Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- So You Want to Build a Hospital? -- Recent Trends in Health Care -- Overview of Health Care Facilities -- Chapter 2: Project Concept and Mission Statement -- The Whats and Whys of Your Project -- Project Concept -- Mission Statement -- Project Management -- Chapter 3: The Prefeasibility Analysis -- Better to Stop Now than Fail Later -- Conducting the Prefeasibility Analysis -- Key Questions -- Risk Assessment and Management -- Chapter 4: The Feasibility Analysis -- Finding and Clearing a Path to Success -- Conducting the Feasibility Analysis -- Nonfinancial Analysis -- Financial Analysis: No Margin, No Mission -- Will Your Hospital Be Viable? -- A Note on the Business Plan -- Chapter 5: Obtaining Financing -- Keeping Your Fuel Tank Filled -- Keys to Success in Obtaining Financing -- How to Look for Financing -- Types of Financing -- Structure of Financing -- Chapter 6: Marketing Your Facility -- If You Build It, Make Sure They Come -- Developing and Refining Your Marketing Strategy -- Building and Maintaining the Hospital's Reputation -- Chapter 7: Facility Planning and Design -- Time to Start Drawings -- The Facility Design and Planning Team -- Space and Functional Programming -- Conceptual (Preliminary) Design -- Schematic Design -- Consider Future Expansion -- Cost Projections -- Chapter 8: Major Medical Equipment -- Not Everyone Needs an MRI -- A Systematic Approach -- Selection Criteria -- Procurement -- Delivery and Installation -- Training -- Maintenance and Insurance -- Chapter 9: Facility Construction -- As Planned, on Time, and on Budget -- Planning for Construction -- Construction Assignment -- Construction Documentation and Construction Contract -- Insurance Requirements -- Time to Break Ground -- Chapter 10: Facility Opening.

Preparing for the Big Day -- Staffing -- Documentation of Operating Policies and Procedures -- Building Commissioning -- Medical Equipment -- IT System -- Operating Licenses and Permits -- Minor Equipment and Supplies -- Insurance -- The "Hotel Management" -- Training and Support System for Troubleshooting -- Dry Runs -- Opening Day Preparations -- Appendix A: Sample Timeline for Building a Health Care Facility -- Appendix B: Millennium Development Goals -- Appendix C: Types of Public-Private Partnerships -- Appendix D: Health Status Indicators -- Appendix E: Health Facility and Hospital Development -- Appendix F: Evaluating and Selecting Hospital Consultants -- Appendix G: Typical Provider Payment Mechanisms -- Appendix H: Different Forms of Business Ownership -- Appendix I: Sample Project Cost Estimation Summary -- Appendix J: Summary of Project Costs and Financing Plan for a Greenfield Hospital Project -- Appendix K: Sample Format for a Financial Projection Model -- Appendix L: Sample Outline for a Business Plan -- Appendix M: Selected Examples of Financing Sources -- Appendix N: Additional Information on Preferred Shares -- Appendix O: Programming Individual Departments or Services -- Appendix P: Criteria for Selection of Medical Equipment and Products -- Appendix Q: Sample Table for Construction Cost Estimates by Category -- Appendix R: International Competitive Bidding -- Appendix S: Parsons META Hospital and Health Care Construction Pitfalls -- Appendix T: Sample Job Description for Director of Nursing -- Appendix U: 10 Rules for Planning a Hospital -- Suggested Reading -- Table 1.1. Private Health Expenditure as a Share of Total Health Expenditure, 2002 -- Table 1.2. Overview of Facility Types -- Box 1.1. São Luiz Hospital and Maternity, Brazil -- Box 1.2. Prime Cure Group, South Africa -- Box 1.3. Asian Eye Institute, the Philippines.

Box 1.4. Fleury Diagnostic Center, Brazil -- Box 2.1. Excerpts from Sample Mission Statements -- Box 3.1. Challenges of Catchment and Competition -- Box 3.2. Protecting Your Business through Insurance -- Box 4.1. Accreditation of Health Care Organizations: JCAHO and JCI -- Box 4.2. The Importance of Design Functionality -- Box 4.3. Physician Shortage Limits Services -- Box 5.1. Dealing with Foreign Exchange Risk -- Box 6.1. Unique Characteristics of the Health Care Market -- Box 6.2. A Marketing Innovation: Franco-Vietnamese Hospital's Medical Card -- Box 6.3. Targeted Marketing Efforts: The Apollo Hospitals Group -- Box 8.1. ECRI: Advisory Services on Health Care Technology -- Box 8.2. Leasing Medical Equipment: One Hospital's Experience -- Box 8.3. Faulty Packaging Delays Delivery -- Box 9.1. Parsons META: Advisory Services on Development of Health Care Facilities -- Box 9.2. Saving on Costs through Construction Management -- Box 10.1. Pareto Analysis and Inventory Management -- Box 10.2. 10 Common Mistakes to Anticipate and Avoid -- Box 10.3. A Success Story: The Opening of Reddington Hospital -- Figure Project Management: Establishing a Private Health Care Facility -- Figure Step-by-Step Approach to Planning, Procurement, and Management of Medical Equipment.