Identification: 2256
Credits: None available.
This session aims to engage the next generation of healthcare design leaders while equipping them to advance the healthcare built environment. Join the conversation about and with the next generation of professionals in the field. The Emerging Professionals Forum is intended to provide a setting to spur interaction between future leaders.
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Identification: 2257
Credits: None available.
The Medical Equipment / Technology Forum is a platform for the interaction and conversation about leading-edge technology among owners, architects, engineers, facility managers, contractors, equipment and technology planners, and vendors. The panelists will highlight innovations from hospital settings that are making a difference in patient satisfaction, efficiency and enhancing the environment of care.
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Identification: 1944
Credits: None available.
The real challenge of the AIA/AAH PDC Planning + Design Student Challenge is to produce a compelling design-to-budget proposal with teammates drawn from a hat. Creating an effective team is as important as the solution itself. This roundtable discussion with student-faculty advisors will be about team development and collaboration. The issues we will address are not unlike those encountered by teams in real life, and lessons from the challenge can be applied to in-house training programs and to academia.
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Identification: 2068
Credits: None available.
Come hear how and why iconic leaders in health, Energy to Care award winners, have been able to achieve the success that has eluded others. Patterns are beginning to reveal themselves; these icons display a range of similar strategies that involve goal setting, managing centralization, capital deployment, data management, standardization, and engagement. This session will consider what organizations can do to move forward on a continuous improvement pathway, and how individuals can become the leaders their organizations need.
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Identification: 1866
Credits: None available.
Understanding regulatory codes are essential for proper maintenance of a healthcare 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 99 and NFPA 101®, including an open discussion of questions with a lower percentage of correct responses.
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Identification: 1900
Credits: None available.
The hospital system transformed a former hospital into a medical village hub. The hub embodies population health concepts to improve wellness, health education, and nutrition and engages a variety of visitors. Residents are attracted to the health information resource center, community activity and education center, nurse clinics, retail tech bar, and telehealth systems. A new community education program encourages residents to better manage their wellness. The healthy village allows patients to truly understand and improve their health outcomes.
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Identification: 2002
Credits: None available.
The planning and design of behavioral facilities can improve the well-being and outcomes of people with mental health issues. Behavioral health is no longer one-size-fits-all; facilities require different approaches to design along the continuum of care. The presentation will cover industry trends within the continuum of care and population health and how primary and secondary research can inform planning and design of behavioral health facilities to enhance the therapeutic goals and well-being of people with mental health issues.
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Identification: 1931
Credits: None available.
We will be patients many times throughout our lives, and yet our likes, dislikes, and frustrations with health care delivery don’t seem to influence how we think about and design the healthcare environment. This presentation focuses on ten obstacles to a positive patient experience and provides examples of how providers solve these issues. The presenters leverage big data and synthesize patient reviews from sites like HealthGrades and Yelp and use feedback to inform strategic, operational, and design decisions.
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Identification: 2276
Credits: None available.
This session focuses on the research supported by the J. Armand Burgun Fellowship and the findings of the most common health care design review deficiencies from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Identification: 2274
Credits: None available.
For decades, health care engineers have reported that new building electrical systems are significantly larger than the loads they are intended to serve. This discrepancy has long appeared to be an opportunity for cost reduction. However, something as significant as demand factor requirements in codes changes slowly, and, usually, only in response to overwhelming evidence. This problem has been discussed by organizations such as IEEE, Laurence Berkeley National Laboratories, National Renewable Energy Labs, ASHRAE, and the California Energy Commission. ASHE‘s advocacy team has created a research team to better study and document the realities of this situation and to submit proposals to the National Electrical Code (NEC) in response. That team is now working with representatives of the NFPA to ensure these demand factor adjustments will be approved in the next (2020) edition of the NEC. This session will explore this issue and research in depth, including opportunities for ASHE members to help.
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