Abstract
The design of a healthcare facility is one of the most challenging tasks
because of the complexity associated with these facilities. The quality
of healthcare is the primary objective of the healthcare facility. The
design of healthcare facilities and their environments directly
influence the facility’s productivity, the economic performance of the
organisation, the experienced clinical outcomes in the hospital, patient
and staff satisfaction, just to mention a few. The design of a
healthcare facility is essential for ensuring a serene healing
environment for the patients, which in turn influences their healing
rates, reduces the amount of time spent in the facilities, and impacts
their level of satisfaction with the care provided. In this study, the
collected standards were weighted using the entropy theory as a
weighting method for evaluating different departments in various
hospitals. In addition, the layout score has been measured using the
adjacent theory as one of the graph heuristic methods to be aware of the
department or the whole hospital can be redesigned to meet international
standards. The evaluation methodology is a step in the redesign process
to improve the current hospital to meet international standards. The
analysis of the results that our methodologies are applied in one
selected hospital in Egypt reflects the average of the satisfied
standards as 43%, standards that can be satisfied 24%, not applicable
standards 34% and the average layout score is 25%.