Forest Health Services
This 23 bed Bariatric Care Center was designed on two premises: careful
consideration
for the patient’s comfort, and efficient staff work patterns. The
result is a facility that
was built in half the time and money. It also operates
with a significantly reduced staff,
while keeping quality at the highest levels.
The layout of the facility was designed around the patient. Upon entering, the
admission
testing services are conveniently located within 80 feet of the front door. The patient is
located into one room and the nurse, physician and lab staff come
to them. On the
day
of surgery, the patient is led directly to the patient room,
bypassing the typical
institutional feeling of a hospital admission office.
The core of the patient area was designed to foster patient interaction in a home-like
atmosphere. The patients’ rooms are designed in neighborhoods around a central nurse
station, with each bed designed to afford the patient a view of the outdoors
as well as of
their caregiver. The caregivers in turn have a view of the central nurse
station and other
neighborhood caregivers.
Surgery rooms are equipped with technology to accommodate newly developed heads-
down surgery monitoring techniques, and arranged for a rapid turnover
between cases
through access from the clean to the dirty side of the room.
