Regional planning of hospital facilities for children
A. F. North Jr, P. Wilkinson and T. K. Oliver Jr
The quest for constraint of health care costs has combined with the quest
for better distribution of specialized child health services to emphasize
the need for facility planning that considers the needs and resources of an
entire region. This article describes the guidelines derived through one
such planning effort and the process through which they were derived. The
process can, we believe, be replicated or modified for planning pediatric
hospital facilities or other health care facilities in other regions of the
country.
