• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.7-16
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• 1996

As surgical technologies advanced, ambulatory surgery was proposed for reduction hospital stay and patient-oriented health care delivery system. And in recent years, ambulatory surgery is also introduced in this country as medical demands expands. This study aims to represent the standards for architectural planning of the ambulatory surgery center in a general hospital according to domestic situations. For this, the present conditions and space programs of 5 general hospitals were investigated and analyzed. This study also aims to represent the unit area proposal of each departmental operation room and the methodology for deciding the number of the operation threatres in Ambulatory Surgery Center.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.7-16
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• 2003

Terminal cancer patients in Korea have increased due to the development of medical technology and the structural change of diseases resulted from life quality improvement. Following this trend, many hospitals are making efforts, such as renovating hospice wards, but architectural criteria are not sufficiently suggested for specialized hospice wards. The purpose of this study is to present the research data to improve the quality of hospice ward in general hospital. Data collecting skills such as drawing documents analysis, interviews, observation were used to examine the condition of hospice ward. And, case study method was used to generate the design data which can be used for the appropriate spatial composition and the area calculation.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.25-34
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to spatial organization feature and area composition of the over 500beds general hospital that will be expected construct in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do area after 2000year. From this study, we can suggest architectural planning for the efficiency operating of emergency medical facilities that can be used as preliminary data. The Spatial organization of emergency medical facilities are categorize into 4 session as medical examination and treatment, diagonosticradiology, staff, public and the others. We can find spatial organization system and area composition that compare area composition of 6 hospital the subject of research in a emergency medical facilities. The result of this study were as follows : spatial distribution of its field, grasping of spatial organization factor and recognize its merits and demerits should be researched in advance. Through this kind of recognizing emergency system, realistic medical local and condition architectural planning for spatial organization will be operate.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.33-41
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• 1995

The purpose of this study is to heighten the reusing rate of hospital making its good image ultimately and giving a feeling of satisfaction to the patients, and to suggest more pleasant and comfortable environment to the wards which the patients are spending 24 hours a day from the view of nurse. The field study was in medical ward of the C University Hospital in Seoul through ethnographic method. The data were collected through observation and interview. On the basis of the results, the ward model for 4 patients was developed so as to be able to have their own area in consideration of privacy and improvement of life level & consciousness level of patients.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.43-51
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• 1995

Nurses play a great role in the nursing unit and their behaviour should be evaluated in order to find user needs in terms of ward design of general hospital. This study aims to investigate the ways in which nurses activities and traffic occur in real behaviour setting of five general hospitals. For that purpose, intensive field survey was undertook to measure the nurses' attitudes and their activities were observed in the day time for 8 hours.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.6 no.11
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• pp.17-24
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• 2000

Recently According to the development of the medical technology and medical machine, People's concern with health promotion has improved. Futhermore, medical consuming pattern has significantly changed, and requires diverse health check-up services. This study represent the standards for the spatial composition and area calculation of the Health Promotion Center according to domestic situations. The present conditions and space programs of 4 general hospital's Health Promotion Centers were investigated and analyzed for this purpose. This study suggest a basic study on the architectural planning of the Health Promotion Center.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.71-78
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to suggest the data Structure System for the architectural planning in ward of general hospital. The important result and advantage of the system such as HcCad-System for design and plan of wards are as follows; At first, the system useful for communication medium and instructional tool for ward planners and designers. Secondly, fast and economical evaluation are obtained through the study of experimental simulation. Finally as a new tool in architectural field, system helps to enhance the relationship between computer and human.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.7-14
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• 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to find out week and strong aspects in LEED categories based on achieved scores earned by LEED-HC(Healthcare) v.2009. Methods: The LEED-HC scorecards of 88 healthcare projects are analyzed. The analysis are focused on relationship between achieved scores, LEED categories and achieved levels. This relationship was presented by graphs and charts. Results: 1) Compare to LEED-NC, in LEED-HC, sub-categories related to public health are added. The scores are added in Energy Atmosphere and Indoor Environmental Quality. 2) Achieve scores in Sustainable Site are high and one in Energy Atmosphere and Indoor Environmental Quality are low at all levels. 3) Scores which was lost in Energy Atmosphere are recovered in Material Resource and Sustainable Site in order to keep its level. 4) Since most of scores in Energy Atmosphere are under EAc1 Optimize energy performance sub-categories, it is important to achieve more score in Optimize Energy Performance Sub-Categories to gain a higher level. Even if LEED-HC has more score in Energy Atmosphere, this is a hard to achieve scores in that categories. It is important to review Energy Atmosphere categories and its points for improvement. Implications: This study will provide basic database in order to establish Korean green building rating system for hospital.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2012

In this study, the status of healthcare infrastructure in foreign countries was investigated for a Korean healthcare business planning to expand its business to these countries. Countries selected and surveyed are China, India, Indonesia, and the Middle East. When the surveyors visited the hospitals, the hospital facilities were investigated and medical professionals were interviewed to scrutinize the healthcare conditions in the hospitals. Also studied are healthcare related laws, trend of healthcare policies, hospital operations, medical staffing, and global healthcare service providers. Korea has expanded their overseas healthcare market only to small-sized hospitals and clinics. In order to keep up with global market expansion in the healthcare domain, strategic marketing is required. Especially, the most important key for overseas marketing is to make a synergizing system among hospitals, construction companies, medical equipment providers and IT solution providers. For the next step, the in-depth study will be conducted through real projects in the target countries per type of business.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2021

Purpose: To presenting basic data for the spatial composition required when planning the future department of rehabilitation medicine by analyzing the spatial composition of the location, size, area, and plan type of the rehabilitation department of the Regional Public Hospital. Methods: 3 Methods have been used in this paper. 1) Analyzing drawings to derive the net floor area of each room. 2) A literature survey about rehabilitation healthcare system. 3) Observation survey for user circulation analysis. Results: 1) Rehabilitation is an overall process of treatment that helps to play a role as an individual in society, away from the perspective of treating physical damage. The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the local medical center must provide rehabilitation medical services corresponding to the recovery and maintenance period for community rehabilitation. 2) The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine can be classified into diagnostics area, examination area, treatment area, management area, and interface area based on the rehabilitation treatment process. Implication: It can be used as basic data when planning related facilities by analyzing the characteristics of the space plan of the required room according to the relationship between activities, movement lines, and operation plans based on user behavior.