Emerging Professionals Forum

Mar 26, 2018 6:00am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 7:00am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Engage each of the generations represented in the field of healthcare design. 
  • Discuss similarities and differences amongst the generations and identify barriers and opportunities for harnessing each generation within a team.
  • Identify issues relevant to developing future leaders in health care design.
  • Discuss how emerging design professionals can contribute to the professional dialogue in health care architecture, engineering, and research.

Medical Equipment and Technology Forum

Mar 26, 2018 6:00am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 7:00am

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.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Learn about smart, user-friendly technologies within ambulatory care settings.
  • Understand how interactive technologies can empower patients and enhance communications with their inpatient care team.
  • What are the cost justifications and intrinsic values of investing in technologies for healthcare delivery.
  • Consider how technologies may change the future of healthcare.

Collaborative Partnering: Training the Next Generation

Mar 26, 2018 8:45am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 9:45am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Garner faculty perspectives on training the next generation to work through differences in professional thought and work processes.
  • Discuss the merits and challenges of team diversity.
  • Gain insight from faculty observations on the process of team building.
  • Assess the role “alpha” personalities play in successful or failed collaboration.

Interviews with Sustainable Health Care Icons

Mar 26, 2018 8:45am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 9:45am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Leverage design strategies for healthcare energy and sustainability.
  • Use corporate management strategies for healthcare energy and sustainability.
  • Develop methods to advance your organization in more successful pathways toward a reduced-energy, resilient future.
  • Become the kind of change agent who can help your organization to achieve this kind of success.

Test Your Code Knowledge: An Interactive Q&A Discussion of Regulatory Codes

Mar 26, 2018 8:45am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 9:45am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Apply requirements of the NFPA 99 2012 Edition, as adopted by CMS and the Joint Commission.
  • Describe new code requirements in the 2012 and 2015 editions of NFPA 101 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.

Hospital to Hub...A New Lease on Life

Mar 26, 2018 8:45am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 9:45am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Program an outpatient facility with an aging, declining population, understanding code/safety mandates.
  • Explore ways to preserve and enhance culture through an existing outpatient facility.
  • Integrate telehealth for a new type of health care delivery understanding space needs to effectively deliver.
  • Improve wellness through community education.

Improving the Patient Experience for People with Mental Health Issues Through the Built Environment

Mar 26, 2018 8:45am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 9:45am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define specific needs along the continuum of care, from an inpatient intensive behavioral health unit to outpatient and rehab facilities.
  • Explore how aspects of the built environment affect the health, safety, and welfare of these vulnerable populations.
  • Identify how different facility types require different design approaches that align with clinical treatment and specific patient well-being.
  • Examine how primary and secondary research outcomes can inform design decision making of behavioral health facilities. 

Ten Things We Hate About Health Care – And How to Fix Them

Mar 26, 2018 8:45am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 9:45am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify five key areas where the patient experience could be significantly improved.
  • Evaluate service improvements in retail and other industries that could be applied to healthcare delivery and design.
  • Categorize the big data analysis of positive and negative patient feedback with regard to design elements.
  • Assess the responses of healthcare organizations to improve the patient experience.

Learning from mistakes: The role deficiency reports play in the design of better health care facilities

Mar 26, 2018 8:45am ‐ Mar 26, 2018 9:45am

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe a refined data mining methodology for gathering information from public sources related to this issue.
  • Explain a refined data analysis method for clustering deficiency data into meaningful groups that can frame an educational experience for practitioners.
  • Discuss a model for translating research findings around most common design deficiencies and potential best practices.
  • List the most common code deficiencies and ways to avoid them.

Re-Engineering Electrical Demand Factors

Mar 26, 2018 12:45pm ‐ Mar 26, 2018 1:45pm

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.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss how the evolution of demand factors for healthcare facility electrical systems have become irrelevant to today‘s health care facilities field.
  • Explain how new metering technologies for electrical distribution systems are helping inform ASHE and the NEC in ways that will help reduce system oversizing, and ultimately reduce costs so that more resources can be directed at patient care.
  • Describe ways to be involved in the research and advocacy process to support this important initiative.
  • Discuss potential design implications with respect to energy consumption of medical equipment and how this helps hospitals provide new and better technology to care for the needs of their communities.