How many HDU/regular beds per department do your hospitals have?

[EvanBear]

I want to build a small hospital that contains all departments and am wondering how many beds I should put in each department both for HDU and for regular hospitalization. Also, does orthopaedy even need a HDU? With broken bones I can't really see much going wrong. Should all departments have the same amount of beds if I want all departments in my hospital or should it differ? Which departments need more beds, which less? Please help 😂

[Dr VDS Imperator]

I usually start small with 6 regular beds and 4 HDU per deparment, and then adjust if needed !
Orthopaedics needs HDU indeed for all facial traumas, and more than you can expect !
The number if patient adressed to a precise departement changes almost every day, so a derpartement may be full the first day and almost empty the next one, I haven't noticed a specific departement always needing more beds than an other...
For HDU I think Cardiology needs more HDU than regular beds, Oncology far more regular than HDU but the most important, to me, is to be able to adapt !
It is quite easy to convert a regular room to an HDU one, and an HDU to regular, you just have to add or remove some stuff... I personnaly have a kind of closet full of stuff that allow me to convert fastly a room if needed !

[EvanBear]

Thank you so much for your answer dude! I'm gonna try 6 regular and 4 HDU as well. I forgot about facial trauma and all the internal bleeding and stuff that can happen for orthopaedy cases! I'll switch it around to 6 HDU and 4 regular for cardiology for starters, can always change it later. Your closet idea is super clever and I should definitely do that!

But how do you have an Oncology department? I don't have that in my game.

[thsyrus]

Oncology is a mod in the workshop. It's pretty good.

[EvanBear]

Oh I see, makes sense why I don't have it in my game. I should try it out soon!

[Dreamscape]

I have a custom regular ward and HDU. Ward 17x6 and HDU 18x6. My HDU fits 11 beds. When I first build hospitalization I usually put just a couple beds and only add more when they are needed. HDU is actually more important than regular ward, meaning that it's used far more often than regular ward. Existing original prefabs sure look nice but are highly inefficient, I ended up redesigning almost every room.

[Oberkampfkater]

Heyho,

my wards are designed as 'integrated wards' with everything thats needed.

They contain:

• doctors ready room (2x workplaces) and room for chief of the ward (1x workplace)
  
• room for the head of department
  
• common room + staff toilet/shower/changing room
  
• nursing station (2x workplaces for ward nurses + 3x workplaces for porter nurses), ward pharmacy, storage room
  
• 2x diagnostic rooms
  
• multifuctional diagnostic room (1x sonography + 1x cardiology units)
  
• patient common room/lounge
  
• patien/visitors toilet
  
• 10x normal beds in single rooms with en-suite bath
  
• 10x HDU beds in single rooms with en-suite bath

The surgical team (1x surgeon, 1x assistant, 2x surgery nurses) has its own room(s) in the central surgery department. All anaesthetic services are provide by the specialists from the ICU (one exclusive anaesthesist per operating theatre).

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[MedJet]

Well, it varies, though before some update (so many over last couple months I don't know when this happened) but my plan to only run HDUs and 1 required Reg bed per dept has been hindered a bit. I've noticed in a few depts my original setup would allow me to ok a regular patient to be placed in an HDU (since I found I'd rather just setup my depts with those as opposed to dealing with adequate stock of both). Lately, I have encountered issues with a few depts (not all) where patients are being automatically routed to a regular bed for treatment out of trauma, in a dept where I don't have any available. So I have to reassign their dept to usually general surg, and then it kicks in the option for me to put them into an HDU bed. Oh well, my hospital. HAHAHAHA!

[EndlessSauron]

1 bed per room, yikes! I usually put 2-4 for space, but ive also increased the total amount of patients I get.

[Oberkampfkater]

Hmm - I find it rather awkward that patients with all their maladies should share rooms. MAYBE in the orthopaedics department, but everything else ... there should be sufficient privacy. If need be I could be persuaded to use double bed rooms - but double rooms need nearly as much space then two single rooms.

[EndlessSauron]

hmmmm, i'mt playing on a 64x64 map and i currenly disagree, but on a 96x96, there would be tons of space of nice and large single rooms. Also with only ER, and GS departments, no hospitalization yet, still trying to fund the expansion, am seeing anywhere between 65 and 80 patients, this will only grow to 200+ when all 6 insurance companies are fully unlocked.

[EvanBear]

Thank you so much for the detailed response, Oberkampfkater! I usually put 2-4 beds in one room as that's how it is in real hospitals where I live. I had to share my room with an alcoholic with liver failure when I was in hospital for my lung.

Thanks also for all the other responses! I usually play on a 64 x 64 map as well Endless, as there is much less lag than there is with the big map.

[Esidara]

On general surgery, for HDU I have 32 beds split across two wards, and 16 beds in regular hospitalisation in one ward.

[EvanBear]

Esidara is general surgery the only ward you have or do you have multiple departments?

[Esidara]

Originally posted by Marie:

Esidara is general surgery the only ward you have or do you have multiple departments?

Only department I have at this time (other than ICU)

Edit: I'm currently downsizing, and going back to 16 for each. How long that will last is a mystery!

[EvanBear]

Ah I understand, the more departments you have the less beds you need in each department. If general surgery is your only department 32 beds don't seem that unreasonable.