The PDC Summit is the premiere event for over 2,000 health care and hospital facility senior leadership. No other conference brings health care planning, design and construction decision-makers together like the PDC Summit.
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Demystifying Strategic Decarbonization Planning
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The national dialogue surrounding climate change and health has significantly matured and increased in urgency. Hospitals and health systems are increasingly under pressure from communities, staff and boards to have a strategy to address the hospital’s climate impacts and risks. This is many hospitals’ first foray into sustainability, which can be daunting. This session is designed to help demystify the decarbonization planning process by exploring Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital of Stanford Children’s Health's multi-phase effort to develop and implement a carbon neutrality strategy.
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Pandemic Plugload Data = NEW NEC Demand Factors
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In 2020, a plug load monitoring project funded by the NFPA Research Foundation was modified (due to the pandemic) to consider patient care areas in hospitals. More than 12 months of data was collected at the branch circuit and panel level at several hospitals across the country. This data provides insight into electrical load during a potential surge event and is, therefore, relevant to the conversation. The data is largely in line with previous research. The results suggest opportunity to change the demand factors and as a result reduce the calculated load design requirement for hospitals. By PDC 2022, we will have published the final peer review paper with the most complete data set (including surge data) and updated the codes. This session will share insight into this research and the implications for hospitals.
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Level I Trauma Rooms: Challenges and Opportunities in Designing for Safety and Efficiency
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Presenters will share findings from a collaborative project between Kent State University and Cleveland Clinic on Level I trauma rooms. The project examines four issues that can compromise efficient and safe care: workflow, interruptions, technology integration and sensory stimuli. Trauma resuscitations consist of procedures that require immediate action for diagnosing & stabilizing injured patients. In a complex environment, maintaining an efficient workflow is challenging. Interruptions can contribute to errors that can cost a patient’s life. Effective technology integration can facilitate task completion. Finally, excessive sensory stimuli, such as noise, can hinder efficient care. Systematic literature reviews, focus groups and multidisciplinary design thinking sessions were utilized as a deep dive to understanding problems in trauma rooms. The next phases of the project included design and development where the research team integrated research into a design studio to develop design variations for the trauma room. To evaluate the design, a full-scale physical mock-up and an augmented reality application were developed and utilized for scenario-based simulations with clinicians. The analysis revealed overlaps among the four categories of issues under study. Findings from this study will inform stakeholders on design strategies that allow for a holistic user-centered design in support of safety and efficiency of care in trauma rooms.
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AIA/AAH PDC Student Challenge 2022 Presentation
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The AIA/AAH PDC Student Challenge 2020 is an exciting annual event designed to stimulate critical inquiry, creative ideas, and multi-disciplinary interaction between students, and design professionals. It will highlight the brilliance and innovation of our future healthcare architects, engineers, and construction managers. Students from four different universities and disciplines will bring their creativity and ideas to this fun and evocative design charrette.
During this time, students will present work completed during the three-day-long AIA/AAH PDC Student Challenge 2020 for critique by a multi-disciplinary jury and the winning team announced.
This year’s participating universities include:
University of Kansas – Healthcare Architecture
Kent State – Healthcare Architecture
Penn State University – Architectural Engineering
Texas A&M University – Construction Management
Louisiana State University – School of Nursing
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With health care accounting for 10% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, environmental sustainability and decarbonization of health care are at the forefront of the climate action conversation. Climate deadlines and calls to action dominate the evening news and legislative agendas. However, the idea of decarbonizing the entire health care sector is more than a little overwhelming. Hospitals and health systems have a vested interest in the climate conversation not only because of climate change’s impact on public health and critical health care delivery infrastructure, but also because the complex energy and resource needs of hospitals and health care systems directly contribute to the health care’s carbon footprint. In this session, AHA and ASHE health care sustainability experts will provide an overview of the complex concepts of environmental sustainability and decarbonization through the AHA policy lens, demonstrate tasks to empower attendees with practical ways to get started, and provide perspective on changing culture and engaging teams to work together in a joint effort to move the needle.
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Codes and Standards Forum: Connecting the Dots Between Code Revisions and Planning
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Revisions to codes and standards are a necessary progression to ensure that facilities stay up to date with best practices and technology. Determining what the changes are and how they apply to the built environment is the cornerstone of any construction project. The design of spaces needed to provide the best patient care has also changed due to a variety of reasons, including code and operational changes. This forum will discuss some of the code changes and progression for health care environments and how that could affect the initial planning and strategies to create a successful project.
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Engaging and unifying the next generation of health care design & construction leaders will equip them to lead the advancement of the healthcare built environment. We would like to invite you to join us in a conversation about and with the next generation of our profession. This forum is intended to spur interaction between the future leaders of our profession and to unite them as a force for improving the future of health care design & construction. The forum discussion will also link these future leaders with the current leaders of our profession to create opportunities for mentorship and continued growth.
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The Future of Behavioral Health Care: Rethinking Milieu
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Helping those experiencing an acute behavioral health crisis navigate it and return successfully to daily life is part of the mission guiding Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s replacement behavioral health facility at its College Hill campus. Beginning with the philosophy that the healing process is the result of treatment and treatment is based in programming, the new project implemented state-of-the-art thinking in therapy based on pilot study data conducted in the existing space. Through a cohorted curriculum-like daily structure, patients will experience a radical decrease in downtime. Learn how the design was informed by pilot study data indicating programming engagement and decreased downtime contribute to shorter stays, reduced time in restraint, less medication, and improved family engagement. Milieu types and scale suited to particular therapeutic needs and patient progress will be explored. We will share our evidence-based process for collecting and integrating diverse points of view as well as the challenges faced to design during the pandemic and adapt to increasing cost escalation while providing therapeutic spaces that promote wellness.
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Supply Chain Impact on Health Care Project Delivery
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Come to a panel discussion about perhaps the greatest contemporary threat to on-time completion of health care construction projects: supply chain disruptions. Hear three representatives of leading organizations explain how to anticipate, manage and mitigate such risks. Discover which contracting models hinder or help solving the problem. Learn about planning techniques to identify your company’s vulnerabilities to this risk and to start reducing those exposures through a collaboratively developed risk register. The panel members will discuss the ways that supply chain disruption drives up insurance claim costs, the proactive practices of a national general contractor that manage and mitigate the impact of the issue, and the effects of on a health care organization when its projects are delayed. Attendees will receive useful takeaways to help in applying this knowledge after the summit.
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Positioning for Carbon Neutrality: National Academy of Medicine Guidance
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Today, we know that the health care sector represents roughly 20% of the U.S. economy, 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is calling upon health care to adopt a new norm: 50% carbon emissions reduction by 2030 (2010 baseline) and 100% by 2050. This session, will provide an overview of the NAM and their approach to health care decarbonization, including some of questions the action collaborative is currently diving into. An interactive discussion will follow, examining how we can help inform the NAM in their work with valuable audience input on how the field is being impacted by decarbonization goals.
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