INDIVIDUAL HOSPITAL ROOMS

[SeniorPZ]

For the life of me I cant get past the tutorial 3 and dont wanna proceed into playing sandbox until everything is fully understood. Anyway, If I ever get out of the tutorial, will I be able to build just individual hospital rooms like in real life with the patients having their own individual bathroom?

[Mallister]

Yes, Wards can be either communal or individual.

The pre-made templates include a 4 bed ward (6 x 14 I think) and a small single room (4x6). Both come in a standard ward and HDU (High Risk but not ICU cases) variety.

Ward space tends to be at a premium, as you can easily have 10 cases pre or post op, plus admissions for supportive care. I almost always personally use block wards, but a complete individual room system is very doable.

[SeniorPZ]

Originally posted by Manderly:

Yes, Wards can be either communal or individual.

The pre-made templates include a 4 bed ward (6 x 14 I think) and a small single room (4x6). Both come in a standard ward and HDU (High Risk but not ICU cases) variety.

Ward space tends to be at a premium, as you can easily have 10 cases pre or post op, plus admissions for supportive care. I almost always personally use block wards, but a complete individual room system is very doable.

Nice! Thanks mate.

[dorianmode]

'individual hospital rooms like real life' - depending on where you are in the world, this is hilarious.

[SeniorPZ]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

'individual hospital rooms like real life' - depending on where you are in the world, this is hilarious.

Happy to know you find humor in this.

[dorianmode]

I'm from the UK - if you're in an individual hospital room there's something gone very wrong with somebody's economics.

[inge]

By the way, I was struggling with the tutorials also. In the end I found I learned the game easier by just jumping into sandbox and experimenting. Some of the tutorials need an overhaul ;)

[SeniorPZ]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

I'm from the UK - if you're in an individual hospital room there's something gone very wrong with somebody's economics.

Wow, so it's that seriously difficult to get a private room in the UK? Thats very interesting....learn something new every day.

[SeniorPZ]

Originally posted by inge:

By the way, I was struggling with the tutorials also. In the end I found I learned the game easier by just jumping into sandbox and experimenting. Some of the tutorials need an overhaul ;)

I guess I'll just have to do the same...geez

[dorianmode]

Originally posted by AFK4Realz:

Wow, so it's that seriously difficult to get a private room in the UK? Thats very interesting....learn something new every day.

Massive waste of money. If you want to use private medicine and pay for one, then I guess you could.
I'd rather my money was spent on being healthy, than making a building (and someone's wallet) shiny. But there you go.

[SeniorPZ]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

Originally posted by AFK4Realz:

Wow, so it's that seriously difficult to get a private room in the UK? Thats very interesting....learn something new every day.

Massive waste of money. If you want to use private medicine and pay for one, then I guess you could.
I'd rather my money was spent on being healthy, than making a building (and someone's wallet) shiny. But there you go.

Gotta say, that's a smart way to look at it.

[Gunboat Diplomat]

Adding to the discussion, Canada is middle-of-the-road on that. We have universal healthcare, so everyone is guaranteed treatment and everyone gets triaged the same as anyone else (private insurance won't buy you a quicker hip replacement, at least not unless you go to the US, where it wouldn't be covered anyway), but hospitals here do also have individual rooms. Those rooms are paid for by private insurance if a patient has that kind of coverage (though ultimately the priority is always patient care).

It's kinda like a value-added service. There are citizens with money who can and will pay for that sort of thing. Might as well provide it, take the money, and use the extra cash to cover costs (and ultimately pay *even less* per capita in tax dollars than we already do, which compared to the US is a pittance for comparable care).

Not bashing on the US or anything (though, any American will know this is just in keeping with our long-standing tradition of taking jibes at each other...).

[dorianmode]

Value added is reasonable - in the UK it's totally separate systems, so the extra cash from value added goes into more marketing for shiny hospitals, and lobbying to sell of the public elements of the service. Difficult to be sanguine about something that's quite politically charged over here.

[inge]

We in the UK used to have a system where you could be treated under the NHS and get a normal NHS standard of health care, but if you paid a little extra you could get a private room, so you just paid for privacy and comfort but the same care as everyone else. The extra money from this went to help the hospital buy equipment.

As a separate thing, you could pay for private medical care, which did get you more time with your chosen consultant (attending in US) and let you be treated sooner, but didn't automatically come with a private room - what happened was the private doctors paid to kind of rent beds to put their own patients in - the fee set to cover all the hospital facilities you would use while there. Not only did the hospital make a bit of extra money allowing private doctors to do this, but often the private doctors who wanted to have special new equipment and machinery would pay a lot towards those machines which were then available for the whole hospital to use.

At a certain era this went out of favor politically, and NHS hospitals refused to be associated with private practice. Then some totally private hospitals sprang up, which we still have. Run by companies like Bupa. However, they usually offer only elective or cosmetic treatments, since if we collapse in the street of an emergency, someone will call an NHS ambulance and the NHS ambulance will only take you to an NHS hospital. So the private hospitals never bothered with emergency rooms. This means that if something goes wrong with an operation in a private hospital they usually have to send you in an ambulance to an NHS hospital to put it right. This is why private medicine is not as well respected in England as it is in many other countries.

[Kotli]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

I'm from the UK - if you're in an individual hospital room there's something gone very wrong with somebody's economics.

Or have an infectious disease that requires you be isolated in your own room.

[Ant_man {Ak}]

So how much do you pay for your health insurance? Via taxes or out of pocket then? I’m studying healthcare administration in the USA and it’s clear there’s plenty of problems here. >.<