LogistikPlan Industry Sector: Hospitals
Logistics as an Integral Part of Hospital Planning
Public and private health-care service providers are exposed to increasing cost and regulatory pressure—a difficult balance between economic constraints and high-quality patient care.
Hospitals are complex logistics operations—comparable to railway stations or airports. A wide variety of people and material flows intersect here, along with vehicle and bed transports, emergency and routine processes—for us logistics planners, a true Eldorado…
► Building structure and equipment: foresight required
- From a logistics perspective, we view a hospital simply as a logistics operating site—with one key distinction: its high-frequency order and supply processes occur partly cyclically and partly unpredictably.
- From a construction perspective, we classify hospitals as complex functional buildings, with spaces tailored room by room to specific functions and equipped with cost-intensive building services and medical technology.
- Due to later changes in use, hospitals undergo renovation measures far too frequently. This makes forward-looking concepts for building structure and equipment all the more important.
- To enable scalable processes and flexible usage concepts, LogistikPlan applies proven planning principles such as modularity and adaptability within its service field of layout planning.
- Facility management also requires foresight: well-chosen room structures and floor coverings can significantly reduce daily cleaning costs later on. (Hospital hygiene will appreciate this as well.)
► Hospital organization of the future: specialized, flexible, digital
- Hospital processes usually take place in very confined spaces—running in parallel with widely differing priorities. Internal and external organizational structures interlock invisibly and are overlaid by countless data flows and informal communication paths.
- Highly specialized treatment and care processes are supplied by complex logistics systems and controlled and billed via digital network services.
- In response to rising cost pressure and shortages of skilled staff in therapy and care, laboratories, and services, health-care organizations are adopting modern approaches to work organization and technology deployment, for example through the introduction of
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