Identification: 1514
Credits: None available.
Hear lessons learned from two recent hospital fires and how the Total Concept of the Life Safety Code® (design, construction, and compartmentation; provision for detection, alarm, and extinguishment; and fire prevention including training and drills) kept patients safe. The session will take the Total Concept one step further to where the building design process not only addresses the minimum codes (e.g., the Life Safety Code) but is expanded to take into account effective fire procedures, surge planning, and building evacuation.
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Identification: 1491
Credits: None available.
Efforts to achieve high patient satisfaction scores at UF Health North began before the first patient walked through its doors. From design to building occupancy and beyond, the comprehensive approach maximized the patient experience through the built environment, team culture, and clinical processes. An expert panel and the project's lead planner and interior designer will present strategies that have resulted in a 98th percentile satisfaction rating in the ED. Specific metrics, customer comments, academic studies, and organizational practices will be provided.
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Identification: 1567
Credits: None available.
At UW Health's new satellite campus, lean planning inspired a new approach to health care delivery. In 2015, UW Health opened a flexible facility that could respond to changes in medicine and meet patients' needs through collaborative teamwork and cross-training. One example is the Universal Care Center (UCC), a unique building element containing six pods of eight identical rooms. Each pod is shared by ED, pre/post-surgery, and imaging departments. The area provides on-stage/off-stage circulation and creates work zones to allow for patient privacy and optimal communication.
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Identification: 1464
Credits: None available.
A panel of design professionals, facility executives, and real estate professionals will explore the current urgent care guidelines, experiences with the Department of Public Health's plan review processes, and how these experiences have shaped planning and approach to future urgent care clinics. The panel members will discuss opportunities to share services at urgent care locations, develop operational efficiencies to reduce care costs, and provide better access to care for patients.
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Identification: 1773
Credits: None available.
The Legacy Project Award celebrates outstanding health care design that has stood the test of time and contributes to future advancements. This award recognizes health care architecture that demonstrates superior planning and excellence. This session will describe how the original planning and architecture has evolved to contribute to a changing health care environment. Discussion will focus on the leadership qualities, project drivers, team experiences, and the story of this year's award-winning place of healing.
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Identification: 1774
Credits: None available.
This session provides an overview of the newly created ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 189.3: Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable High Performance Health Care Facilities, which prescribes the procedures, methods, and documentation requirements for the design, construction, and operation of high performance sustainable health care facilities. The session covers how this standard relates to ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1 and the upcoming revisions to the International Green Construction Code (IgCC). With the recent implementation of the new LEED V.4, numerous jurisdictions are evaluating the adoption of the IgCC to provide an alternative to LEED.
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Identification: 1499
Credits: None available.
Natural ventilation has many proven benefits, including energy savings, improved indoor air quality, and occupant connection to the outdoors. European patient wards are typically conditioned using natural ventilation, but passive cooling strategy is rarely used in the United States. This session identifies relevant design and patient care issues and outlines safe and effective approaches for incorporating natural ventilation into the health care setting. Additionally, the results of a survey to U.S. health leaders will quantify the most critical challenges to natural ventilation.
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Identification: 1537
Credits: None available.
Prefabrication offers dramatic opportunities for construction process improvement and quality control. This interactive session walks through prefabrication techniques and unwraps the benefits and challenges of standardization and offsite construction techniques. This session will also describe historical precedent projects highlighting barriers to prefabrication and how those have been overcome. Live, web-based polling during the presentation will gauge audience priorities and preconceptions before and after the presentation.
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Identification: 1566
Credits: None available.
The new Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital developed a model patient room through a design and research process that employed full-sized mockups, patient and caregiver interviews, and prefabricated room elements. The process engaged decision makers to address all aspects of design, from unit layout to room configuration to room lighting. The integration of research, design, and construction facilitated consensus among the stakeholders and provided data to inform innovative design solutions for a room that is a new model for the health system.
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Identification: 1484
Credits: None available.
Total project alignment strategy ensures improvement in all three areas of the Triple Aim at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The university focuses on the total cost of ownership which includes all parties in a collaborative delivery model. These processes ensure high quality, effective, and efficient product delivery and constant improvement, which will be demonstrated in a case study of a replacement clinic project using total project alignment strategies.
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