Identification: 1793
Credits: None available.
Many changes have stemmed from the CMS adoption of the 2012 editions of NFPA 101: Life Safety Code and NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code. Many of these changes are in the Standards and Elements of Performance (EP) the Joint Commission uses to survey health care organizations. This session will review some of the more significant environment of care and life safety changes, including new EPs and those that were modified. This session will also include a brief discussion of the Phase II project, and an opportunity to ask questions.
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Identification: 1560
Credits: None available.
Two leading health systems are meeting rising service demand, without deploying new beds. These stand-alone, patient-focused destinations will share how they worked with various demographics to align services and create a care continuum. Learn how strategic vision and proactive building plans can maximize first cost investment and avoid disruption in future phases. Health system leaders will provide specific examples on how they pre-engaged communities, approving agencies, developers, and vested stakeholders in planning and demonstrate how to streamline several levels of input.
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Identification: 1775
Credits: None available.
Walk through NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code and the specific implications for designers to comply with the code as recently adopted by CMS. NFPA 99 has become a risk-based document and is applicable to many health care facilities. Compliance now requires a multidisciplinary group. Design teams will have to fully understand the effects of these decisions. This session will point out the specific provisions of which every architect and engineer needs to be aware.
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Identification: 1784
Credits: None available.
This session will discuss how Joint Commission surveyors prepare for surveys and explains the new agenda process–including details on the agenda if a Life Safety Code® surveyor arrives with the team on day one or day two of the survey. This session shows how scoring is completed, explains the SAFER matrix, new Project REFRESH pilots, and reviews the new Joint Commission fire drill matrix. The session will also provide tips on successful surveys for the life safety, environment of care, and emergency management issues evaluated during the building tour. Attendees can ask questions during this session to get answers directly from those overseeing Joint Commission Life Safety Code surveyors.
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Identification: 1470
Credits: None available.
Identification: 1569
Credits: None available.
This University of Florida Health case study highlights the importance of people and technology in solving health care facility management challenges such as resiliency, staff retirement, energy, and operational efficiency. By defining its intelligent campus strategies through outcomes rather than technology, UF Health has been able to adopt a holistic approach. Outcomes accomplished through this approach include $5 million in savings in the last 5 years, improvement of patient comfort, and reduction of building system alarms by 80 percent.
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Identification: 1581
Credits: None available.
This session is intended for health system leaders interested in learning how academic medical centers collect, manage, and leverage facility condition information. The presenters will offer insights based on a benchmarking study initiated by MD Anderson Cancer Center of its peer institutions. Common facility renewal practices will be identified as well as how data from facility condition assessments informs renewal and capital planning decision making. Top trends, best practices, and associated lessons learned from those best practices will be presented.
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Identification: 1573
Credits: None available.
Co-location–having design and construction team members work together–holds the promise of significant savings in time, dollars, and effort while enhancing the quality of the documents, construction process, and the finished building. This presentation focuses on the Big Room of Banner University Medical Center Tucson. At its heart, co-location entails realignment of practices and priorities from individual organizations to the project. This panel discussion will include project goals, costs, organization, and schedule, as well as outcomes and lessons learned.
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Identification: 1561
Credits: None available.
Flexibility is at the forefront of many of the decisions made in health care projects. As treatment and diagnostic modalities move toward a surgical suite model having both prep and recovery functions, multitasking seems to be a logical step. This session will look at the ways a universal prep recovery room could help address organizational goals including patient satisfaction, patient and staff safety, staff efficiency, clinical standardization, and building a brand and market share.
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Identification: 1434
Credits: None available.
This fast paced, interactive session looks at how medical errors occur, what role the physical environment may play in medical errors, and the importance of interdepartmental teamwork to reduce risk and advance patient safety. Presenters will use video, slides, and audience participation to shine light on how a medical error can occur in a health care setting and how risk management can work with other facility departments to decrease the likelihood of reoccurrence.
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