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All 10 regions of the country were covered. Result: These were: 1 many of the nation's hospitals were not prepared for large RTA's resulting in surge demands, and did not possess general emergency preparedness programs. Long-term care organizations serve a unique patient population and operate within an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
We assist clients in meeting challenges in these types of organizations:. Assisted living facilities Long-term acute care facilities Nursing homes Rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities. As governmental entities look for ways to manage the care of their inmates, they are increasingly turning to contracted care from correctional care specialists. The OR could have positive pressure to the anteroom — keeping pathogens out of the OR — and the anteroom could be exhausted to create negative pressure with the corridor and remove any pathogens coming from either direction.
For most of the time, patient rooms are used for the basics — housing someone who needs attention but not constant acute care. But during a surge, a flexible patient room could be transformed into a space that facilitates more in-depth care, up to intensive level. A flexible patient room design would be larger than a regular room so that it could accommodate more equipment, Flannery says, and the utilities would need to be more robust. Ventilator capacity can be increased in several ways.
For one, the vaporizers on the oxygen cylinders can be oversized, which allows more oxygen flow, he says. And patient rooms can be retrofitted with more gas outlets so that more ventilators can be served, if needed. Additionally, capacity can be expanded if the gas pressure can be safely increased. However, the primary challenge is expanding the gas piping in an existing facility. A short-term solution to the oxygen problem is simply to add temporary oxygen manifolds to the patient care area, Flannery says.
This could increase oxygen capacity without construction. Another way to make a patient room more flexible is to adjust the air handling so the room can be made negative pressure, Katzenberger says. Another important consideration in designing the post-COVID hospital is considering spaces that are devoted to pandemic patients. Many hospitals have some type of isolation room, but a key to future design of such units may be to keep them together, Vincent says.
That makes it much more difficult to manage during a pandemic. The concept of isolating pandemic patients to one part of the hospital could extend to dividing the entire hospital, he says. A partially divided hospital could work if patient and staff traffic between the sectors could be limited. Katzenberger says that such a division could also be accomplished by utilizing buildings outside the main hospital, such as surgery centers or outpatient treatment facilities.
The main hospital could be devoted to pandemic care, and regular patients could be treated in the outlying buildings, he says. The overarching concept regarding hospital design post-COVID is that hospitals now have the opportunity to use these lessons to prepare for the next time. During the Ebola crisis in , some hospitals began working on negative pressure isolation units or biocontainment units, Chrisman says.
But, for the most part, those projects stopped when the Ebola crisis passed.
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