Parking is the first stage in the patient journey&34;. This session will show how making parking a positive health care environment led to a significant increase in patient satisfaction scores. Best practices at the UC Davis Medical Center and the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center will be discussed. Three major parking concepts will be presented: providing the right amount of parking, identifying and distributing parking, and directing people to the right parking location and the right entrance.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess parking supply and demand.
• Identify various user groups and proper distribution.
• Discuss wayfinding options for both parking and final destination.
• Quantify and distribute accessible spaces.

Is it possible to standardize Hybrid ORs? Interventionists, surgeons, and cardiologists must share the same space and coordinate procedure scheduling and priorities. Coming to an agreement on procedures, imaging systems, and support equipment should drive the design, but too often design precedes decision. This session will identify clinical procedural differences affecting infrastructure, layout, positioning, and technology use. Medical technologies and room layouts from projects will be reviewed, and differences between cardiac, vascular, neuro, and other procedures will be evaluated.

Learning Objectives:

• Review advantages of the hybrid concept.
• Compare technologies by procedural application.
• Evaluate room layouts for cardio, vascular, neuro, and other procedures.
• Discuss planning and coordination challenges.

Understanding regulatory codes is essential for proper maintenance 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®, NFPA 72, and NFPA 99, and participate in an open discussion of the questions with a lower percentage of correct responses.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply requirements of the 2012 edition of NFPA 101, as adopted by CMS and the Joint Commission.
• Describe new code requirements in the 2012 and 2015 editions of NFPA 101, the 2012 edition of NFPA 72, and the 2012 edition of NFPA 99.
• Assess personal comprehension of regulatory codes based on correct responses to seminar questions.
• Identify top code misinterpretations in various NFPA codes, including recent editions of NFPA 101, NFPA 72, and NFPA 99.

A densely urban location and partial demolition of a fully operational hospital were just two of many challenges for the team on the Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University project, but their skilled collaboration and adaptability ensured project success. This presentation will examine effective team dynamics and what is needed when working within tight constraints and responding to shifting targets and expectations. Presenters will focus on the construction and related design process, addressing lessons learned and best practices.

Learning Objectives:

• Outline the benefits of early contractor engagement.
• Explain how to develop and lead a collaborative project team.
• List the benefits of having a solution-oriented approach to project management.
• Describe best methods for overcoming site challenges such as urban location and mitigating disturbances.

Join an interactive panel discussion with design and research experts who will share their insights and experiences in integrating lean and evidence-based design (EBD) processes to optimize project outcomes and ROI. Explore how these two disciplines create a balanced approach by aligning the people, process, technology, and space requirements to deliver the optimal solution. The panel offers perspectives from industry, research, architecture practice, and a health system owner. Together, these individuals have more than 70 years of health care-focused design experience.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the steps for lean and EBD.
• Integrate lean and evidence-based design processes into project planning and design.
• Discuss how using evidence as a part of the lean process adds value to the client organization.
• Identify potential pitfalls of each process without consideration of the other.

Seattle Children's, South Clinic advances the hub-and-spoke facility development model that brings outpatient services closer to patients in their communities. Located within a shopping center, this clinic design adapts a former Circuit City store into an outpatient pediatric clinic. South Clinic expands brand reach into the growing South Puget Sound region, offering urgent care, occupational and physical therapy, and specialty services. The design saved 2.5% of construction costs and is now the prototype for ensuing Seattle Children's clinics in the Puget Sound region.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess methods of reducing risk while adapting another typology into a health care facility.
• Identify how lean methods and collaboration reduce time and cost.
• Describe how facilities can respond to new drivers in health care facility development.
• Identify architectural strategies for adapting buildings to health care use.

The AIA/AAH Planning + Design Student Challenge 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.

This session will be an overview of the three day long AIA/AAH Planning + Design Student Challenge followed by presentations by the winning teams.

The National Institute of Building Sciences has brought together leading health care professionals to address common challenges of our field at a national level. The Academy for Healthcare Infrastructure (AHI) was developed to create white papers dedicated to improving complex built environment required to support America's health care mission. This session features a panel discussing AHI's work and best practices on topics such as reducing capital costs; developing a flexible health care infrastructure; project acceleration and speed-to-market strategies; defining the next generation's focus; and owner organization for successful project outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the unique challenges the health care built environment will face in coming years.
• Discuss best practices for overcoming the challenges in the health care built environment.
• List resources you can use to help reduce capital costs.
• Develop strategies to ensure successful project outcomes.

This forum is a platform for the interaction about leading edge technology among owners, architects, engineers, facility managers, contractors, equipment and technology planners, and vendors. This session highlights the technologies that hospitals and health systems are leveraging to reduce waste and increase quality, including technology at the bedside and behind the scenes. Technologies enable smarter communication and security systems with command and control centers while considering patient privacy, room turnover, and patient satisfaction. Join us for panelist presentations and discussion.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the trends driving standardization among medical devices and considerations for managing upgrades and replacements.
• Identify opportunities for standardizing the approach to medical and IT devices.
• Learn strategies for implementing smarter supply distribution and waste handling systems.
• Name how technologies aid in augmenting day to day security and communications and operations for emergency command centers.

This forum is a platform for the interaction and open discussion between professionals working in health care facilities (architects, engineers, biomedical engineers, contractors, facility managers, risk managers, etc.) and consultant design professionals. This forum will review, with audience participation, some of the administrative and practical issues associated with the delivery and operations of health care projects.

Learning Objectives:

• Participate in an open discussion of colleagues sharing common goals.
• Share strategies and solutions for common issues.
• Discuss through a broad overview the concepts and operations of project delivery methodologies.
• Discuss the effect of recent changes in the health care on capital project initiation and operations