Any tips for hospital layouts?

[test]

Hello, i've only recently started playing this game (so far i love it) but im having some issues with the layout of my hospital.

Well, when I say issues ... i think its too early to say if i have issues or not but I still would like to get some tips as to where do you place your emergency department, the medical laboratories etc

Also, do I have to build every department room next to eachother or can I spread them around? For example, in my current game I have the microbiology lab in one side of my clinic and the hematology lab on the other side (dunno why i built it like this).

So, that sort of tips, building tips, layouts etc.
The game doesnt really explain or give you hints as to how to build the hospital, how big the rooms have to be etc.

EDIT: forgot to ask this, can you have more than one reception (for example when the hospital gets bigger, can i have another entrance with its reception)? Do you need receptions for every department?

Any help would be appreciated.

[RedTurkey]

You can spread your room however you like, just keep in mind that the employee will have to use bathroom and restroom, so make sure there is one close enough to prevent them from losing a lot of time going back and forth. (also, they will tend to use the room of their own department if they have one or will go to the closest one).

Also, the cleaning team will first wash their own department and then will help other department, keep that in mind too.

You can also make the laboratory department and radiology department in their own area or spread them among every department where needed, but if you do spread them, don't build particular restroom and bathroom (or cleaning team room) for those and just let them use the closest one from another department.

You can build how many receptions you want, but I tend to just put one per department, as patient will first go to the department they think they belong to, and then go to the reception of that department if there is one.
Also, if a doctor think that a patient belong to another department, they will send them here, but they won't go back to the reception of that department, they will directly go to a doctor (or in hospitalisation if they already were)., meaning that they will only go one time to any reception.

Edit: You can have more that one reception per department, patients will simply go to the closest one of their department, but I generally only have one on ground floor. And it's better if every department (apart from laboratories and radiology) have their own reception, but it's not an absolute.

[schwammal]

Hi :)

- for the Emergency Unit I would recommend to book the whole ground floor,
a couple trauma centers near the street for a short ambulance arrival later on
- the rest is on you, although it is nice to keep the departments together
(radiology and medical laboratories mostly on the second floor and then proceeding upwards
- as start i would recommend aswell to use empty scenario buildings from the workshop
- in building mode / last tab called 'prefabs' gets you good templates for room layouts to get an
idea about the optimal size
- you can have more then one reception, it is an advanced waiting room for itsself, the smaller departments #2/3/4 (radiology / medical laboratories / intensive care unit) don't need a reception as you can read out with the management mode, for the others i would recommend 1 reception with 2 PC's / working places (max 4 receptionists day'n'night each department should be enough)
- within the bigger departments I am trying to keep the common room, on-call room, nursing station around the center to keep the travel distance short

hope this'll help, cheers