The hospital is an integral part of a social and medical organization, the function of which is to provide for the population complete health care, both curative and preventive, and whose outpatient services reach out to the family and its home environment; the hospital is also a centre for training of health workers and bio-social research. Based on study of the available healthcare infrastructure in the area and relevant data from census report and demographic surveys a need was felt to construct a state of the art healthcare centre for providing high quality patient care. The architect’s brief is formulated for a health care centre in the suburbs of a tier two city and has been made with the aim of establishing guidelines that will help the architects and engineers in designing and constructing a state of the art health care facility for provision of quality patient care.
