Project Management of Medical Facilities

In today's competitive global market, the managing of a full and successful implementation of developing a new Hospital is to be considered very carefully.

There are a number of aspects to a hospital project, not just a building plan and a construction site.

One requires the input of experts in this market to be able to assist with the overall management, covering all the various aspects of managing a profitable hospital.

Interhealth, together with our partners in these types of projects, are in a position to provide expert input from the initial concept through to the completion and hand over of the actual facility, also offering to manage the facility on your behalf.

We can assist with market surveys, to evaluate the potential success of a project.

After the market survey is completed, and a decision is taken to go ahead with the project, we are able to provide you with a comprehensive package to manage the whole process from this point onwards.

The contents of the Construction and Commissioning agreement will include:

• Project Plan
• Appointment of design team, architects, quantity surveyors etc
• Finalise design and construction requirements
• Equipment Requirement Identification
• Preparation of tender documentation
• Tender adjudication
• Appointment of suppliers
• Legal
• Commissioning plan
• Equipment Implementation
• Training and testing
• Commissioning Support

The contents of the Management Agreement will include:

• Corporate Governance Structures
• Operational Draft Policy Development and Quality Management
• Recruitment and Management Services
• Operational Plan
• Financial Plan and Budget
• Training and Development
• Materials Management
• Management Fees
• Required Legal Contracts
• Indicative Commercial Offering

Breakdown of Implementation staff:

• Financial
• Human Resources
• Nursing
• Procurement
• Information Technology
• Clinical Governance
• Pharmacy
• Training and Development

Apart from the actual construction component, input is required on the actual management and implementation of the operational component of the facility once construction is completed.

This phase needs to be addressed at the same time as the construction is taking place.

We are able to provide assistance in all of the following components of the healthcare delivery chain:

• Implementing an entirely new private healthcare system:
  • Coding:
    • Diagnosis
    • Procedure
    • Groupings
  • Clinical:
    • policies and procedures
    • Clinical governance
    • Clinical pathways
    • Clinical outcomes
  • Case management
  • Fee structures:
    • Fee for service
    • Wards
    • Theatres
    • Extra's
    • Drugs
    • Surgicals
    • Prosthesis
    • Doctors
    • Radiology
    • Pathology
    • Allied services
  • Fixed fee
  • Per diems
  • Global fee
• Funder relations
• Billing
• Activity based costing
• Training:
  • Nurses
  • Management
  • Coding
• Information technology infrastructure:
  • Hardware
  • Software:
    • Billing
    • Coding
    • Patient master index
    • Clinical records
    • Electronic patient scheduling system
    • Doctor online system
    • Teleradiology
    • Telepathology
• Procurement infrastructure
• Clinician profiling system
• Possibility of rewriting the minimum building specifications
• Develop processes within the hospital based on Best Practice
• Referral guidelines
• Quality control systems
• Private Medical Insurance

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