Identification: MON100
Credits: None available.
Identification: 1394
Credits: None available.
This session provides an overview of NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code. This session includes how to generally navigate the code, where to find specific issues, and how the sections are applicable once found. Topics to be covered include risk assessments, medical gas and vacuum systems, essential electrical system, emergency management, and more. Other NFPA codes and standards referenced by NFPA 99 will be discussed.
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Identification: 1266
Credits: None available.
Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is more than a predictive maintenance program. This session will explore the use of RCM and condition based monitoring (CBM) in the facility maintenance program and describe how to employ a RCM program. Attendees will take away an understanding of maintenance techniques used in RCM, how CBM techniques can simplify and reduce cost in a maintenance program, and the tangible benefits of RCM.
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Identification: 1396
Credits: None available.
The facility management team at St. Joseph’s Hospital, which is part of the BayCare Health System, set out to reduce falls in common areas of the hospital, such as hallways, waiting rooms, cafes, sidewalks, and parking lots. After 12 safety measures were implemented, the hospital recorded a 16 percent reduction in falls from the previous year. This session explores the changes made and ways to take a team approach to reducing slips, trips, and falls.
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Identification: 1316
Credits: None available.
The Center for Health Design has created an online tool to support the safety risk assessment (SRA) required by the 2014 Guidelines. This session shares the SRA tool with stakeholders so that they can begin using the tool on designs or in their own organizations. This presentation will describe the purpose and structure of the existing tool and describe what the next generation is going to include to assist health care designers and users construct safe physical environments.
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Identification: 1323
Credits: None available.
Equipment maintenance has long been referred to as “high risk and high reward” for health care facilities. The automatic transfer switch (ATS) is a critical part of power systems, and today's modern solutions aim to reduce the risk of downtime while enabling simplified maintenance procedures. The presentation will outline best practices for developing a maintenance plan and help attendees develop procedures to improve facility uptime and extend the life of ATS equipment.
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Identification: 1263
Credits: None available.
Mergers and acquisitions are a way of life in the health care field. One of the major adjustments that individual facilities have to make involves incorporating system approaches to management of the facility, including managing the environment of care (EOC). This session presents ways to improve the overall management of the environment of care using a system approach. System best practices and lessons learned will be discussed.
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Identification: 1424
Credits: None available.
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Identification: 1425
Credits: None available.
By adopting the 2012 edition of NFPA 99, CMS has adopted ASHRAE/ASHE/ANSI 170 for the first time as a Condition of Participation. This session covers the 2008 edition of ASHRAE 170 and addenda as referenced by the 2012 edition of NFPA 99. The session also discusses the addenda not adopted by CMS and potential conflicts that could arise from applying later editions of the standard.
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Identification: 1240
Credits: None available.
Many presentations discuss how to use commissioning to mechanically or technically reduce energy usage but few formal large scale presentations show facility managers how to simplify setting up measurement and verification data on energy reduction programs. How do facility managers document data on their energy savings efforts? How can they get recognized for their efforts? This session provides a broad range of information and tools that assist in improving knowledge on the programs, tools, and information available for them.
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