Hospital Architecture's Environmental Quality — Hospital Design in the Post-COVID Era

In recent years, as the demand for quality medical environments has surged, modern hospital architectural design has increasingly focused on shaping environmental quality while continuously enhancing medical standards. Particularly following the outbreak of COVID-19, the environmental quality of hospital buildings has garnered widespread social attention. Below, I offer some insights on the safety of hospital construction and the optimization of medical architectural planning and design, both crucial for shaping hospital environments in the post-pandemic era.

Section 1: Safety in Hospital Design

The safety of hospital design primarily covers two aspects: enhancing the safety of the campus environment and optimizing the medical process for infectious disease treatment.

Enhancing the safety of the campus environment is a crucial method for reducing cross-infection of diseases. There are two main approaches to improving campus safety: reducing the gathering of personnel within the hospital and increasing technical protection in susceptible areas. Popularizing and promoting the appointment registration system, enhancing pre-examination triage capabilities, and optimizing waiting areas can effectively reduce personnel gatherings; optimizing the air flow within the buildings and prioritizing high-purity toilet fixtures are effective means to strengthen technical protection measures in susceptible areas.

② To optimize the medical process for infectious disease treatment, we mainly focus on two approaches: improving the settings of functional rooms related to infectious disease medical processes, and enhancing the safety of infection disease area zoning and streamline design. This is achieved by streamlining the entire medical service process, refining the settings of functional rooms related to infectious disease medical processes, and optimizing the clean and contaminated partitioning and streamline design within the infection disease area.

Optimizing Medical Building Design and Planning

To optimize the planning and design of medical buildings, it is necessary to allocate dedicated isolation medical areas and adopt a combination of dispersed and centralized layouts. Based on the existing divisions for medical, logistics, research, and teaching, consider setting up isolation medical areas or public health emergency response zones in special circumstances. Ensure the supply of water, electricity, and heating, as well as the preparation for laundry, disinfection, and waste treatment, are all in place during the planning phase. Implement a model with multiple specialty centers or medical centers, equipped with corresponding medical resources, including outpatient, medical technology, and inpatient care. Treat patients for a specific condition within a single building, simplifying the medical process, shortening treatment time, and reducing the risk of cross-infection.