The PDC Summit is a dynamic educational and networking event that brings together senior leaders working in all disciplines of health care planning, design, and construction to discover ways to create value for the health care built environment. 100% of all conference revenue is reinvested into the mission of optimizing the health care physical environment. More than 3,200 senior leaders from hospitals, design firms, and construction companies attend the PDC Summit to share perspectives on optimizing healing environments. This is the one conference with an integrated audience of C-level, design, construction, and operations professionals with more than two-thirds of attendees returning to the event each year.
PDC Summit programming offers cutting-edge topics affecting the future of the health care built environment and presents thought-provoking research and presentations focusing on cross-team collaboration, PDC sustainability, designing for future generations, technology integration, and more.
AIA/AAH Deep Dive: Finding Success Amidst the Chaos of Modern Health Care Project Delivery Strategies: An Engineer's Perspective
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Modern health care project delivery continues to reinvent itself as industry expectations mature in three fundamental areas: (1) lean methods in process management; (2) integrated, high-performance design solutions; and (3) incentivized speed-to-market outcomes. Mechanical and electrical systems are especially affected by these factors. Gain insight through research and learn an engineer's perspective on what works (and what doesn't) in this growing climate of idealized (and varied) project delivery strategies.
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What opportunities exist for new and existing hospitals that can drastically reduce their energy use profiles? This workshop will present real world projects driven by energy performance research and provide a forum to discuss opportunities for deep energy savings in both new construction and in existing facilities. A deep dive description of Targeting 100! will provide the research basis for meeting the 2030 Challenge in new healthcare construction.
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Identification: 846
The Codes and Standards Forum will provide a deep dive on the codes and standards that regulate Freestanding Emergency Facilities, which are becoming a popular building type. The presenters will review the applicable codes, explore case studies, and discuss improvements to the codes that regulate the design of Freestanding Emergency Facilities. The forum will include a discussion of strategies for issuing proposals to the Facilities Guidelines Institute related to the design and construction of Freestanding Emergency Facilities.
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Forum for the Next Generation of Design and Engineering Professionals
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Identification: 847
Join architects, engineers, facility staff, consultants, and contractors to discuss the next generation of the health care design and engineering professions. This forum is intended to provide an opportunity to discuss topics pertinent to young and emerging health care professionals and establish a link between future leaders and current leaders of health facility design. Review issues related to developing emerging design/engineering professionals and discuss opportunities within the health care design profession for future leadership.
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Engineering Behavior to Reduce Energy Consumption
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Identification: 783
Can energy consumption be reduced simply by influencing the behavior of building occupants? This session will introduce behavior engineering strategies from other industries that have particular application to the health care industry. The presenters will discuss how this new type of engineering can be applied to influence the ways in which people experience and affect their environments, increasing the engagement of health care staff in efforts to reduce energy consumption and thus reduce costs and benefit the health care organization and its healing mission.
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Facility Strategies for Improving HCAHPS Scores
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Identification: 752
In this roundtable discussion, the HCAHPS task force will facilitate a guided discussion in which attendees can discuss HCAHPS challenges and brainstorm solutions. A suggested plan of action on how to make patient experience a part of other routine activities will be discussed along with tools from the HCAHPS monograph which includes checklists, forms, case studies, and other resources.
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The Transition from Construction to Maintenance: A Case Study of Building a Survey-Ready Hospital
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Identification: 726
The University of Texas Medical Branch is building two new hospitals (257,000 and one million sq. ft., respectively), both of which will be completed in 2015. The owner defined data necessary for the hospitals to be Joint Commission Environment of Care (EOC) survey ready on Day One, as well as data needed to ensure a smooth transition from construction to operations and maintenance. The data was defined during design, standardized during construction, and used during commissioning. This formed the basis of our building information management (BIM) system.
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Using Lean Concepts to Simplify Complex Heath Care Construction Projects
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Identification: 610
This presentation will focus on how the project team on the 450,000 square foot expansion of the Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children leveraged pull planning, work structuring, and a production system design approach to standardize the process for building out a five-story hospital atrium. Presenters will demonstrate how the team was able to identify simpler process approaches to constructing what initially appeared to be a complex product design.
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The Amazing Results of Collaboration Between the Design Team and Clinical Leaders at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta
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This session focuses on a design team collaborating with key clinical leaders during the design process to define future workflow patterns in an urban ED caring for more than 100,000 patients a year. Grady Memorial Hospital is experiencing amazing length of stay reduction and increased patient satisfaction results (from first percentile to better than 85th percentile) due to a proactive approach to operational redesign as part of the architectural design process.
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Health care delivery is changing in response to shifts in the reimbursement system from a volume- to a value-based model. This evolution fundamentally changes how we need to consider the concept of flexibility in health facility planning, design, and operations. Historically, space was considered a revenue driver and hospitals added flexibility by building more and larger rooms. However, these spaces will increasingly become cost centers as providers are rewarded differently and the focus moves to efforts to improve health and reduce health care utilization. This session will provide attendees with new approaches to planning for flexibility for tomorrow’s health care environment and will enable them to:
