Identification: 1785
Credits: None available.
This session will discuss the new provisions of the 2012 NFPA 101: Life Safety CodeĀ® and NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code adopted by CMS and what will most likely affect the design of health care moving forward.
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Identification: 1540
Credits: None available.
This presentation provides an overview of the evolution of ASHRAE Standard 170: Ventilation of Health Care Facilities, including errata, addenda, and official interpretations as well as insights as to what technical issues are currently being investigated. The presentation will focus on design and construction issues including planning. Examples and common problems and their resolutions will be shared. The presentation will focus on systems start up, operation, and maintenance issues related to new construction and renovation projects, ICRA, documentation, accreditation, commissioning, and recommissioning.
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Identification: 1474
Credits: None available.
When the time comes to build out shelled space, owners can be faced with constraints related to design, operations, schedule, and phasing, not to mention facing a major construction project in the midst of an operational hospital. This session will present the story of Phoenix Children's Hospital and some of the innovative tools used by the design and construction team. The owner will also present strategies used to accommodate the patients, families, and staff on the neighboring units during construction.
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Identification: 1459
Credits: None available.
Security was an early design consideration for the Fairview Southdale Emergency Department addition. From planning for behavioral/mental health patients to mass casualty situations, the design and construction team focused on zones, control points, circulation routes, and egress paths to keep patients and staff safe during different high-stress situations. This session diagrams the unique security challenges and solutions designing emergency departments for wide demographics, highlighting lean strategies to increase operational efficiency and safety.
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Identification: 1532
Credits: None available.
Hospitals are some of the largest energy-consuming buildings in the United States and are built to last 50 or more years. Best efforts are made to build the most functional, best looking, and most efficient buildings. However, when it comes to value engineering to reduce construction cost, what is considered value? Upfront cost? A 5-year simple payback? Learn how the EPA's Portfolio Manager can help benchmark the proposed building during the design phase. See how your design stacks up to real buildings nationwide.
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Identification: 1524
Credits: None available.
The Yale-New Haven Health System and Yale School of Medicine established a Center for Musculoskeletal Care in Stamford, Connecticut. The center brings comprehensive musculoskeletal services into the community and enhances coordination throughout the multi-disciplinary facility. When there is more dialogue between providers, resources are used better, driving lower health care spend per patient. This session examines the impact of the design of a multi-disciplinary clinic on staff efficiency, communication between providers, value and quality of care, and the patient experience.
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Identification: 1786
Credits: None available.
Texas A&M University, with support from Herman Miller, the Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation, and Alberta Infrastructure, conducted a research study of recently constructed North American hospitals to measure net gross ratios, building gross ratios, and the allocation breakdown within building gross components. This session presents the methodology and procedures used to measure the projects, and the important lessons learned in calculation methods. A survey and analysis of the past and present rule of thumb ratios used by the profession will be discussed in relation to the results of the study. The status of the research study, current results, and interesting conclusions that could impact assumptions in contemporary hospital space programming will be shared.
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Identification: 1787
Credits: None available.
Active design includes innovations adopted by hospitals and health systems to encourage physical activity. This session will discuss how innovations adopted by hospitals and health systems can encourage physical activity and give patients, visitors, and staff opportunities to engage in active transportation such as biking, walking, and using public transportation.
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Identification: 1788
Credits: None available.
This session will explore how students at Texas A&M University created next generation health facilities in Kenya with the goal of promoting health and preventing disease. The yearlong effort involved 80 architecture and landscape students and four faculty members, and resulted in design concepts for dozens of primary care centers in Kenya and a biomedical industrial city proposed near the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The designs considered human health, economic health, animal health, and environmental health.
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Identification: 1466
Credits: None available.
When MedStar Franklin Square was planning the relocation of an open-bay NICU to create private patient rooms, the challenges involved getting clinicians, administration, and families to align on the project vision to maintain the highest level of care. This session will look into the design process and how designers and clinicians worked together using design and technology to focus on a patient- and family-centered environment.
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