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. Today’s healthcare facilities are challenged with more connected devices than ever. Panelists will provide insights of latest strategies and how Owners are making decisions at an increased pace for assuring connectivity and investments in systems that improve the quality and access to care for sustainable community health care.

Learning Objectives: This interactive discussion will explore the various aspects of executing a project in today’s dynamic workplace from Planning, Design and Construction. How are teams managing the impact of changing technology throughout the course of a major project. Panelists will highlight 3 building/project types and discuss the challenges through the design and construction phases of a project.

The Health Care Owners Roundtable is a platform for health care administrators, operators, and design and construction leaders to openly exchange ideas with each other as well as engage with planning, design and construction professionals. Through a moderated discussion and active audience participation, this session will provide opportunities to better understand the pressing issues that are on the owners’ minds. It will create an environment for all participants to learn from each other and help us structure our design and construction industry to serve the needs of health care providers and owners.The Health Care Owners Roundtable is a platform for health care administrators, operators, and design and construction leaders to openly exchange ideas with each other as well as engage with planning, design and construction professionals. Through a moderated discussion and active audience participation, this session will provide opportunities to better understand the pressing issues that are on the owners’ minds. It will create an environment for all participants to learn from each other and help us structure our design and construction industry to serve the needs of health care providers and owners.

Drastic changes in the business landscape and societal expectations means leaders need to rapidly innovate. Where can you get new tools to successfully innovate? Within the growing field of sustainability. Business leaders at Procter & Gamble to BlackRock, Owens Corning and other Fortune 500 use sustainability to change how they serve their customers, operate profitably, and manage risk within their core products. How can you achieve better outcomes for our collective future while taking into account your business’ unique needs? How will you as a leader need to adapt to capture sustainable opportunities? How do you get ahead of the environmental, social and governance regulations that will shape your business? Join Chrissa Pagitsas, author of Chief Sustainability Officers At Work and former head of ESG at Fannie Mae as she brings to light lessons learned from Fortune 500 executives and her own experience building a $50 billion dollar green bond business to generate revenue growth and deliver positive impact through core business products and services.

A global pandemic and dramatically reduced project schedule at the 75% mark were just two of many challenges for the team on the 500,000 SF, 13-story Duke Health Central Tower at Duke University Medical Center project, but their skilled collaboration and resiliency in the face of unknown circumstances ultimately ensured project success. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the primary safety, design and emotional considerations when building health care facilities with an eye toward future high-risk scenarios. What strategies can other hospitals apply to render safe and successful outcomes? Representatives from Duke Health Facilities, Perkins&Will, Skanska and RMF Engineering will share lessons learned and best practices from a holistic perspective, highlighting how our best planning efforts must be combined with team resilience in order to adapt to unforeseen conditions and achieve the extraordinary.

Common automation tools in the modern-day smart home, like Alexa and Siri, have introduced us to more simplicity and user comfort in our everyday lives. With our phones or voices, we can control lighting, temperature, and other building systems. Intelligent lighting is also quickly becoming a versatile design component when planning health care facilities, capable of transforming clinical programs and connecting built environments. Learn how one hospital is integrating intelligent lighting into their facilities.

Skilled labor shortages, supply chain issues, material shortages, and quickly rising fuel prices are amplifying market instability and increasing the risk of building projects for health care systems, architects and builders. Join us for a case study presentation on Mercy King Mills Hospital and how on-site prefabrication has helped Bon Secours Mercy Health, GBBN and Danis Construction manage the risks, costs, and schedule of a large medical center project. This session will highlight a large effort to standardize quality across the client’s built environment through a system of architectural prototypes. Next, the OACM team will describe the physical constraints of deploying a 16,000 SF portable manufacturing facility on-site to industrialize construction of 25% of the building’s critical components. Learn how this innovation hedged market instability and increased labor utilization by 62% while also addressing the skilled labor shortage risk. Also, hear how the owner established a project culture and team environment that encouraged innovation and resiliency.

In 2021, the Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) opened its doors to a new medical campus, making it the second largest hospital in California at 992,000 GSF. This project began with the realization that the iconic cloverleaf hospital would not meet seismic safety in 2020, it quickly grew to design & construct a state-of-the-art medical facility that focuses on mental, spiritual & physical health for children & adults in alignment with the vision of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Panelists representing owner, architect & contractor. Adventists’ beliefs, clinical voices and lessons learned from the pandemic and seismic safety were combined on this project. The adult & children’s hospital towers look & feel different, inside & out, thanks to the design. Doctors used virtual reality therapy to help young patients understand & feel comfortable with the construction happening outside their windows. Leave understanding of how to:

Create a collaborative environment to incorporate owners’ needs, clinical voices and their vision into design.
Use state-of-the-art technology and modern therapies to help all stakeholders now and in the future.
Plan & build a health care facility for healing the whole body, spirit and mind while also being structurally seismic-safe.

This session investigates how the built environment supports or inhibits staff communication and teamwork through the exploration of the Indiana University Health West Vertical Expansion project, post occupancy. We evaluate how the patient unit impacts patterns of staff communication and teamwork on two distinctly different units with the exact same footprint within the same building. We will also demonstrate how the incorporation of acuity adaptable rooms impacts staff work while maintaining flexibility.

Construction projects in hospitals present many challenges, and having to comply with the requirements of your accreditation organization adds an additional layer of oversight. This session will help to provide attendees with a better understanding of what accreditation organizations (AOs) are looking for in regarding construction projects, from preconstruction requirements to closeout documents. Requirements and recommendations from the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 101, Life Safety Code; NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code; FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals; and the CDC will be reviewed along with documentation requirements/recommendations. Some of the more common instances of nonconformance along with causes will be explored. Attendees of this session will be better prepared to provide a safe environment of their patients, staff and visitors, both through practice and documentation of continuous readiness.