Introduction: The concept of patient satisfaction has become very important in the field of healthcare and the major part of this satisfaction is affected by the quality and variety of hospital hotel services.
The main purpose of this study is to analyzing the effect of quality of non-medical services (hoteling) of hospitals on satisfaction considering the mediating role of satisfaction with health services in Shahid Fayyaz Bakhsh, Shahid Hasheminejad and Masih Daneshvari hospitals.
Method: The type of this study is of applied and descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study included 48043 recipients of services in the mentioned hospitals. The sampling method is simple relative random judgment and Krejcie and Morgan table was used to determine the sample size. information collected through a researcher-made questionnaire. In order to analyze the data and test the hypotheses from descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS22 software and also to check the model fit and confirmatory factor analysis from Lee software. Shannon entropy method was used to measure the importance and weight of the studied variables.
Results: The weight and priority of each of the research variables implied that the views of service recipients in the field of non-medical services of hospitals, services during treatment, cleaning services, welfare services, human resources, buildings and facilities, and patient nutrition were respectively high to low priorities.
Conclusion: Recipients satisfaction of non-medical services was average. Establishing partnership management system and determining their medical priorities and needs might increase their satisfaction .
