ADVICE: Setting Up a Clinic
QUESTION:
How to make a budget plan for a new hospital clinic?
I am doing a project for school and I need to make up a budget plan for the clinic we are presenting.
REPLY:
If I was assigned to writing up a budget, I'd try doing research on other clinics to see what their general budgets.
They may not be forthcoming with the information or specifics, but you might find someone friendly enough in the Accounting Department that might be able to give you ballpark figures if you can submit a letter from your professor with contact information verifying that this is indeed a school project.
In the mean time, do research on other clinics and find out what the various departments are: Neo-Natal, Geriatic, Cancer Patient, Emergency Room, etc. That will give you a structure to work within so you can determine what the monthly and annual budget for each of the departments would be.
Find out how many doctors, nurses, and receptionists are going to be on staff. If you visit CareerBuilders.com or a job employment site, they'll be able to give you a ballpark figure of the annual salaries for each type. You can then use that as a model in determining a budget for the staff based off of the number of each type you'll have.
You'll have to account for computer equipment, medical supplies, medical equipment, and janitorial equipment.
If this is a newly built clinic, you'll have to do research on what it would cost to build from scratch. If this a conversion of a building that is already set up, you can go by that.
If you have a physical building, you can visit the building or get blueprints of the building layout. With the layout of the building, you can use the Physical Rooms to map out what rooms are going to be used for what.
If you need some help, you may be able to go online to someplacel ike Craigslist.org and post an ad for your project requesting for help and suggestions from people who are in the nursing or medical field that have experience. They'll be able to tell you what is needed to run a clinic.
If you have a team of people helping you, have them do research and find individuals who work in the medical field that would be able to provide advice.
If you have the funding or can find someone to donate a web site for you, set up a web site that will allow you to post all your information regarding the project. Keep classified information off the public or front end site. If you keep track of your information and show that there's progress, you may be able to find sponsorship.
You may be able to find Medical Web Sites that provide Medical Supplies. If you can get in contact with a Supplier and inform them of your project, they may be able to provide you on general specs for current clients they have.
Once again, having an offical web site will smooth or grease the wheels when it comes to soliciting information. If you try to get it on your own, it's possible, but you'll have to verify with each person that you're legitimate and that it's not some prank call or someone wasting their time. If you have an actual web site up, you can refer people to your site to show them that it is indeed a real project.
By putting the web site up that includes the contact information of your professor or the individual who gave you this project, they'll be able to confirm what you're doing.
Don't forget to include a Time Line as to when certain tasks should be completed when setting up this clinic. Set up priorities as to what tasks deserve the most immediate attention to getting this clinic going.
How to make a budget plan for a new hospital clinic?
I am doing a project for school and I need to make up a budget plan for the clinic we are presenting.
REPLY:
If I was assigned to writing up a budget, I'd try doing research on other clinics to see what their general budgets.
They may not be forthcoming with the information or specifics, but you might find someone friendly enough in the Accounting Department that might be able to give you ballpark figures if you can submit a letter from your professor with contact information verifying that this is indeed a school project.
In the mean time, do research on other clinics and find out what the various departments are: Neo-Natal, Geriatic, Cancer Patient, Emergency Room, etc. That will give you a structure to work within so you can determine what the monthly and annual budget for each of the departments would be.
Find out how many doctors, nurses, and receptionists are going to be on staff. If you visit CareerBuilders.com or a job employment site, they'll be able to give you a ballpark figure of the annual salaries for each type. You can then use that as a model in determining a budget for the staff based off of the number of each type you'll have.
You'll have to account for computer equipment, medical supplies, medical equipment, and janitorial equipment.
If this is a newly built clinic, you'll have to do research on what it would cost to build from scratch. If this a conversion of a building that is already set up, you can go by that.
If you have a physical building, you can visit the building or get blueprints of the building layout. With the layout of the building, you can use the Physical Rooms to map out what rooms are going to be used for what.
If you need some help, you may be able to go online to someplacel ike Craigslist.org and post an ad for your project requesting for help and suggestions from people who are in the nursing or medical field that have experience. They'll be able to tell you what is needed to run a clinic.
If you have a team of people helping you, have them do research and find individuals who work in the medical field that would be able to provide advice.
If you have the funding or can find someone to donate a web site for you, set up a web site that will allow you to post all your information regarding the project. Keep classified information off the public or front end site. If you keep track of your information and show that there's progress, you may be able to find sponsorship.
You may be able to find Medical Web Sites that provide Medical Supplies. If you can get in contact with a Supplier and inform them of your project, they may be able to provide you on general specs for current clients they have.
Once again, having an offical web site will smooth or grease the wheels when it comes to soliciting information. If you try to get it on your own, it's possible, but you'll have to verify with each person that you're legitimate and that it's not some prank call or someone wasting their time. If you have an actual web site up, you can refer people to your site to show them that it is indeed a real project.
By putting the web site up that includes the contact information of your professor or the individual who gave you this project, they'll be able to confirm what you're doing.
Don't forget to include a Time Line as to when certain tasks should be completed when setting up this clinic. Set up priorities as to what tasks deserve the most immediate attention to getting this clinic going.