Outpatient Clinic Floor Plan

Healthcare -- Floor Plan

Renovation of an existing facility into a walk-in health clinic would be a complex, expensive task. It would involve careful planning, numerous stakeholders, land, building, renovations, driveway and parking, contracts, furnishings, equipment and supplies. Budget planning would be critical. Having completed this task, I would change several key aspects of my plan.

If this is a new facility or a renovation

I selected renovation of an existing facility, which is a walk-in health clinic. The floorplan follows:

(Smartdraw, LLC, 2016)

Reason you selected the facility

I chose this facility because it is an increasingly common and modern structure for providing outpatient medical care in a community

Who are your stakeholders for this project

The stakeholders for this project are: providers; patients; payers; and in certain circumstances, the patients' employers (Duke University School of Medicine - Department of Community and Family Medicine, 2016). In addition, due to my need for significant financing, other stakeholders may include investors/banks.

4. What are your planning needs

Planning needs are:

a. Finance for building and land purchase, remodel, furniture, equipment and supplies;

b. Purchase of a building for use by the clinic. The total office space should be approximately 1200 square feet on a lot 120' x 70'.

c. Experienced contractor;

d. Construction contracts for office remodel and parking/driveway construction;

e. Blacktop parking for ten (10) cars;

f. Driveway entrance;

g. Building remodel, to include:

1) Main office;

2) Waiting Room;

3) Two (2) examination rooms;

4) Records room;

5) Two (2) restrooms;

6) Recovery room.

h. Furnishings, including:

1) Four (4) office chairs;

2) Five (4) waiting room chairs;

3) Two (2) wheeled stools for examination rooms;

4) Three (3) filing cabinets for main office;

5) Four (4) filing cabinets for records room;

6) Two (2) examination tables;

7) One (1) end table for waiting room;

8) Two (2) desks for main office and records room;

9) Two (2) combination supply cabinets/w writing surface for examination rooms;

10) Three (3) hospital beds for recovery room;

11) Two (2) toilets;

12) Two (2) sinks.

i. Medical examination equipment;

j. Medical outpatient surgical equipment;

k. Medical supplies;

l. General office supplies.

5. What are your planning goals

Confining the discussion to floor plan alone, my planning goals are:

a. A location that is accessible to a generous population of potential patients;

b. A state-of-the-art, adequately spacious walk-in clinic;

c. Sufficient driveway and parking facilities;

d. Sufficient financing.

6. Cost estimates for one room in your facility (provide a chart containing each item in the room, the estimated cost of the items, and a total for that one room)

Examination Room

Office chair

Wheeled stool

Examination table

1995.00

Combination supply cabinet/writing surface

2,595.00

Medical examination equipment

3,000.00

Medical outpatient surgical equipment

20,000.00

Medical supplies

2,000.00

General office Supplies

TOTAL

$30,674.77

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7. How would you handle budget planning

Budget planning would include calculations of:

a. Startup expenses, including costs of all the planning needs listed in #4 above;

b. Startup assets, including cash, any startup inventory and any startup equipment, furniture and supplies;

c. Startup financing, including investments and loans (Berry, n.d.).

8. What you learned from completing your own floor plan

Completing my own floor plan taught me how complex and expensive starting up a clinic could be. I have the barest minimal floor plan, without land purchase, renovation costs, staff, phones, computers or medical software, for just a few examples, and I am already spending over $37,000.00 on a single room before seeing a single patient. This is a daunting, extremely expensive task.

9. What is your rationale for design choices

I chose this particular design because it includes necessary rooms and room logistics for running an efficient outpatient clinic.

10. Any recommendations or suggestions for completing your floor plan differently (what would you do differently next time)

After seeing the costs (which are high) vs. my startup assets (which are pretty much zero), I would probably have: only one unisex restroom; possibly only one examination room (though I'm enamored with the placement of an examination room on each side of the records room, so I'll have to think about that); and only two beds in the recovery room. Otherwise, I'm cutting it very close and don't even have a break room for staff, which could cause significant discontent at some point. In addition, rather than renovating an existing building, I might opt for buying a standing clinic and its contents, make only minor changes before starting up the business and renovate as the business flourishes over time.

C. Conclusion