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L Souhrada

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Storage: putting limited space to the best use.

It's a battle of wits in the war to gain storage space. Plus, storage systems fax poll: your chance to tell manufacturers about what you need in storage equipment.

Hospital Design and Construction↗

New rules of success for outpatient facilities.

The recent revolution in outpatient care has rearranged the rules of thumb for hospital construction. While the vast majority of hospital facilities were designed for inpatient care, the biggest growth area is now outpatient, resulting in a need to rethink outpatient care site planning.

Ambulatory Surgical Procedures↗

Hospitals and patient-monitoring equipment: time for a reappraisal.

Is patient-monitoring technology becoming overused? Five years ago, no one would even have posed the question. Now, almost any patient, whether under heavy sedation or a local anesthetic, is a candidate for monitoring under today's standards of care. And a growing number of organizations are setting guidelines on the use of patient monitors. Monitors of all kinds are being used to track the vital signs of patients in virtually every hospital department--from operating and recovery rooms to critical care units. And because existing guidelines are vague about where and when monitors are required, hospitals may need more monitors simply to avoid liability.

Ambulatory Care↗

Design & construction.

The deepening recession hasn't slowed hospital construction activity--at least not yet. While experts say health care executives should expect fewer large projects within the next two years, as the result of unpredictable sources of capital and increasing censure of hospital capital spending, for the moment hospital projects are helping to shelter some design and construction firms from the recession's fallout.

Costs and Cost Analysis↗

Hospitals' use of contract management approaches 50%.

Hospital CEOs are evenly split on the issue of whether to contract with outside firms to manage departments in their facilities. Although a small majority have never used contractors, the number of executives employing contract managers is growing--and executives are pleased with the results. These are just a few of the results of Hospitals' recent survey of 1,100 hospital CEOs nationwide. The survey asked executives for information about their hospitals' use of more than 40 specific services, including "hotel," business and clinical contract services. Our survey is one of only a few major studies ever undertaken that have asked hospitals themselves about their use of contract-management services. And what were they looking for? Interestingly, not economic advantage but specialized expertise.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗