Moving Toward Operational Sustainability: The Evidence Behind Evidence-Based Design

Mar 23, 2016 8:40am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 9:40am

Identification: 1171

Although patient satisfaction is subjective to each individual experience, quantifiable metrics have been established as a mechanism to compare and benchmark facilities and their performance. This session explores these metrics and how they are directly impacted by the PDC process and influenced by operational excellence. A case study will demonstrate how Memorial Hermann Health System has successfully implemented this approach during several projects, leading to cost benefits.

Mythbusters: Reality versus rhetoric regarding public-private partnerships

Mar 23, 2016 8:40am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 9:40am

Identification: 1049

The Teck Acute Care Centre at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia is being delivered through a 33-year, fixed-price public-private partnership (P3) agreement to design, build, finance, and maintain the facility. Clients and the architect discuss the P3 agreement and how they work successfully through design development, construction, and management. This session will debunk the myths of a P3 project delivery method and discuss how to design a patient-centered health care facility that extends the life cycle beyond 20 years.

Sustainability in your facility

Mar 23, 2016 8:40am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 9:40am

Identification: 1149

Addressing the high usage of resources in health care starts with a discussion on a corporate-wide sustainability strategy. Learn how to evaluate and set sustainability goals while calculating the best balanced solution for a successful project, including the best return on investment options to fit your project objectives. Identify sustainability options within your operations and learn how to implement and manage these options. Obtain the tools you need to organize and engage your team to develop, review, and implement corporate sustainability initiatives.

Design Process Integration with 3P: Stanford Digestive Health Center

Mar 23, 2016 9:50am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 10:50am

Identification: 1144

Stanford Health Care (SHC) is undergoing a core business transformation to provide preventative and wellness-focused care. SHC plans to build a 50,000 square foot integrated digestive health center. As a new business model, a multi-year 3P (production, preparation, and process) effort was undertaken to map current and future state operations and design a facility that will support those needs. Come learn how our team embraced 3P to design an innovative facility that is poised to provide the highest quality of patient care.

Strategies for Taming Chaos, Consolidations and Capital Budgets

Mar 23, 2016 9:50am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 10:50am

Identification: 1167

In the chaos of consolidation and capital budget management we focus on efficiencies in order to cut costs and save money. This works well until the human element enters the picture. Efficiency can quickly disappear when people’s emotions and feelings become involved. How would healthcare be different if the environment was designed by listening to the personal stories told by patients, families or staff? Stories recount passionate histories that enable better communication and collaboration leading to more effective design and implementation. This interactive storytelling workshop presents a simple project delivery system with a big-picture, long-term strategy that is patient and staff engagement driven.

Research to Practice: Lighting for Improved Environment of Care

Mar 23, 2016 9:50am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 10:50am

Identification: 1086

This session challenges our industry to design lighting for an improved environment of care. The presenters will showcase leading research in lighting and health, review the soon-to-be-published Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Recommended Practice in Lighting for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities, RP-29, and outline a bridge to incorporating research, technology, and standards to improve the patient experience from the owner’s perspective.

The Impact that Technology Should Have on the FGI Guidelines: Making your Voice Heard

Mar 23, 2016 9:50am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 10:50am

Identification: 1199

The 2018 Guidelines will be in mid-cycle of the revision process and one of the major issues being discussed is the impact of technology on health care and its built environment. This workshop will permit attendees to participate in facilitated discussions of a major area of the FGI Guidelines. The number of attendees will be limited to 60 plus a Health Guidelines Revision Committee member for each working group. A brief update on the status of the proposals will be given, followed by a series of work groups to explore different technologies.

Lean and the Triple Aim: Design, Construction, Operations

Mar 23, 2016 9:50am ‐ Mar 23, 2016 10:50am

Identification: 1060

This presentation will describe the connection between lean, physical facilities, and health care operations using a case study at Bluewater Health in Sarnia, Ontario. Lean requires systemic thinking. Health care is a system of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole; this presentation will look at lean as it applies to design, construction, and operations of a health care facility. The new challenge for health care facility designers and managers is to create facilities that are adaptive, that is, designed to be changed with minimal capital costs.