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When Orlando’s Arnold Palmer Hospital began plans to create a new 273-bed, 11-story
hospital across the street from its existing facility, which was bursting at the seams in terms of
capacity, a massive planning process began. The $100 million building, opened in 2006, was
long overdue, according to Executive Director Kathy Swanson: “We started Arnold Palmer
Hospital in 1989, with a mission to provide quality services for children and women, in a
comforting, family-friendly environment. Since then we have served well over 1.5 million women
and children and now deliver more than 12,000 babies a year. By 2001, we simply ran out of
room, and it was time for us to grow.”

Discussion Questions
1. Identify the many variables that a hospital needs to consider in layout design.
2. What are the advantages of the circular pod design over the traditional linear hallway layout
found in most hospitals?
3. Figure 9.22 illustrates a sample linear hallway layout. During a period of random observation,
Nurse Thomas Smith’s day includes 6 trips from the nursing station to each of the 12 patient
rooms (back and forth), 20 trips to the medical supply room, 5 trips to the break room, and 12
trips to the linen supply room. What is his total distance traveled in miles?
4. Figure 9.23 illustrates an architect’s drawing of Arnold Palmer Hospital’s new circular pod
system. If nurse Susan Jones’s day includes 7 trips from the nursing pod to each of the 12
rooms (back and forth), 20 trips to central medical supply, 6 trips to the break room, and 12 tips
to the pod linen supply, how many miles does she walk during her shift? What are the
differences in the travel times between the two nurses for this random day?
5. The concept of services capes is discussed in this chapter. Describe why this is so important
at Arnold Palmer Hospital and give examples of its use in layout design.

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