Highcare specializes in building “flush sanitary” outpatient treatment rooms with the box in box systems. Where the building is the outside box and the treatment room is the inside box. The building materials used fit within the documented cGMP quality assurance system.
The demand for treatment and operating rooms in the private sector has increased significantly. It is expected in this way to reduce waiting times for patients who need to undergo relatively minor treatment.
Outpatient clinic design
Examples of treatment centers are ophthalmology, oral surgery, cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery, but also in general practitioner centers as more and more responsibility is placed on the general practitioner, small surgical procedures are increasingly being performed in-house. The biggest advantage is that infections with hospital bacteria rarely occur in these small surgery centers. Highcare builds this type of compact room for minor surgical procedures. What is remarkable about building an outpatient clinic with these types of units is that they can take place without a practice actually having to close for them. Highcare specializes in this way of building with IFD technology.
Operating rooms
In an operating room, sterility should be pursued as much as possible. The key tools in this regard are air treatment and the use of inert materials in a “flush and sanitary” environment. Highcare builds metal dust-free rooms and supplies air technology with a strong flushing effect.
Operating room air quality can be represented by three related indicators:
- the number of colony-forming units (CFU) per m3 of circulating air
- the sedimentation rate of bacteria on surfaces, expressed in KVE/m2/hour or in KVE/dm2/hour (NEN-EN-ISO 14698-1)
- the number of particles in the circulating air, expressed in particles/m3, bacteria-bearing or not, and subdivided by size of particles
A modern operating room is cooled or heated via thermal radiation panels in the ceiling. Above the operating table, purified air is introduced with HEPA filters and extracted in two places: halfway up the wall and at plinth level with air slots. This creates a synergistic effect and a healthy working environment. The design of the operating room is entirely aimed at reducing the risk of contamination, contamination and danger of infection and that according to the latest cGMP. In doing so, Highcare takes into account the working conditions of the staff.
Highcare also realizes projects in existing environments. According to the “box in box” system, units are integrated into new as well as existing buildings with limited noise and dust nuisance. The clean room, the indoor box, is placed separately in the building. It functions completely “stand alone” according to a “plug and play” system. The outside box, an indoor space, protects the cleanroom. In this way, many applications and environments are conceivable, whether in an existing hospital, a factory building or an existing laboratory.