QUALITY OF HOSPITAL DESIGN IN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY: HISTORY, BENEFITS AND FUTURE PROSPECT

In this modern day, Hospitals are considered as the integral part of healthcare industry including health as whole (Public Health), Pharmaceuticals and other associated fields. Making patient and employee friendly hospitals setup and environment are the big challenges nowadays. Quality interventions have given a new insight and scope for improvements, not only the services of the hospitals but also to make great structure. Few accreditation agencies in the field of Hospital accreditation are working day and night to help healthcare providers directly to improve the hospital services qualities and make a healthy and safe environment hospital-wide and set a benchmark for other hospitals. Few of better examples of great infrastructures can be seen in the developed and developing countries. But there are still a lot of improvements and initiative required for quality hospital infrastructure and design. Most healthcare designers accept the fact that designing a hospital is a complex task: both functional and psychological. Apart from building services, healthcare designers are expected to conform to various requirements provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) which includes medical specialist requirements and equipment both for diagnostics and for treatment in the respective countries.