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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Suites: Design Challenges and Creative Solutions
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Review the requirements for patient care suites based on NFPA 101, Life Safety Code and the International Building Code, then hear firsthand how suites were added to a design concept at Frederick Health Hospital to avoid major design and construction delays. In this session, the changes and updates to suite requirements in the 2012 edition of NFPA 101 and the 2015 and 2018 editions of the International Building Code will be outlined and potential risks associates with suites will be discussed.
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Mapping Uncharted Territories: One Team’s Journey to Resiliency
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Resiliency is the capacity to adapt to changing conditions while maintaining a team’s morale and determination. This session explores the effective use of design-assist, phasing, logistics and expectation management and how establishing these best practices early on can contribute to team and project resiliency. This powerful leadership group will discuss how they navigated uncharted territories during the design and construction of Memorial Hermann, The Woodlands Medical Center's bed tower expansion. Due to the unprecedented growth and a new Level II trauma center designation, the hospital needed to expand capacity to support the surrounding dense suburban communities of North Houston. The team will explore the complex development of a new 385,000 SF bed tower, vertical expansion of the hospital’s existing garage, sky bridge and central utility plant, and 150,0000 SF of major backfill renovations. You will gain insight in how to develop a unique plan sensitive to the safety and welfare of all parties through the examination of the team’s building tools used to overcome these unexpected disruptions.
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The Crossover Medical Office Building
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The delivery of health care is evolving quickly and constantly. Expectations for ambulatory care and the types of treatments that are possible in the outpatient setting are particularly dynamic. As care migrates away from the traditional hospital, the ambulatory environment must anticipate sicker patients, more complex procedures, and higher demands for resiliency and reliability of technology. For all these reasons, the hospital-owned ambulatory care center is crossing over to look and perform less like a traditional medical office building and more like an outpatient hospital. This means robust standards for infrastructure, including highly reliable electrical systems, enhanced infection prevention, and high-performing exterior envelopes. This session will focus on the importance of planning for future flexibility within an ambulatory setting. The case study will focus on the core-and-shell planning process for a new outpatient facility housing multiple types of health care services including ambulatory surgery, faculty practice and cancer treatment.
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Greater of Two Evils: Hurricane in a Pandemic
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Though the COVID-19 global pandemic has dominated our daily lives and the health care space over the last two years, health care providers across the country have simultaneously faced additional varied and compounding emergency events including hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, winter storms, utility outages and mass tragedies. Through thoughtful panel discussion between multiple health care provider representatives, attendees will hear retrospective lessons learned from real-world emergency events and how to apply those lessons to future planning, design and construction efforts. Discussion includes detailed lessons learned for hardening infrastructure, preparing emergency response plans, and integrating emergency plans into the PDC process in order to mitigate future event risks.
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Design Lessons Learned from COVID Ground Zero
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In this session, you will learn from leaders from the nation’s first hospital to respond to multiple COVID-19 patients, proving we were to experience a worldwide pandemic. CEO, Jeff Tomlin MD, and Director of Facilities, Kevin Kajita of EvergreenHealth, in Kirkland, WA will share lessons learned as to what worked in their facility and what could be designed in the facilities of the future to better respond to a pandemic.
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Data Analytics Drive Project Delivery, Not Just Operations
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This session features panelists from Kaiser Permanente, Clark Construction and CannonDesign who will review revolutionary new techniques for integrating data analytics and smart building approaches into the PDC process to enhance construction project delivery. Although data analytics are often discussed and add significant value to the operations phase of a facility’s life cycle, this session is focused on the use of data analytics during design and from designers, builders, owners and operators on how data analytics can improve the project delivery process. Additionally, attendees will gain the knowledge needed to begin to implement data analytics into their own projects, including a checklist for successful data analytics integration spanning design and construction.
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Learn why it is important to focus on your P’s and E’s. P’s stand for patients, predictive analytics and projects, and the E’s are engagement, environment and economics. Minding your P’s and E’s will lead to planning, designing, implementing and managing your health care facilities more effectively. Join us for a roundtable session of health care leaders who will share insights from clinical, operational, technology and environmental perspectives, all which impact the way we manage our facilities. They will share best practices on how a patient-centric model and the data gathered from patients can help with the planning and managing of future facilities, resulting in a better patient journey, lower costs, happier patients and increased profitability. Data/ predictive analytics and patients' input lead the way
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Test Your Code Knowledge
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Understanding regulatory codes is essential for proper design of a health care facility. Recent editions of the codes have introduced new requirements that can ease the difficulties of maintaining a facility, if used properly. Test your knowledge with a live code quiz on NFPA 101, IBC and NFPA 99, including an open discussion of questions with a lower percentage of correct responses.
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Data-Driven Metrics for Right‐Sizing Your Hospital
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With costs going up and funding buckets getting smaller, health care designers and construction managers are challenged to find new ways to reduce construction costs while positively impacting life cycle costs. And patient floors account for the largest amount of hospital program space. In this session you will hear firsthand from the researchers who conducted and analyzed a National Bed Tower Study that was published in the journal Health Environments Research & Design. Together with the executive director of facility services from the University of Rochester, the group asks: Is there an opportunity to reassess how to approach patient-floor design and construction based on a deeper understanding of trends and metrics? With data collected from 171 current hospital projects including patient-floor GSF; patient-room size; inboard versus outboard bathroom location; same-hand versus mirrored rooms; centralized versus decentralized nursing; and column spacing; this session is an indepth analysis of what the metrics tell us. The panel will provide owners and health care facility designers with knowledge and insight to benchmark their design to national averages, see what others are doing, and potentially offer ideas to right-size their space, thus reducing costs.
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Cyberattacks are increasingly disrupting patient care and putting patient safety at risk. Data breaches have, for example, made emergency medical records inaccessible, diverted ambulances, delayed treatments, and canceled appointments and surgery. While data breeches flood the headlines, it’s not the only way cybercriminals can compromise patient safety. Attacks on fire protection systems can cause false alarms, loss of communication or denial of service, which can interrupt patient care and compromise safety. Fire protection systems are increasingly networked to Building Control Systems (BCS), Internet of Things (IoT), and other platforms that are, by design or oversight, exposed to the public-facing internet. This emerging environment exposes fire and life safety systems to unique and novel cyber vulnerabilities and attacks that have the potential for significant consequences. Any weak point in a building’s information technology infrastructure, including equipment, building systems, IoT devices and more, can be exploited and used as a pathway for attack. This session will review the expansiveness of cyber vulnerabilities for fire and life safety systems in health care facilities, the severity of consequences, tactics to mitigate these threats, the role of codes and standards, and how to reduce these risks.
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