en مدیریت بیمارستان Hospital Management پژوهشي Original Article <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><strong>Background and Purpose</strong>: Adopting a proper location for a hospital will result in allocating optimal resources, improving access to health care, improving the quality of hospital services, reducing the waste of time, reducing energy consumption, decreasing costs, and reducing traffic. Accordingly, this study was conducted to adopt the optimal location for hospitals in Yazd City, Iran.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods</strong>: This research is descriptive in terms of type and applied in terms of objectives. The used criteria for this study covered data related to military, residential, sports, industrial, green space, education, population density, communication roads, and available hospitals. All effective criteria were distinguished, and a map of each criterion was provided to locate the hospitals optimally. The weight of each criterion was determined by the analytic hierarchy process method and applied to the maps in the GIS software environment. The final land valuation map was prepared by combining the maps to construct the hospital.<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The highest weight was calculated for the population density layer (0.24) and the lowest for the sports layer (0.025). The classified map to construct a hospital in Yazd City, Iran was classified into 5 categories, from very appropriate to very inappropriate. The map revealed that about 34% of the studied area is appropriate for building a hospital.<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Due to the importance of proper geographical access to hospital treatment facilities, it is recommended that new hospitals in Yazd be constructed on very appropriate land plots, and the priority in building a hospital to be very appropriate land plots located in the fourth district.</span></span><br> &nbsp; Geographic Information Systems, Analytic hierarchy process, Hospital, Yazd Province 195 206 http://jhs.mazums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-948-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Milad Shafii میلاد شفیعی milad.shafii@gmail.com 100319475328460010247 100319475328460010247 No Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences,Yazd,Iran Seyed Mohammad Afrazandeh سید محمد افرازنده afrazandehmohammad74@gmail.com 100319475328460010248 100319475328460010248 No Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences,Yazd,Iran Zabihollah CharRahi ذبیح اله چهاراهی charrahy@gmail.com 100319475328460010249 100319475328460010249 No Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Faculty of Geography, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. Tehran University, Tehran, Iran Seyed Ali Al-Modaresi سید علی المدرسی almodaresi@iauyazd.ac.ir 100319475328460010250 100319475328460010250 No Department of Remote Sensing, Faculty of Human Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran. Department of Remote Sensing, Islamic Azad University of Yazd, Yazd, Iran Roohollah Askari روح اله عسکری r.asqari@gmail.com 100319475328460010251 100319475328460010251 Yes Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences,Yazd,Iran