• Explain the reasoning behind changes to the design of clinical spaces in health care facilities
• Identify how using the updated Guidelines for a project can provide a safe and effective patient care environment at a reasonable cost
• Discuss how FGI is reinventing its process to more rigorously examine, balance, and document requirements based on best available evidence
• Describe strategies used by FGI to develop and enhance new content for 2018

• Describe current injury and illness trends within health care
• Identify steps to reduce injuries and illnesses
• Explain the worker compensation costs within the health care industry
• Apply a health and safety checklist to identify hazards and non-compliance items.

• Identify different uses and purposes of measurement and verification
• Explain the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol options with a focus on Option C, “Whole Building”
• Describe the challenges and benefits of implementing an M&V plan at a building, campus, or system level
• List questions and concerns to discuss during M&V plan development and implementation

Creating a safe physical environment for patients with behavioral health needs is a significant challenge for most health care facilities. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as well as the Joint Commission and other accrediting organizations are placing an increased emphasis on assessing risks and providing a physical environment consistent with the identified risks. This session focuses on the process of risk assessment and mitigation of behavioral health patient safety physical risks.

• Use a risk assessment process to evaluate ligature risks
• Identify areas where a risk assessment is needed
• Develop a mitigation plan for identified ligature risks
• Implement a process for response to ligature risk citations

• Discuss the perspectives of infection preventionists on what architects and engineers need to know to provide the safest, most efficient environment for sterile processing
• Describe the extent to which each profession’s perspective (designer and clinician) is addressed in AORN’s “Recommended Practices for a Safe Environment of Care, Part II” and FGI’s Guidelines for Design and Construction for both hospitals and outpatient f
• Describe the design engineers’ perspective to approaching initial planning for sterile processing environments in hospitals and outpatient surgery facilities
• Explain the latest ventilation requirements for sterile processing and the Joint HVAC Task Force’s recommendations on compliance

• Assess ways to approach initial inception of project objectives and programming
• Evaluate food service design strategies
• Identify facility concerns and goals
• Describe design interventions, successes, and post-occupancy outcomes

• Describe the design process used to evaluate systems and their design for severe weather.
• Plan to maximize daylight for healing yet protect the patients during severe weather
• Explain the process of designing the glass and testing the exterior envelope components for severe weather
• Discuss the operational process for severe weather in the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital

• Implement space design strategies to encourage positive auditory stimulation for newborn neurological development
• Describe lighting design methods that serve the needs of the staff while supporting the care and development of the newborn
• Explain how and why open communication is critical to mitigate the effect of construction to adjacent critical care spaces
• Assess new technologies and how they can be used for future NICU design