title: MHRP, a model for hospital resource planning.
abstract: This paper describes and illustrates the use of the Model for Hospital Resource Planning (MHRP), a system designed as a tool to assist hospital planners. As Master Planning should serve the overall objectives of Hospital Strategic Planning, the MHRP links them by including hospital objectives and strategies in the forecasting of facility requirements for the future. By integrating projections and trends with all relevant opinions and judgements in each phase of the process, MHRP permits to adapt future facilities to short term and long term hospital decisions for the future, being proactive rather than reactive. The main benefit of MHRP system is that discussions about possible policies or strategies of the hospital in the context of the overall hospital environment are automatically directed to considerations of their implications for future resource requirements of the centre.
authors.affiliation: Spanish Society of Directors and Managers of Hospitals and Health Planning, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cañis
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lamarca
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D004465:Economic Competition; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000379:methods*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D013030:Spain