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Outpatient Clinic Floor Plan Term Paper

Healthcare -- Floor Plan Renovation of an existing facility into a walk-in health clinic would be a complex, expensive task. It would involve careful planning, numerous stakeholders, land, building, renovations, driveway and parking, contracts, furnishings, equipment and supplies. Budget planning would be critical. Having completed this task, I would change several key aspects of my plan.

If this is a new facility or a renovation

I selected renovation of an existing facility, which is a walk-in health clinic. The floorplan follows:

(Smartdraw, LLC, 2016)

Reason you selected the facility

I chose this facility because it is an increasingly common and modern structure for providing outpatient medical care in a community

Who are your stakeholders for this project

The stakeholders for this project are: providers; patients; payers; and in certain circumstances, the patients' employers (Duke University School of Medicine - Department of Community and Family Medicine, 2016). In addition, due to my need for significant financing, other stakeholders may include investors/banks.

4. What are your planning needs

Planning needs are:

a. Finance for building and land purchase, remodel, furniture, equipment and supplies;

b. Purchase of a building for use by the clinic. The total office space should be approximately 1200 square feet on a lot 120' x 70'.

c. Experienced contractor;

d. Construction contracts for office remodel and parking/driveway construction;

e. Blacktop parking for ten (10) cars;

f. Driveway entrance;

g. Building remodel, to include:

1) Main office;

2) Waiting Room;

3) Two (2) examination rooms;

4) Records room;

5) Two (2) restrooms;

6) Recovery room.

h. Furnishings, including:

1) Four (4) office chairs;

2) Five (4) waiting room chairs;

3) Two (2) wheeled stools for examination rooms;

4) Three (3) filing cabinets for main office;

5) Four (4) filing cabinets for...

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Medical examination equipment;
j. Medical outpatient surgical equipment;

k. Medical supplies;

l. General office supplies.

5. What are your planning goals

Confining the discussion to floor plan alone, my planning goals are:

a. A location that is accessible to a generous population of potential patients;

b. A state-of-the-art, adequately spacious walk-in clinic;

c. Sufficient driveway and parking facilities;

d. Sufficient financing.

6. Cost estimates for one room in your facility (provide a chart containing each item in the room, the estimated cost of the items, and a total for that one room)

Examination Room

Office chair

Wheeled stool

Examination table

1995.00

Combination supply cabinet/writing surface

2,595.00

Medical examination equipment

3,000.00

Medical outpatient surgical equipment

20,000.00

Medical supplies

2,000.00

General office Supplies

TOTAL

$30,674.77

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7. How would you handle budget planning

Budget planning would include calculations of:

a. Startup expenses, including costs of all the planning needs listed in #4 above;

b. Startup assets, including cash, any startup…

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Berry, T. (n.d.). Estimating realistic startup costs. Retrieved from articles.bplans.com: http://articles.bplans.com/estimating-realistic-start-up-costs/

Duke University School of Medicine - Department of Community and Family Medicine. (2016). Who are the Stakeholders in Healthcare? Retrieved from patientsafety.duhs.duke.edu: http://patientsafetyed.duhs.duke.edu/module_a/introduction/stakeholders.html

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Medical Device Depot, Inc. (2016). Clinton classic series chrome base exam stool with round footring. Retrieved from www.meicaldevicedepot.com: https://www.medicaldevicedepot.com/Clinton-Classic-Series-Chrome-Base-Stool-p/2102.htm
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