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Maintenance management of healthcare facilities is a complex subject which has gradually matured to become an established research and development topic. Use this Briefing to find out about strategies for action, how to manage risks and also the central themes in the development of a healthcare facilities management model.
Articles:
Managing FM (support services): business risks in the healthcare sector
This paper presents research findings of 365 NHS Trust executives in the UK and builds on work carried out on risk perceptions and treatment in facilities management operations and business support activities in the NHS Trusts.
Originally published in Facilities
Volume 20 Number 1/2, 2002
Key performance indicators for maintenance of health-care facilities
Maintenance management of health care facilities is one of the more complex subjects in the field of maintenance. The performance of hospital buildings is affected by numerous factors, including quality of hospital maintenance, actual occupancy vs standard occupancy, age of buildings, surrounding infrastructures and so on.
Originally published in Facilities
Volume 21 Number 1/2, 2003
Development of an integrated healthcare facilities management model
The increasing competitiveness in the business sector forces facilities managers in reducing expenditure on “non-core” activities. Consequently, the integration of different domains related to facilities management (FM) motivates the development of a quantitative model, which may contribute both to the planning of FM activities and to the improved effectiveness of FM units.
Originally published in Facilities
Volume 21 Number 1/2, 2003
Healthcare facilities management: state of the art review
This paper reviews the state of the art in the main domains related to healthcare FM and defines the central themes in the development of a healthcare FM model.
Originally published in Facilities
Volume 22 Number 7/8, 2004
Patient focused healthcare: an important concept for provision and management of space and services to the healthcare sector
How will the relationship between patients, the service level and the geographic conditions in healthcare develop in the future? The task will be of great impact for location of new properties and the use of existing healthcare buildings. In order to improve healthcare space requirements, it is important to understand the expression “horizontal integrated care”.
Originally published in Facilities
Volume 22 Number 11/12, 2004
A qualitative study of facilities and their environmental performance
The results of this study indicate that building comfort level assessments play a critical role in influencing the health complaints and building general sufficiency level judgements of employees. These judgements differ from each other for the hospital groups classified according to the ownership criteria. This study will support a better evaluation of development policies of workplace environmental conditions by managers.
Originally published in Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal
Volume 15 Number 2, 2004
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