Diploma in Healthcare and Lean Hospital Management (Live/Online)

INTRODUCTION

Health and the Healthcare Systems that ensure delivery of quality healthcare are among the priorities of every nation. Healthcare Systems start from basic peripheral facilities and culminate in central state-of-the-art medical institutions. Hospitals are the most specialized, tertiary care institutions in any properly tiered Healthcare Delivery System.

This Diploma will also improve career prospects for existing professionals. Participants exposed for the first time to the subject will acquire a sound basic knowledge of how Hospitals work. The Diploma will also serve as a base for acquiring higher qualifications in Health & Hospital Management.

OBJECTIVES

• Enable participants to gain an in-depth knowledge Healthcare System in Pakistan
• Detailed understanding of Hospitals systems
• Develop better understanding of all the departments and their coordination requirements

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Health and the Healthcare System: Models, Systems and the National Perspective
2. Primary Healthcare
3. Hospitals: Historical Background, Types and Categories and Models of the Future
4. Facilities Design: Functional Adjacencies in Hospital Buildings
5. Managing Patient Care Areas: Clinics, Wards, ORs, CSSD, Laboratory, Imaging Services, Delivery suites, ICUs, etc.
6. Managing Support Services: Security, Dietary Services, Housekeeping and Laundry, Transport, Facilities Engineering Services, etc.
7. Quality Assurance in Hospitals
8. Medical Informatics: Hospital Management Information Systems and “the Paperless Hospital”
9. Procurement, Supplies and Inventory Management in Hospitals
10. Managing Human Resources: Staffing Levels, Training, Assessments, Compensation, etc.
11. Hospital Waste Management

METHODOLOGY

Lecture, group discussion and assignments, case studies, videos, and guest speaker’s sessions.

PROGRAM DURATION/DAYS

The program is of four-month duration. On-Line Classes will be held on Sundays (10:00 am to 01:00 pm).