Designing for Safety: Assessing Risks in the Health Care Built Environment
Mar 18, 2014 2:00pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 3:00pm
In the era of accountable care, hospitals are no longer reimbursed for serious adverse events that are considered largely preventable. The built environment can contribute – as an underlying condition – to such events. The presenters will introduce a toolkit being developed to support the new FGI Guidelines safety risk assessment requirement using focused applications for considering patient, staff, and visitor safety during project planning and throughout the design process. This session will enable attendees to:
- Explain how the built environment acts as an underlying condition for many safety-related events in health care facilities.
- Discuss issues to be considered in a safety risk assessment during design.
- Describe different methods that can be used to proactively evaluate safe design.
- Identify when and how a safety risk assessment can be applied to a specific project.
The Courtship of Neuroscience and Design: An Emerging Domain for Health Care Design Evidence
Mar 18, 2014 2:00pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 3:00pm
Health care design relies on emotional and psychological response to one's surroundings. Anxiety, fear, stress, and other responses can affect patient safety and the delivery of care, and the physical environment can have a strong influence on these reactions. This presentation will address neuroscience developments and the how designers can use these findings to increase the safety and effectiveness of care delivery. This session will include Q&A and will enable attendees to:
- Examine developments in neuroscience theories and technology as they apply to health care design.
- Explore potential means of developing performance metrics using neuroscience studies.
- Identify implications for the health care design practice.
- Analyze future implications for Affordable Care Act-era design.
Improve the Experience, Strengthen the Brand: Intuitive Design Strategies for a Pediatric Hospital
Mar 18, 2014 3:10pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 4:10pm
Design strategies that incorporate fully branded interior design concepts and intuitive design and wayfinding strategies are emerging as key initiatives for health care institutions seeking to improve public perceptions. Nationally recognized as one of the best children's hospitals of 2013-2014, Children's Medical Center in Dallas desired a long-range high-level plan to address branding and wayfinding issues. This session presents Children's Medical Center as a case study example that explores the transformative effects of design strategies that support branded interior design, intuitive design, and wayfinding. It will enable attendees to:
- Describe the effects of branding/identity on patient experience.
- List intuitive design and wayfinding challenges.
- Identify intuitive design and wayfinding strategy solutions and realistic practical applications.
- Apply project design considerations and lessons learned to future needs.
Building to Save Lives: Incorporating Infection Prevention into Planning, Design, and Construction
Mar 18, 2014 3:10pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 4:10pm
Health care facilities-acquired infections (HAIs) have become a key focus for many health care organizations and regulatory authorities. Often, HAIs are caused by pathogens deposited during construction that occurred years or even decades ago and are raised during renovation and maintenance activities. Implementing innovative construction techniques during new construction can significantly reduce and potentially eliminate these legacy HAIs. This session will enable attendees to:
- Create a culture of infection prevention from the earliest stages of construction.
- Examine real numbers from real construction projects representing the costs associated with a major infection prevention program.
- Sell a strong program to senior leaders in the construction industry or to their health care clients.
- Explore infection prevention techniques that can be applied to your next project.
Passing the Torch: Attract, Retain, and Build the Next Generation in Health Care PDC
Mar 18, 2014 3:10pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 4:10pm
As many professionals in the health care planning, design, and construction (PDC) environment look ahead to retirement over the next decade, a question arises: Where are the successors? With fewer young people involved in the industry, recruitment, retention, and mentoring become crucial. Successful organizations are looking to the future not only for health care trends, but to develop the next generation of PDC professionals. Best practices discussion will be encouraged at this light, high-energy workshop. This session will enable attendees to:
- Explore why succession planning is critical to an organization.
- Acquire tools to attract and retain young people.
- Determine how best to mentor and transfer knowledge to younger generations.
- Identify and use ASHE programs that can help with succession planning.
Micro Hospitals: A Fad or a True Innovation?
Mar 18, 2014 3:10pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 4:10pm
As health care providers search for care delivery models that improve quality and lower costs, many are creating urgent care centers (UCCs), free-standing emergency departments (FSEDs), or combinations of the two. In Texas, providers are also developing micro hospitals that include a UCC, an FSED, and a small number of inpatient beds. Geared to patients who need more extensive observation or even brief intensive care, these facilities are often located in emerging or medically underserved communities. This session will enable attendees to:
- Identify the differences between UCCs, FSEDs, and micro hospitals.
- Determine which facility is the right fit for their community.
- Assess the facility and site parameters needed for each project type.
- Identify the critical financial success factors for a UCC, FSED, or micro hospital project.
Small Hospitals, Big Programs: How to Compete in the New Accountable Care Marketplace
Mar 18, 2014 3:10pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 4:10pm
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton is planned around the small hospitals, big programs concept to deliver innovative care. This presentation will examine how three performance metrics–staffing and operations, sustainable concepts and lifecycle cost savings, and improved patient outcomes and safety–steered the planning process around an accountable care model that enables smaller hospitals to compete with larger hospitals to meet community needs, improve care outcomes, and enhance the patient experience. This session will enable attendees to:
- Use operational metrics to support the small hospitals, big programs strategy.
- Analyze the top critical-to-quality requirements of a future patient room.
- Incorporate the patient experience process into the design of a nursing floor.
- Use the target value design process to ensure the project is operationally sustainable and on budget from the beginning.
The AutoCodes Project: Electronic Code Checking Is on the Horizon
Mar 18, 2014 3:10pm ‐ Mar 18, 2014 4:10pm
The Fiatech AutoCodes Project aims to make the building regulatory process faster, more uniform, and ultimately more competitive by creating electronic code checking capability for the industry to be used with virtual 3-D construction models or building information models. Viewed by many analysts of the capital projects industry as a potential game-changer, the project is now moving into its second development and testing phase with interest from Kaiser Permanente and Target, among others. This session will enable you to:
- Describe the automated code review process and how it will help transform the health care industry.
- Assess the effects of the AutoCodes Project and the specifics of how it will make the plan checking process more efficient.
- Identify additional implications of an industry transition to an electronic AutoCode checking process.
- Explain how the AutoCodes Project and electronic plan checking can help standardize regulatory practices within the building industry.
Meeting the Challenges of Green Building Rating Systems, Standards, and Codes
Mar 19, 2014 6:30am ‐ Mar 19, 2014 7:30am
LEED v.4 has been adopted for use by USGBC, Green Globes New Construction has been vetted and updated, ASHRAE 189.3 has gone through public comment, IgCC proposals have been made, and the new edition of the FGI Guidelines will be published in 2014. This session will review all of these standards, guidelines, and codes and discuss how they affect the design of health care facilities. A questionnaire will be provided prior to the session so attendees can come prepared to discuss their responses. This session will enable attendees to:
- Examine updated green building rating systems in relation to health care.
- Examine updated green building codes and standards in relation health care.
- Explore sustainability requirements in relation to health care licensing codes.
- Acquire resources to navigate the changes in sustainable health care requirements.
Smarter, Faster, Better and Without an IPD Contract: IPD Successes at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mar 19, 2014 6:30am ‐ Mar 19, 2014 7:30am
When Banner MD Anderson decided to expand their cancer center, they sought to take advantage of the successes other organizations had achieved using an integrated project approach. However, they did not want to use a formal IPD contract. The integrated processes that the team followed realized savings in cost and time over the phase one project. This session will enable attendees to:
- Set up an IPD project without an IPD contract.
- Develop a project charter and mission statement to work in a collaborative process.
- Incorporate lean strategies to maximize project efficiencies.
- Work collaboratively in one model.