How do you guys optimize your layouts?

[Krall]

I just started playing again after a few year layoff and bought all the DLC so now my mind is in tinker mode.

Just wondering if you all group your emergency doctor rooms a certain way with bathrooms, breakrooms and labs near by or some other way?

[Nutraloaf]

In my most recent playthrough, all my doctor's offices (for all departments) are on the first floor, along with reception and my emergency room. The lab (all three) is right behind the emergency room. Radiology, my future helipad, and admin rooms are on the top floor. Hospitalization are on the floors in-between.

[JKwon]

My most recent hospital has emergency clinic and trauma center close to each other. As I have surgery open I receive many patients close to collapsing and having the clinic and trauma close helps them being cared for faster. In between I have break room, bathrooms and radiology rooms. It helps patients in emergency clinics and TC not having to go through the whole hospital just to make an x-ray.

Second floor I have everything related to surgery and hospitalization with its own break room and bathrooms. Third floor I installed traumatology and CTI as people in trauma go to CTI a lot. I didn't open other clinics yet. I'm happy with my hospital the way it is. =)

[Nutraloaf]

Here's a photo of my first floor that I described before:

https://i.imgur.com/K3hvbvi.png

[iancw]

I tend to do all emergency, morgue and radiology on the ground floor. First floor usually has labs, plus some specialist clinics, and general surgery wards etc...

Second floor the rest of the specialists, another hospitalisation wing, and a 'suite' of operating. Surgical team on-call and nurses are near the operating rooms, I have a separate on-call room in each ward (I combine HDU & normal) with non-surgery doctors.

Everything I try to do as modular so I can copy and paste- so the wards are pretty uniform all the way up.

[Krall]

Originally posted by Nutraloaf:

Here's a photo of my first floor that I described before:

https://i.imgur.com/K3hvbvi.png

Wow nice! Doing 90 patients a day! lol 50 or so drives me bonkers. I never thought of using 2 elevators. I, after reading your description was going to ask if it was slow, but I guess it's not.

Your doc rooms are 5x5?

[Alphakuh]

In my most recent hospital it looks like this:

First floor with 8 emergency offices, than labs (4 techs per lab), radiology with everything once except X-ray twice, then the emergency ward with tc at the arriving spot

Second floor starts with: 3 departments (cardiology, orthopedic, surgery) and X-ray, CT, sonography, angiography and what you need for that 3 departments to fix

Than I have may icu ward with 18 beds, and a full radiology department with twice of every room most for hospitalised patients also labs for only hospitalised

3th floor has another 3 departments with rooms they need for diagnosis, operating rooms and all rooms for doctors and nurses that do surgery

4th and 5th floor: hospitalization wards with all they need for about 16 beds in normal ward and 14 for the other ward
2 rooms for nurses (one for caring for patients others for Transport)
and so on :)

[Alphakuh]

Later I can send some screenshots if you want to.

[Alphakuh]

Originally posted by Krall:

Originally posted by Nutraloaf:

Here's a photo of my first floor that I described before:

https://i.imgur.com/K3hvbvi.png

Wow nice! Doing 90 patients a day! lol 50 or so drives me bonkers. I never thought of using 2 elevators. I, after reading your description was going to ask if it was slow, but I guess it's not.

Your doc rooms are 5x5?

More than 1 elevator makes only sense if you want to have faster way on the other point of the Hospital. Next to each other it makes no difference.

[Alphakuh]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2285000565

Here you can see my first floor

[Krall]

Originally posted by stefizzle:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2285000565

Here you can see my first floor

Thanks! That's a great layout too :)

I like your little 'garden' in the center.

[Alphakuh]

Originally posted by Krall:

Originally posted by stefizzle:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2285000565

Here you can see my first floor

Thanks! That's a great layout too :)

I like your little 'garden' in the center.

Thanks. I can show you also the other floors if you want to

[katiem]

first floor i have my GP offices, outpatient radiology, inpatient radiology, emergency, outpatient labs, public canteen, pharmacy, gift shop

the inpatient radiology is next to emergency and close to elevators in a staff only area, that will remain staff only consistently throughout all floors. on above floors i'll put things like common rooms and storage for stretchers and wheelchairs in it.

all offices are on edges for windowspace. the big radiology machines like MRI are on the edges for ease of access if they need replacing & cleaning, can just take the wall down from the ouside. (i like to build my hospital as realistic as possible)

second floor i reserve for specialist clinics and outpatient diagnostics

third floor i'll reserve for observation wards, staff canteen, study room, and inpatient labs.

fourth floor is for ICU and operating theatres. i like operating theaters to be close to ICU for those emergency surgeries. with the new DLC i'll probably put my burns unit here now too,

fifth floor above is the wards for all the other departments usually two-three depts per floor, except for the new dlc infectious diseases one they'll be isolated on their own floor for obvious reasons. these floors will also include inpatient diagnostics. all wards will be on edges for windowspace obvs.

top floor is where i'll put pathology/the morgue and an additional trauma center for ambulance patients, leading out to a rooftop helipad.

[LMes]

In my best game with every departments :
First floor :
- everything about emergency (trauma, observation, consultations),
- little pharmacy, gift shop and cafetaria
- Pathology department
- Infectious diseases department
Second floor :
- Surgery department
- Radiology department n°1
- Laboratories n°1
- Pharmacy
- Cafetaria
Third floor :
- Orthopedic department
- Radiology departement n°2
- Gift shop
- Supplementary radiology rooms (mabye gonna change)
- Big training room
Fourth floor :
- Cardiology department
- Internal medecine consultations and procedure
- Extra laboratories
- Training room, cafetarie, cleaning room
Fith floor :
- Neurology department
- Internal medecine hospitalisation
- Empty space (didn't found what to put inside for now)
Six floor :
- Traumatology department
- 1 Trauma room for helicopter patients
- ICU

[Dazzlefluff]

Originally posted by stefizzle:

Originally posted by Krall:

Thanks! That's a great layout too :)

I like your little 'garden' in the center.

Thanks. I can show you also the other floors if you want to

I would love to see the other floors! Love this layout

[lembos-hauser]

Dont really know how to share screenshots, but here is my layout: it grew organically, I expanded very slowly with a lot of training for the staff.

Ground Floor:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2753725454

One of the 4 surgery floors (Trauma, Ortho, General and Cardiac):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2753725507

ICU and most of the Radiology Floor:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2753725548

Statistics:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2753725583

maybe you like it, maybe not :)

PS: I took all screenshots at night to show, that I can handle that much patients, but then I clicked into build mode to have daylight, but then you miss all the people running around