No-frills Surgical center design renovation is your passport to patient satisfaction and safety. As an ambulatory surgical center (ASC) owner, it’s your responsibility to ensure safety to all your patients under your care. The best way to prevent infection and disease is to revamp some surgical center design elements with the help of an experienced medical construction expert.
Recently, Medical Construction and Design magazine featured an informative article describing ways to improve hygiene and safety in your surgical center through design. Here’s a brief recap on the news post, which can be found here: All About the Flow: Improvements for surgical center sterile processing
Process-driven surgical center design
To run a successful multi-specialty ambulatory surgical center, it’s important to focus on efficiency and flexibility as your top priorities. However, this should not be the case when designing and building (or renovating) your medical space. To reduce risks, save money on overhead, and deliver good quality patient care, your construction goal should be to create specific room layouts that are dedicated to singular procedures, including a sterile processing module for cleaning surgical instruments and other equipment.Improve work flow
One of the biggest errors that occur in ASC’s is the crossing of processing paths between medical instruments. This can be remedied by either enhancing your current architectural layout with some minor renovations or by creating a new design scheme that will directly impact efficient workflow.- To prevent cross-contamination, you should construct a physical barrier separating each phase of surgical treatment.
- Instruments used for eye surgery and non-ophthalmologic surgery require separate sterilization units for sorting, cleaning and storage.
- Clean-up sinks should be positioned in a way to prevent splashing of contaminated water, one of the greatest risks of infection.