Strategic facility planning improves capital decision making.
A large, Midwestern IDS undertook a strategic facility-planning process to evaluate its facility portfolio and determine how best to allocate future investments in facility development. The IDS assembled a facility-planning team, which initiated the planning process with a market analysis to determine future market demands and identify service areas that warranted facility expansion. The team then analyzed each of the IDS's facilities from the perspective of uniform capacity measurements, highest and best use compared with needs, building condition and investment-worthiness, and facility growth and site development opportunities. Based on results of the analysis, the strategy adopted entailed, in part, shifting some space from inpatient care to ambulatory care services and demolishing and replacing the 11 percent of facilities deemed to be in the worst condition.
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Christner, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, USA. john.reeve@christnerinc.com
D002201:Capital Expenditures; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000379:methods*; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007449:Investments; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D015146:Midwestern United States; D010934:Planning Techniques