Hospital Design Planning Workbook: Stocking your new hospital

Here's what you'll need to think about including in your new facility. To download a PDF workbook document that includes this checklist, click here.

Furnishings and equipment

Waiting room

• Chairs or benches

• Brochure display stand

• Table lamps

• End tables

• Wastebasket

• Recycle bins

• Books for kids

• Magazines and magazine rack

• Computer with patient education CD-ROM

• Coffee station

• Printer for informational handouts

• Client education handouts

• Computer table

• Workstation chair

• Courtesy phone

• Artwork

• Plants

• Water cooler

• Air purifier

Front office

• Chairs

• Clock

• Computers (minimum of two)

• Printer, copier, scanner, and fax machine

• Toner cartridges for copier and fax machine

• Credit card machine

• Paper rolls for credit card machine

• Paper shredder

• Phones

• Phone books

• Appointment book or scheduling software

• Business card holder

• Calculators

• Clipboards

• Pencils

• Electric pencil sharpener

• Pens

• Two- and three-hole punch

• Postage stamps or meter

• Boxes of tissues

• Petty cash box

• Locking drawer for each person who handles cash

• Fire extinguisher

• Wastebasket

• Recycle bins

Bathroom

• Paper towels

• Towel dispenser

• Soap

• Soap dispenser

• Toilet paper

• Toilet brush

Employee lounge

• Chairs

• Table

• Wastebasket

• Recycle bins

• Microwave oven

• Coffee maker

• Water cooler

• Refrigerator

• Coat rack

Doctor's office

• Desk with locking drawer

• Pens

• Pencils

• Desk lamp

• Executive desk chair

• Side chairs

• Paging equipment

• Computer equipped with practice management software

• Printer

• File cabinet

• Bookcases

• Coat hook for door

• Fire safe or fireproof cabinet

• Pictures

• Plants

• Wastebasket

• Recycle bins

Exam rooms

• Desktop computer central to all exam rooms

• Exam tables

• Rolling chairs or stools

• Side chairs

• Dog treats

• Magazines

• Cabinets

• Waste receptacles

• Chart holders

• Sharps containers

• Nail trimmers

• Stethoscopes

• Styptic powder or pencils

• Reflex hammer

• Eye wash

• Cotton-tip applicators

• Assorted gauze

• Alcohol

• Lubricating jelly

• Storage jars

• Gloves

• Feline scale

• Small exotics or gram scale

• Otoscope

• Otoscope cones

• Ophthalmoscope

• Indirect viewing lens

• Radiography view box

• Exam lights

• Binocular head loupe magnifier

• Thermometers

• Video otoscope

• Schirmer tear tests

• Fluorescein dye

• Assorted syringes

• Penlights

• Anatomic models and posters

Comfort or consultation room

• Sofa

• End tables

• Educational videos or DVDs

• Reading material

• Bookshelf

• Television and DVD player

• Boxes of tissues

• Lamps

Treatment area, pack prep, and lab

• Rolling stools

• Side chairs

• Refrigerator for samples

• Walk-on scale

• Wet table

• Waste disposal container (general)

• Waste disposal container

• (infectious)

• Dental unit: scaler, drill, polisher

• Dental instruments and supplies

• Safety goggles

• Endoscope and supplies

• Blood pressure monitor

• Portable O2 unit

• Electrocardiograph

• Test tube rack

• Hematology, chemistry, and coagulation analyzers

• Centrifuge

• Hemocytometer

• Unopettes

• Manual cell counter

• Calculator

• Timer

• Ultrasound machine and supplies

• Refractometer

• Glucometer

• Radiography machine and film cassettes or digital radiography equipment

• Lead gloves and aprons

• Patient positioning devices

• Radiograph developing supplies

• Gloves

• Masks

• First aid kit

• Crash cart

• Resuscitation bag

• Clippers

• Tonometer

• Ear lavage equipment

• Tongue depressors

• Thermometers

• Splinting equipment

• Culture media

• Diagnostic reagent strips

• Microscope

• Microscope slides, coverslips, stains, and holders

• Bacterial incubator

• Inoculation loops

• Lab mailing supplies

• Sterility indicators

• Laryngoscopes

• Biopsy jars

• Formalin

• Ethylene glycol test kit

• FeLV/FIV test kits

• Heartworm tests

• Elizabethan collars

• Muzzles

• Autoclave and trays

• Autoclave tape

• Ultrasonic cleaner

• Endotracheal tubes, stylets, and cleaning brush

• Endotracheal tube rack

• Feeding tubes

• Chest tubes

• Tracheostomy tubes

• Stomach tubes

• Stomach tube speculum

• IV fluid warmer

• IV poles and stands

• Fecalizer, centrifuge, and flotation solution

• Fecal loops, sample collection containers

• Nonabsorbent cat litter

• Urine collection containers

• Activated charcoal

• Gastric lavage supplies

• Barium

• Wood's lamp

• Surgical pack wraps

• Surgical caps, masks, gowns, and gloves

• Disinfectants

• Surgical scrub brushes and soak trays

• Surgical instrument cleaner

• Suture scissors

• Staple removal forceps

• Vaginal speculum

Surgery

• Surgical blades

• Surgical instruments

• Scrub sink

• Surgical drapes and towels

• Heated surgery table

• Surgical ties

• Portable suction unit

• Suction hoses and tips

• Crash cart

• Electrocardiograph

• Water-circulating or forced-air heating blankets

• SpO2 pulse oximeter

• ETCO2 monitor

• Body temperature monitor

• Blood pressure monitor

• Suture material and needles

• Tissue adhesive

• Skin stapler

• Esophageal stethoscopes

• Anesthesia machine and supplies

• Respirometer

• Anesthesia masks

• Waste gas evacuation system

• Infusion pumps

• Syringe pump

• Induction chamber

• Mayo stand

• Surgical lights

• Lacrimal cannulas

• Cautery unit

• CO2 surgical laser

• Radiosurgical unit

Hospital ward

• Nasal oxygen cannula, oxygen hood, humidifier, or oxygen cage

• Oxygen flowmeter

• Water-circulating or forced-air heating blankets

• Towels

• Nebulizer

• Incubator

• Cages

• Litter pans

• Food and water bowls

• Washer and dryer

• Grooming tub and dryer

• Towels and blankets

• Catch pole

• Restraint bags or cages

Pharmacy

• Pill splitters

• Alcohol containers to hold pill splitters

• Pill counting trays

• Pill crusher

• Prescription labels and printer

• Vials and bottles

• Pill guns

Other furnishings/equipment

• Cleaning supplies for entire clinic

• Controlled substance safe

• Security system

• Vacuum cleaner

Office supplies

• File folders

• File folder labels, white

• Label maker

• Alphabetical or numerical tabs and year tabs

• "Pay at time of service" sign

• "Returned check policy" sign

• Phone message pads

• Scratch pads

• Standard-lined note pads

• Binders

• Sticky notes, large and small

• Cellophane tape

• Packing tape

• Staplers

• Paper clips, large and small

• Copier paper

• Scissors

• Glue sticks

• Desk calendars

• Pens

• Pencils

• Highlighters

• Erasers

• Dictionary

• Medical dictionary

• Medical and surgery reference library

• Vertical chart holders

• Large manila envelopes

• Letter envelopes

• Large rubber bands

• Return-address stamp

• Desk organizers

• "In" and "out" bins

• Time cards/clock or computerized version

Printed materials

• Letterhead stationery

• Letterhead envelopes

• Business cards

• Thank-you notes

• Practice brochure

• Promotional materials

• New patient information forms

• New patient medical history forms

• Prescription pads

Clinic supplies

• Insulin syringes

• Syringes (1, 3, 6, 12, 20, and 60 cc, plus 60 cc with catheter tip)

• Needles (25, 22, 20, and 18 gauge)

• Intraosseous needles

• Spinal needles

• Various biopsy needles

• Stick pole syringe

• Skin punch biopsy

• Tru-cut biopsy needles

• Sterile water, 500-ml bottles

• Sterile saline for injection

• Sterile saline for irrigation, six 250-ml bottles

• Urinary catheters

• Butterfly catheters

• Urinalysis tubes

• Jugular catheters

• Bulb syringe

• Blood transfusion kits

• IV infusion pumps

• Primary IV sets, secondary IV sets, and extension sets

• IV catheters (24, 22, 20, and 18 gauge)

• IV fluids (e.g., LRS, Normosol-R, sodium chloride, D5W)

• Male adapter plugs

• Penrose drains

• Porous tape

• Elastic tape

• Hematocrit tubes

• Alcohol wipes

• Safety goggles

• Wash bottles

• Bandages

• Gauze

• Stretch gauze

• Chlorhexidine

• Povidone-iodine

• Hydrogen peroxide

• Blood collection vials

• Clotting tubes

• Separation tubes

• Pipettes

• Sterile culture tubes and swabs

• Formalin jars

• Casting materials

• Lint rollers

• Roll cotton

• Stockinette

• Telfa pads

• Tourniquets

• Splints

• Wood?s lamp

The complete package:

Furnishings and equipment

     Waiting room

     Front office

     Bathroom

     Employee lounge

     Doctor's office

     Exam rooms and comfort/consultation room

     Treatment area, pack prep, and lab

     Surgery

     Hospital ward

     Pharmacy and other furnishings/equipment

Office supplies and printed materials

Clinic supplies