Hospitals
Hospitals are health care institutions that have an organized medical and other professional staff, and inpatient facilities, and deliver services 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. They offer a varying range of acute, convalescent and terminal care using diagnostic and curative services.
Hospitals need to be organized around people’s needs, working closely with other health and social care services and contributing to strengthening primary health care (PHC) and public health services, to substantially contribute to Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Health care facilities
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities are fundamental for the provision of quality, people-centered care. Such services also reduce health care-related infections, increase trust and uptake of services, increase efficiency and decrease cost of service delivery and improve staff morale. All major initiatives to improve global health depend on basic WASH services in health care facilities.
Health care
Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. Estimates show that in developed countries as many as one in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care.
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Expenditures
36%of total health care expenditures account for hospital infrastructure, medical equipment and vehicles.
More about medical equipmentFacilities
35%of health care facilities do not have water and soap for hand-washing.
More about WASH in health care facilitiesHospitals in Health Systems
Role in Health Systems
- Health-promoting hospitals
- Health systems
- Hospital resilience and recovery
- Mass casuality management systems
- Strengthening health systems
- Universal health coverage
Planning
- Health financing: OneHealth tool
- Health workforce requirements for the SDGs
- Integrated people-centered care
District health
Infrastructure and technologies
Infrastructure
- Energy for hospitals
- Health systems recovery
- Hospitals security, protection and violence
- Safe hospitals
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Sustainable hospitals
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Technologies
Users and communities
Patient engagement
Meeting-specific requirements
Clinical services
Units
Quality and safety
Checklists
Management and organisation
General management
- Health workforce management
- Safe Hospital Initiative: Hospital emergency risk management
- Hospital security: protection of staff, patients and facilities
Capacity building of managers
Measurement and statistics
Data collection
- Service availability and readiness assessment (SARA)
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Surgery situation analysis tool
pdf, 323kb - Hospital performance assessment
Classifications and indicators
Statistics
Recent publications
- Infection prevention
- Implementing palliative care
- Prevention of surgical site infection
- Protecting Health Care Key Recommendations (ICRC)
- Devices for maternal, newborn, and child health
- Ensuring the Preparedness and Security of Health-Care Facilities in Armed Conflict
- Health financing for universal health coverage
- Safe management of health care wastes
- Pocket book of hospital care for children
Partners
- International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE)
- International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)
- International Hospital Federation (IHF)
- International Union of Architects (UIA)
- Performance Assessment tool for Quality Improvement for Hospitals
- THET Partnership for Global Health