Description
Team Colorado's Hotel2Hospital (H2H) Playbook describes the "just-in-time" conversion of a mid-size hotel into an Alternate Care Facility (ACF) capable of hospital-level care as a response to a large medical surge event. The H2H Playbook outlines how to convert any hotel with a minimum of 150 rooms into an ACF in 2-4 weeks and details considerations for operating the ACF as a "wing" of a hospital for 3-4 months.
To begin, the H2H Playbook outlines the rationale for using a hotel as an ACF and hotel selection criteria for two hotel types: a mid-size hotel and large conference hotel.
After a hotel is selected, the H2H Playbook recommends strategies to manage the hotel conversion within a hospital's existing incident management framework and determine how to use, augment, and add to existing hotel infrastructure to create a hospital-like care setting. The H2H Playbook provides: an approach for converting hotel rooms into patient care rooms for both intensive care and medical/surgical patients; a list of clinical and non-clinical equipment; an estimation of staff numbers and types; considerations for how to establish clinical services such as Lab, Pharmacy, and Radiology; and suggestions for providing support services such as food services, laundry, environmental services, and security in a hotel. Additionally, the H2H Playbook includes architectural drawings, engineering plans, checklists, and other resources to support hotel conversion.
Finally, the H2H Playbook offers recommendations for operating the H2H as a "wing" of the Partner Hospital to include patient admission, bed assignment, and expanding existing hospital services and the electronic medical record to include the H2H.
In addition to the H2H Playbook, Team Colorado also created an H2H Estimator Tool that estimates H2H patient beds, staffing needs, equipment costs, and construction costs by inputting certain characteristics; an H2H Conversion Cost Sheet with estimated conversion costs for both hotel types; and an Emergency Response Plan Template that can be customized for the H2H.