Construction of Health Care Facilities. Aspects of Hospital Complexes Master Plan Development - History, Modernity and Expected Future Development
This article discusses the problem of design and construction of health care facilities, emphasizes the relevance of this topic. The quality construction requirements for such objects are important for achieving the final result - effective disease prevention and its treatment. The purpose of this research is to determine the main tendencies of modern hospital complexes development. For this purpose, the history of development of hospital construction in Russia has been analyzed, the main structural and planning problems of the first health facilities have been revealed, the normative requirements of the construction of modern hospitals have been studied. Based on the studied material, the authors came to conclusion that at construction of modern, advanced health care facilities, the tendency to health care facilities enlargement, specialization and amplification its structures prevails, herewith it is obligatory requirements for the separation of “dirty” and “clean” flows, also the requirements of resource saving and efficiency are introduced, the projects of modern “lean clinics” are aimed to offer maximum comfort, both for patients and their relatives; also designers try to make hospital design friendlier.