Hospital Operations Planning, Simulation and Architecture

Architecture and operations are inherently linked. What happens inside a building is influenced by space, and space is influenced by what goes on inside of it. This is especially important in health care architecture and design. Health care programmers, planners and designers have always regarded operations planning in some capacity during the architectural process but how this is done has evolved.

Here the authors discuss three project examples where both spreadsheet analysis and/or Six Sigma simulation were used during pre-design to plan and improve operations performance in health care settings.