Reception desk question

[advkow]

Do I just need one of these at a main entrance, or is it helpful to build one for each building? How does that work?

[Skirlasvoud]

Regular patients always check in at the reception desk first, so whichever entrance you place it, automatically becomes your main entrance. You can decide for yourself!
People only need to visit them once in the beginning of the visit and are then free to go wherever they need to within your entire complex, so you don’t need to scatter them.

I’d advice against scattering them around in fact. The next thing all regular patients visit is the GP office, so always place however many reception desks you need (1or 2 usually suffice) in a tight group near your GP offices, or build your GP offices near your reception desks.

If you scatter your reception desks and GP offices around, you run the risk of people checking in at the northern most part of the hospital, but then travel to the southernmost GP office where the queue are smallest. Always build the two closely together in tight groups.

After the GP offices, come the diagnosis rooms, which are preferably build close to the GP offices. Not only because they’re next, but because patients bounce from diagnosis back to GP and back to diagnosis again, until the GP has enough information to recommend a treatment.

So:
Tight grouping of Reception Desks -> grouping of GP offices <-> Grouping of Diagnosis rooms.

Toilets and the staff rooms are also preferred close by this cycle.

Treatment can go wherever and in distant parts of the hospital, since it’s people’s last, but hopefully not final, stop and therefore not a priority to make efficient to travel to.

[(V)(;,,;)(V)]

Iv only ever built 1 desk at the front with 2 stations. Thought about making 1 for each building but it just doesnt look appealing to me.