How do you build a profitable hospital?

[TeamMM3]

I must be missing something, I've restarted three times now trying to make a hospital that just will make money. All I've built so far is everything in emergency, radiology, an ICU, and surgery. I have 220k in loans and daily profits are anywhere from -$5k to +5k a day. Not nearly enough to provide income to expand. I still haven't treated 50 patients a day. The problem is, I don't get 50 patients per day so how is this possible without expanding? And to expand I'd have to build a new department which means more loans...I'm frustrated at this point. I know it might be tough to know what I'm doing wrong without seeing my hospital but any tips on how to be profitable in a smaller hospital?

EDIT: Here's my hospital, maybe this might help to see if I have too much or too little of something. https://imgur.com/0YgqHKR

[Delta-9]

Sounds exactlly like mine. I even left the game running last night, in high speed. Just so I could have some money today. But, 40k isnt going to do much..lol At this rate, I'll have to let the game just run for 40 hours real time..haha

[Kotli]

I believe the best way to get a profitable hospital is to just do clinic side only.

[Blue_Bug]

Didn't have a single day whithout profit (except costs for building). ATM I have profit around usd 30.000 a day.

First tip, don't go to fast and only take loans you can pay back in a few days. Interest rates are high !.

2nd. : Open first all the clinics. It will provide you with 80 patients a day and a steady profit.

3nd : Keep an eye on your prestige. When its high enough you will earn 20% extra

[TeamMM3]

Oh ok so open all of the clinics first. I've never opened the last four clinics before. So don't worry about hospitalization at all?

[Blue_Bug]

Originally posted by TeamMM3:

Oh ok so open all of the clinics first. I've never opened the last four clinics before. So don't worry about hospitalization at all?

Not at the beginning of the game. Later on : Yes. ATM I make most money from hospitalization. But to start hozpitalization is very expensive and you don't have ambulances yet.

Also clinic for Neuro and Cardio gets you patients who pay 40 % more as your standard insurance company. Thats an awfull lot of money, you don't get when you didn't open it. Those % you will also miss on your hospitalization departments with the expensive treatments.

[Blue_Bug]

Originally posted by Delta-9:

Originally posted by Blue_Bug:

Didn't have a single day whithout profit (except costs for building). ATM I have profit around usd 30.000 a day.

First tip, don't go to fast and only take loans you can pay back in a few days. Interest rates are high !.

2nd. : Open first all the clinics. It will provide you with 80 patients a day and a steady profit.

3nd : Keep an eye on your prestige. When its high enough you will earn 20% extra

Getting to your 2nd point..I have every clinic room, and never got over 30 people.....
If you are talking about departments, then how the hell?..lol Without loans? And, epecially ones that you can payback the 20-100k(to open the dept.) in "a few days"...

Here is a better question: How many in game days did you take, before you opened hospitalization? clinic<>hospitalization

Spoiler, No you don't have every clinic room. If you only get 30 people you have only build EMS clinic and maybe GS clinic. You can however build GP offices and waiting rooms for the other departments. After you have hired staff for it, you can open the insurance companies for it. I would start with Cardio and Neuro as those insurances pay the most and have the best earnings a treatment. Kep in mind at some time you must also open Labs, toilets and cleaning rooms for those departments.

At the moment I'm at ingame day 16 and opened only 3 hospitalization departments yet. The last one I just opened.

[dorianmode]

Originally posted by Blue_Bug:

Kep in mind at some time you must also open Labs, toilets and cleaning rooms for those departments.

You don't - you can have a doctor's office and waiting room and nothing else and it'll function just fine.

[dorianmode]

You can even piggyback the other department labs if you can be bothered to transfer patients when they can't find a diagnosis.

[Blue_Bug]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

Originally posted by Blue_Bug:

Keep in mind at some time you must also open Labs, toilets and cleaning rooms for those departments.

You don't - you can have a doctor's office and waiting room and nothing else and it'll function just fine.

Yes, eventually you have to. for example not every lab examination is available at every lab. Also at the moment you hospitalize somebody (not EMS) you can't sent them back to observation. Also its a lot of manual work to keep them transfering to departments. Also Transfering patients costs extra time you don't want to loose that time with critical patients. In the beginning its a good solution to transfer patients for lab examinations, cause labs costs a lot of money. But eventually you want a own lab for every department. I wouldn't advise to build an hospitalization department without building a lab for that department first.

As that lab needs a waiting room, I would advise to keep it in mind for your future building plans.

[dorianmode]

You're talking about running clinics only for maximum profitability with minimal expense - you don't need labs.

Labs also don't need their own waiting room...

[Blue_Bug]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

You're talking about running clinics only for maximum profitability with minimal expense - you don't need labs.

Labs also don't need their own waiting room...

We are talking about making a profitable hospital. If you want to transfer 30-40 patients a day, be my guest. I rather spend my time otherwise, and the time of my staff otherwise.

I never said that labs needs their OWN waiting room. I said it needs a waiting room (or only use it for hospitalized patients). You want that lab close to a waiting room, otherwise your staff keeps waiting for the patients to bring their samples and to get their results.

[dorianmode]

You don't need to transfer anywhere near that many patients - most diagnoses don't need labs.

The whole thread is about making a profitable hospital. Labs are not essential to this.

~17k for a lab.

Essential for (let's be generous) 10% of cases you get (let's be generous) 20 patients a day... about 1k a treatment... that's 2k revenue from the lab.

100 for a technologist - that's 1.9k a day (let's be generous). Pays for itself in 8 days and (let's be generous) earns you 1.9k from then on.

=shrug=

Open another clinic first.

[Twice Baked]

So I am assuming I need to have "unlock all departments" checked? (Sandbox)

[Tmacer]

Originally posted by Twice Baked:

So I am assuming I need to have "unlock all departments" checked? (Sandbox)

Nope! No need for that. You can easily unlock a department by simply building it and hiring a doctor.

[Kotli]

Originally posted by Twice Baked:

So I am assuming I need to have "unlock all departments" checked? (Sandbox)

Nope all clinics are unlocked from the start. Its only the hospitalization rooms that are locked.