Wai Choong; Naana Amakie Boakye-Agyeman; Ebenezer Afrane Purpose Patient-centred strategies should be applied in health-care facilities management (HcFM) to guarantee service quality to meet patients’ needs and ensure quality patient health-care experience. This paper aims...

...Nur Aqlima Ramli; Emma Marinie Ahmad Zawawi; Nor Rima Muhamad Ariff; Nurul Nadiah Zainol Purpose This study aims to identify and validate the environmental cleaning elements and performance criteria to prevent Covid-19 infection in health-care facilities. Design/methodology/approach Eight...

... vary, making it problematic to assume that these benchmarks are appropriate for the VHA’s unique facility conditions. Originality/value The findings can be used as a point of reference by VHA and other health-care systems for implementing staff modeling for the built environment workforce...

... buildings. Stage 2 – Focus group meeting (1st): Deliberate on the usefulness of the indicators identified in Stage 1 and shortlist the essential indicators for real-world applications. Stage 3 – Questionnaire survey: Solicit the opinions of practitioners in the health-care FM community for finalising...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 17 02 2017 17 03 2017 07 04 2017 Jori Reijula can be contacted at: jori.reijula@gmail.com Health care Environment Employees Hospital management Hospitals Work design...

...Abimbola Olukemi Windapo; Astrette Cloete Purpose This paper aims to examine briefing practices and whether these are related to the quality of brief documents and client satisfaction in constructed health-care facilities in South Africa. The rational for the examination stems from the view held...

... overall performance of these facilities. It is desirable that hospital planners in modern health-care systems give adequate importance to finer aspects of OT designing. A pilot study was conducted to determine the sample size for the ANOVA design and the validity of the research instrument. The common...

... Research Design Hospitals Health care Facility layout A nursing unit can be defined as an area in a hospital or other health-care delivery setting where patients with similar needs are grouped together to facilitate the delivery of care by health-care professionals. The layout of a nursing unit...

... of the limitations of this study. Practical implications – The Ministry of Health (MoH) can utilize the results of this study and consider it as benchmarking for maintenance management in public hospital buildings. This can improve the current maintenance situation which ultimately will improve the health-care...

..., suggesting the paradigm needs to be better developed and nuanced for mental healthcare facilities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United Kingdom France Health care Mental illness Adults Mental health services Facilities Mental healthcare facilities Design Accessibility Universal...

.... complaint received regarding building performance; 4. clients request; 5. availability of funding; and 6. safety and health requirements. The dominant factors that are used to assess the performance health care facilities include the ratio of value/variable such as costs (e.g. kWh...

... finance and economics, business transfer, and facilities transmitted. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Facilities management Risk management National Health Service Health care In managing healthcare facilities in the National Health Service (NHS), service providers and purchasers face many...

...William Rodney; Paul Gallimore This paper identifies that the methods used to quantify the financial risk of appraisals of private sector projects for primary health care development have been inadequate. Data was collected and analysed from private developers on 18 schemes, varying by scale...

... that facilities management partnering arrangements can secure added value to the healthcare sector and therefore enhance service quality and improve the corporate image. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Value Facilities management Health care Innovation Partnering Due to the re‐configuration...

... management function on community health‐care facility users is also documented. The value of the facilities management function in terms of other health‐care related organisational core deliverables is also observed. Mechanisms for general organisational facilities management improvement are identified...