Facilities department in a health facility

Facility Departments

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InstitutionFacility departments

Facilities department in a health facility is the department that is charged with the responsibility of ensuring that the design, planning, operation, construction, and maintenance of health care facilities, assets and grounds facilitate administrative, research and treatment activities of a health care facility while continually sustaining a balance between technical and financial challenges its faces. The facilities management department is one that is responsible for the overall physical development and maintenance of the health care centre while still ensuring that that the institution can provide a sustainable environment that promotes its basic duty of treating and facilitating the recovery of patients. The facility departments in a health care centre is handled by a team of facility managers, which is headed by a department manager, that have sufficient knowledge on asset management as well as an informed background on medical issues and the provision of these services hence they know best how to maximally utilise the available resources while still growing its profit margins. (Cotts, 1999)

Interview Questions for the department’s manager

Has the department managed to handle all its roles adequately in the past period of twelve month with minimal or no complaints from the staff, visitors or patients? Does the department focus on continuous innovation and development within the health facility? Is the management body of the health facility supportive of the department’s initiatives and how well has they succeeded and showed good results? How good are the public relations and is there a customer based quality program that ensures that clients get the best of services from both the facilities and staff?

Personal thoughts and analysis

It is of essence that any enterprise or institution sustains a functional facility department for it to run successfully and also be ranked among the top in its sector. Facility management enhances the competitiveness of the health care facility in a bid to reduce the costs incurred in running it and ultimately adding value to the core business of the clients, who in this case are clients. Any facility department ought to be dynamic and quick to adopt changes that are essential in maintaining a successful health care centre. (Rondeau et al, 2006)

References

Cotts, D. G. (1999). The facility management handbook. New York [u.a.: AMACOM

Rondeau, E. P., Brown, R. K., & Lapides, P. D. (2006). Facility management. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons.