... 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...

..., distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence maybe seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. Backcasting Health care...

...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...

...: service, functional, physical and financial. Upon completion of a literature review, Fronczek-Munter (2013) proposed the Evaluation Focus Flower model for the selection of health-care facilities evaluation methods. Stage 1 – Literature review: Identify and classify performance indicators...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Health care Environment Employees Hospital management Hospitals Work design The work environment has a remarkable effect on work flow and the well-being of employees (Feige et al., 2013 ; Clements-Croome, 2011 ; Bluyssen, 2014...

...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...

... for integrative review developed based on research orientations. 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...

... 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. The results drawn by this study are comparable with the outcomes of other studies on staff satisfaction with respect to OT design...

... 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...

... and Carlier, 1995 ; Verdoux, 2007). They varied in terms of models of care and management, therapeutic functions, and building typology. United Kingdom France Health care Mental illness Adults Mental health services Facilities Mental healthcare facilities Design Accessibility Universal design...

... Group Publishing Limited 2012 Operation and maintenance costs Hospitals Medical activities Hospital beds Medical facilities Health care After salary and wages, facility and real estate expenditure are the largest cost items for a company and any improvement of cost effectiveness...

...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...

... 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...

... service concept (BVS) and the public/private partnership (PPP). © MCB UP Limited 2001 Value Facilities management Health care Innovation Partnering The contract was awarded to the Bateman/Tarmac (now Carillion) consortium on the basis that it offered the highest achievable added...

... 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...