The corporate headquarters baseline architecture, plus the one deviation an acute-care hospital requires: a segmented, HIPAA-driven clinical-device network isolated from guest and administrative traffic.
The project brief: a 6-story, 350-bed regional hospital where the redundant core, per-floor access layer, and function-based VLAN pattern from this program's baseline corporate headquarters project carry over unchanged, and a new clinical-device VLAN tier is layered on top of it. This module walks the segmented VLAN and IP addressing plan across administrative, clinical, and guest/patient traffic, two worked calculations — sizing the clinical-device VLAN directly from bed count, and clinical-grade wireless AP density for reliable VoWiFi and telemetry roaming — plus HIPAA-driven segmentation, 802.1X/MAB network access control for legacy medical devices, and redundancy for life-safety-adjacent clinical systems.
It closes by naming exactly how this project's clinical segmentation, access control, and power-feed decisions each trace back to a specific, occupancy-driven reason — not a reinvention of the baseline architecture. The full worked numbers, bill of materials, and design reasoning are part of the unlocked module below.