The construction of the Hospital Authority Supporting Services Centre (HASSC) is under Stage 1 of phase 2 development of the North Lantau Hospital (NLTH) project, and will provide laundry, catering, PPE and linen storage, and data centre services to support the NLTH and other public hospitals.
HASSC is located next to the NLTH. The HASSC building will comprise the following hospital supporting service facilities
- a central laundry centre;
- a central food production unit (CPU) for providing patient food service;
- an information technology (IT) corporate data centre; and
- central emergency stores for critical personal protective equipment (PPE) and key linen items.
The provision of supporting services and facilities is critical for the HA to support the planned expansion of its clinical services to meet the heavy demand for public healthcare services. The HA’s current laundry service is provided by ten laundries through four modes of delivery, viz. HA in house operation, HA laundries operated by contractors, laundries operated by the Correctional Services Department, and commercial contractors. As the service capacity of the existing laundries has reached saturation, it is necessary to have a new central laundry centre to meet the service need and enable the relocation of some existing hospital laundries in order to release the precious hospital space for clinical services.
There are currently three CPUs in the HA with cook-chill food production for patient meals. As the demand for patient food service will continue to increase, yet expansion of the existing CPUs is not possible due to space constraints, a new CPU is necessary to cope with the increasing service demand. The new CPU will also allow opportunity for further implementation of cook-chill cum cold-plating technology to improve food safety and hygiene.
Apart from the in-house site in PYNEH, the HA’s IT corporate data centres are currently co-located in the data centres provided by external service providers for hosting the HA-wide IT applications and services. In view of the expensive service costs for the external data centres and to mitigate the risk of sole reliance on data centres hosted by external service providers, the HA plans to set up a new in-house corporate data centre to cater for the projected requirement.
At present, the HA arranges storage of 90 day contingency stock of critical PPE by outside strategic suppliers and individual clusters within the HA. Moreover, all HA hospitals are required to achieve the three day stock for key linen items to provide urgent back-up or contingency supply in emergency or disaster situations. Therefore, central emergency stores are necessary to facilitate reliable deployment of critical PPE and key linen items for emergency use. With the development of the proposed central stores, more hospital space can be released for clinical use and the rental cost of outside warehouse can be reduced.
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