Essentials of hospital planning and administration

Explore the art and science of hospital administration, from planning and staffing to budgeting and evaluation, and learn to lead, coordinate, and improve patient experience while balancing costs and resources.

Explore hospital safety by defining sentinel events, classifying near misses and adverse events, and strengthening leadership, teamwork, open culture, and robust quality assurance.

Develop an equipment management plan from selection to maintenance, with preventive routines, incident reporting, and staff safety measures to protect patients and staff.

Manage biomedical waste and worker safety by implementing source segregation, color coded disposal, and needle stick injury guidelines, while complying with BMW rules, pollution acts, and incident reporting procedures.

Defines disaster and disaster management, classifies disasters into natural and man-made and sudden or slow onset, and explains preparedness, evacuation, mitigation, and institutional frameworks in India.

Explore hospital disaster management by forming a disaster management committee, building a concise plan, establishing triage areas and a central command, and coordinating communications, resources, and casualty flow.

Explore operational excellence in hospital planning from admission through discharge, using key performance indicators like average length of stay and occupancy rate to optimize patient flow and capacity.