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[PaleBlueHammer]

The wiki article on dwarven health care is pretty well done (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Hospital) however there are some inconsistencies. 

For example:  "Build containers (b-h) to store hospital supplies. (Generally you want at least eight for a fully equipped hospital.)" vs "Due to an annoying years-old bug, hauling dwarves routinely oversupply hospitals. [...] Because of this, do not, ever, place containers in a hospital zone"

I'm guessing the containers are still being drastically over-supplied.  Has anyone used containers and had success, or found a suitable work-around?  Provide details of your hospital please, I'm expecting to need to use mine within a year or so and I'd like to get something very efficient set up.

Right now I've got my hospital located in the soil layer, next to my re-routed underground river as a clean water source.  Soap is on the way soon and I have a chief medical dwarf and a couple of dabbling nurses.  This is a young fortress so I have a little room to expand if I need to build a stockpile.

[Zivilin]

I go with the exact setup described in the wiki: I set all hospital supplies to zero except for soap, and then put in a container or two. It gets filled up with soap which is for exclusive hospital use, supposedly. Then I create separate hospital stockpiles for buckets, thread, cloth, gypsum, splints and crutches. Sometimes, after the soap is deposited, I add some gypsum to the hospital supplies and add a container for them to put it in. It works pretty well.

[Tirion]

They will bring cloth, thread, crutched and splints from anywhere. You can even make a stockpile containing these inside your hospital room. Also, if you use the setting Auto-Loom All Thread, keep giving the spin thread task in the farmer's workshop, buffalo/horse etc hair thread won't be weaved, so it will stay available for medical use.

[PaleBlueHammer]

So if I understand correctly, keeping the cloth / thread stockpile within your hospital zone will allow medical dwarfs to use that stuff, just like it was in a chest.  Correct?

[Di]

So if I understand correctly, keeping the cloth / thread stockpile within your hospital zone will allow medical dwarfs to use that stuff, just like it was in a chest.  Correct?

"keeping the cloth / thread stockpile anywhere on map" or even "not having one but ensuring this stuff is present" will allow medical dwarfs to use that stuff, just like it was in a chest.
I simply make separate stockpile for all useful trade goods like: crutches, splints, quivers, chains, etc.
Just make sure they aren't all in one bin that is hauled halfway across the fortress in order to store one piece of cloth.

[Drazinononda]

I just tried something to keep the overstocking down: forbid all hospital items, place containers in the hospital, then unforbid just a few items of each type until the hospital is stocked. Once the stock is met, no more jobs are issued to take stuff to the hospital.

It actually worked pretty well!

Until a Dress Wound job brought the cloth stock low, and now I have about a hundred Store Item in Hospital jobs. *sigh*

[megahelmet]

I have about 5 containers in my hospital. The only thing that never really gets re-stocked is soap. So I just put in a soap stockpile. Seems to work fine. I have a pretty loose cloth industry that only buys imports. Most of my dwarves just make do wearing dead immigrant and goblin clothing. The only thing I absolutely make sure to make is shoes. Dwarves without shoes die instantly when they step on the cursed ash that litters my fort.

[darkgloomie]

a possible workaround the bug is to only leave in the fortress enough thread/cloth for what you want in the hospital, then lower the hospital stockpile to 0

Ie before you process all those pig tails and rope reed fibers, and there's 5 yak hair threads in your stockpile that aren't useful for anything, raise the hospital's thread stockpile to anything. As soon as the yak hair thread is gone, turn it to 0 and process the fibers.

Same deal with the cloth. Before looming any of the thread, if you've got some cheap cloth left, raise the hospital stockpile of cloth, have the dwarves haul the items there, then lower it again.

This way your hospital is stocked and dwarves won't add anything more in there.

[bobboy555]

Why would you want to set up something efficient when it can be dwarven?

[NCommander]

Why would you want to set up something efficient when it can be dwarven?

Given the state of Dwarven Healthcare, he's making sure they efficiently die :-).

(though TBH, my last fort had a pretty good success rate with its hospital)

[smakemupagus]

I just put plenty (4-8) of containers, plus an extra soap stockpile; and have it be near a well (near via stairs is fine)

[wuphonsreach]

Biggest issue I have right now is dwarves not being hauled to the hospital, but instead laying somewhere with "no job".  (Known bug, solution/workaround seems to be removing all beds in the hospital, then placing or re-placing the beds.)

[melphel]

My issues with hospitals stem more from freeloaders napping in the beds than from storage/supplies.  Even when I have the hospital sufficiently farther away from everything else, ensuring that the bedrooms and dormitories are closer, the little drunks go to the hospital to nap.

Then when I actually have someone that needs to be put into a bed, all of them are taken, and he gets left on the floor in the corner of the hospital.  He didn't get put into a bed when one became free either, I had to deconstruct and rebuild a bed before he was treated.  He eventually died of infection.

[knutor]

I set beds in the hospital to be dormitories.  I try and put higher quality stuff in hospital.

Then I build a little finished food stockpile off to the one side with tables not in the hospital activity zone, of course.  Then I paint it all into a burrow, hospital activity zone, well and meeting/eating area into a burrow.  Two civilians live there, all the time.  Nurse-types.

But I don't do any of this until after I get a metal industry and metal clad squad up and running in a danger room somewhere, injuring each others on a routine basis.

In addition to the well, I like to include a floor grate or two, and a soap stockpile, with max possible storage bins.  I do not adjust the hospital quantities.  Sometimes, I will sell off the crappy quality hospital stuff to traders. 

I don't mind the drunks sleeping off a hangover.  Its the fellas that never seem to get off the traction bench that goof me up.  Knutor