A Preview to the ACHA Legacy Project Award

Mar 17, 2014 12:00pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 12:15pm

FGI Guidelines: Maximizing the Benefit of the Functional Program

Mar 17, 2014 12:45pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 2:00pm
A functional program developed early in the health care PDC process can help ensure a completed project meets the health care provider's mission and strategic goals in a cost-effective manner. The functional program gives the provider opportunities to make operational, financial, and business decisions that influence design and construction decisions throughout the project delivery process. It communicates operational intent, staff requirements, care model, and desired patient and resident outcomes. Panel members will discuss the functional programming process for hospital, outpatient, and long-term care facility projects as referenced in the 2014 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities and the new Guidelines for Design and Construction of Residential Health, Care, and Support Facilities. Questions will be accepted from the audience. This session will enable attendees to:

Objectives: 
  • Describe how to develop a functional program
  • Discuss the design and operational benefit of the functional programming process
  • Explain the regulatory requirements for a functional program
  • Describe how the functional program process results in a successful, sustainable project

GENERAL SESSION: FGI Guidelines: Maximizing the Benefit of the Functional Program

Mar 17, 2014 12:45pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 2:00pm
A functional program developed early in the health care PDC process can help ensure a completed project meets the health care provider's mission and strategic goals in a cost-effective manner. The functional program gives the provider opportunities to make operational, financial, and business decisions that influence design and construction decisions throughout the project delivery process. It communicates operational intent, staff requirements, care model, and desired patient and resident outcomes. Panel members will discuss the functional programming process for hospital, outpatient, and long-term care facility projects as referenced in the 2014 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities and the new Guidelines for Design and Construction of Residential Health, Care, and Support Facilities. Questions will be accepted from the audience. This session will enable attendees to:
  • Describe how to develop a functional program.
  • Discuss the design and operational benefit of the functional programming process.
  • Explain the regulatory requirements for a functional program.
  • Describe how the functional program process results in a successful, sustainable project.

This session is presented by Facility Guidelines Institute.

Leading the Way in Lean: UHS's Temecula Valley Hospital

Mar 17, 2014 2:15pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 3:15pm
Integrated project delivery (IPD) is not just another project delivery model; it's a way to transform your entire project team and process into an innovative, high-performing project delivery system. Learn how the Temecula Valley Hospital project team used a true integrated form of agreement (IFOA) to deliver the fastest hospital to market in California while driving innovation and significantly decreasing costs. This session will enable attendees to:
  • Examine the structure of an IFOA contract (Consensus 300 docs), and delve into how the alignment of shared risk sets the table for collaboration.
  • Discuss how an integrated team is formed, how the early timing shapes the design, and how to deliver value to the owner by maintaining cost and vision.
  • Describe the benefits of collaborative planning and scheduling systems, and how they lead to higher productivity rates and schedule enhancements.
  • Measure and share productivity rates to shape daily decisions, and improve productivity using the techniques shown.

10 Things Your Lawyer Won't Tell You (But Should)

Mar 17, 2014 2:15pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 3:15pm
Like a magician revealing his secrets, Alex Barthet explains how lawyers and law firms engage with clients and how clients can gain the upper hand. This presentation discusses strategies managers and business owners can implement to better manage outside legal counsel. Topics include questions to ask when interviewing attorneys, attorney compensation, specific ways to reduce legal fees and costs, overcoming disputes, and transferring a file from one lawyer to another. This session will enable attendees to:
  • Find and interview an attorney.
  • Compare the various methods of compensation for lawyers available to them.
  • Implement methods to lower legal fees and costs.
  • Transition a matter from one attorney to another if needed.

Leveraging Your Existing Resource: The Support Staff's Role in Improving the Patient Experience

Mar 17, 2014 2:15pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 3:15pm
Engagement of facility managers and support staff is a valuable and necessary step toward enhancing the overall patient experience. Support services have a unique, whole-system view of health care operations and are in a position to promote and improve the healing environment from beginning to end by helping to abolish a culture of silos. Both the physical environment and the clinical staff can affect the functioning of support services by helping or hindering their ability to perform duties. This session will demonstrate the importance of the support staff with a case study from Beth Israel Deaconess-Milton and will enable attendees to:
  • Discuss the benefits and long-term value of aligning clinical and non-clinical staff.
  • Describe a real-life example of health care facility managers affecting patient satisfaction.
  • Equate process improvements to better HCAHPS scores and higher reimbursement rates.
  • Use Lean process improvement methods to bridge the barriers between clinical and non-clinical staff.

A New Perspective on Facility Planning: What's Wrong with the Traditional Approach and How to Do It Right

Mar 17, 2014 2:15pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 3:15pm
Traditionally, health care organizations have completed master plans in response to facility constraints and invested in new buildings as funds became available. In the Affordable Care Act environment, capital investment is a more complicated question. This session will discuss how traditional perspectives influence an organization's decision-making and the critical questions that should be answered before investing in capital assets and will enable attendees to:
  • Identify the pitfalls of planning without strategy.
  • List the crucial tasks that are commonly missed in facility development projects.
  • Discover the steps to achieving confidence in pre-planning.
  • Determine what resources may be needed, when to engage those resources, and when to hire the design team.

Planning and Designing for Population Health: A Project Delivery Team's Journey in Innovating a New Care Delivery Model

Mar 17, 2014 2:15pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 3:15pm
Facing health care reform and a shift toward capitated payment, many health systems are channeling their efforts into wellness. Hoag Health System embarked on a two-year transformational journey to develop a population health model. Drawing on their experience, the presenters will outline this journey in planning for and designing innovative health facilities, including the process of locating clinic sites, the evidence-based design (EBD) approach they took, and the project team's collaboration with other stakeholders. This session will enable attendees to:
  • Translate a population health vision into a facility strategy.
  • Identify strategies for locating clinics to optimize population health management potential.
  • Use EBD approaches to research best-practice clinic design and learn from other completed facility projects to maximize flexibility and value.
  • Work with and navigate diverse stakeholders to develop integrated patient experiences and effective solutions.

Targeting 100! How Health Care Can Meet the 2030 Challenge

Mar 17, 2014 2:15pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 3:15pm
The Targeting 100! Research program, with its goal of reducing energy use by 60 percent from typical operational examples to less than 100 KBtu/sq. ft./year, lays the groundwork for achieving exceptionally energy-efficient hospitals. Detailed energy and cost models show it is possible to meet the 2030 Challenge across the United States with very little incremental cost increase. Strategies for achieving this goal include improving interior environmental quality, setting energy use goals and using energy benchmarking to track progress, and developing integrated teams and strategies. The presenters will use case studies to discuss how to adopt these strategies and introduce a digital tool developed for implementing Targeting 100! This session will enable attendees to:
  • Describe energy performance metrics for hospitals and major opportunities to increase energy efficiency in six climate regions in the United States.
  • Identify specific energy end use patterns in an operational hospital.
  • Discuss strategies that reduce a hospital-s overall energy load to meet significant energy efficiency goals, such as the 2030 Challenge.
  • Explain how case study projects implemented deep energy efficiency strategies.

Medication Safety Zones

Mar 17, 2014 2:15pm ‐ Mar 17, 2014 3:15pm
Medication errors are among the most common mistakes in health care delivery today, with huge costs to both patients and the health care system. The 2014 Facility Guidelines Institute Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities includes new requirements for assessing medication safety risks and identifying and designing medication safety zones, with the goal of helping owners improve safety outcomes and reimbursement under CMS's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. In this session, a framework will be discussed for implementing these new standards in new construction and renovation projects. The session will enable attendees to:
  • Explain what a medication safety zone is.
  • Discuss the evidence showing how physical environment features can contribute to medication errors.
  • Describe the importance of assessing medication safety risk as part of overall project planning.
  • Discuss how the physical environment can support safe medication use.