Real World Hospital Layouts

[Endicott]

An interesting description from a real world hospital designer. I am going to give this a try with a new hospital in the game:

Outer Zone – areas that are immediately accessible to the public: emergency service, outpatient service, and administrative service. They shall be located near the entrance of the hospital.

Second Zone – areas that receive workload from the outer zone: laboratory, pharmacy, and radiology. They shall be located near the outer zone.

Inner Zone – areas that provide nursing care and management of patients: nursing service. They shall be located in private areas but accessible to guests.

Deep Zone – areas that require asepsis to perform the prescribed services: surgical service, delivery service, nursery, and intensive care. They shall be segregated from the public areas but accessible to the outer, second and inner zones.

Service Zone – areas that provide support to hospital activities: dietary service, housekeeping service, maintenance and motor pool service, and mortuary. They shall be located in areas away from normal traffic.