2024 PDC Summit On Demand

Medical Equipment and Technology Integration Forum

Objectives

• Develop an understanding of major clinical laboratory divisions, departments, and test specializations.
• Discuss equipment and technology drivers in planning space and systems, including lab automation.
• Review facilities implications for the safety and protection of laboratory specimens and staff.
• Discuss the differences in requirements for clinical laboratories in business versus institutional occupancy type facilities.

Healthcare Owners Roundtable: Pressing Issues in 2024

Objectives

• Become familiar with owner perspectives on key current issues in health care design, construction and operations.
• Discuss multiple approaches for soliciting professional services and selecting project delivery methodologies.
• Examine relevant project case studies and success stories experienced by the panelists.
• Explore collaborative approaches for multi-stakeholder collaborations and their influence on project success.

How Responsive Design Reinforced Access and Specialty Care Growth for Boone County Health Center

Objectives

• Link motivations to decisions when master planning for health care facility growth within a community of this size.
• Account for Department of Agriculture requirements when determining direction of projects in rural communities.
• Strategically navigate sensitive situations such as: moving patients for renovation work; coordinating with local officials for land ownership; educating the community about facility needs.
• Analyze real data measuring project success after one year of operations.

How Innovative Collaboration Strategies Helped Baptist Health Care Build a New Campus in 48 months

Objectives

• Explain how effective leadership can foster a collaborative culture and guide the team to success.
• Discuss how collaboration allows diverse perspectives and ideas to come together, leading to a deeper understanding of challenges and more robust problem-solving.
• List technology and tools that facilitate collaboration, making it easier for teams to work together, share information and coordinate efforts.
• Implement collaborative efforts that build trust and foster stronger relationships among team members, leading to a positive work environment.

The Rise of the Climate Economy and how Energy Incentives can Benefit the Healthcare Industry

Objectives

• Introduction to potentially $800 billion in energy incentives within the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and review the Inflation Reduction Act enhancements of the Residential Energy Credit (Section 45L) and Building Energy Deduction (Section 179D).
• Run through Healthcare examples of how energy incentives can be implemented into your tax cashflow strategy.
• Discover how nonprofit Healthcare are also invited to the energy incentive game along with their architects, engineers and contractors.
• Learn about the new and improved Clean Energy Investment Tax Credit and how it applies to those renovating and building new Healthcare facilities and relate the energy incentives in recent legislation with your Sustainability and Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) initiatives.

ASHRAE Guideline 43 – Developing Industry Guideline for Healthcare Ventilation Operations

Objectives

• Understand the importance of an operational guideline.
• Be able to describe the recommendations of the operational guideline.
• Be able to apply the guidelines to their systems.
• Be able to pontificate the justification for the guideline and its recommendations.

Connecticut Children’s Approach to Behavioral Health Care across Levels of Care

Objectives

• Assess one children’s hospital’s response to the current mental health crisis by improving access to appropriate care for behavioral health patients in the emergency department and inpatient settings.
• Identify the value in creating pediatric behavioral health environments that fosters security, support therapeutic interactions and focus on providing more holistic and comprehensive care to improve children’s overall well-being while maintaining a safe space.
• Describe the design principles implemented in pediatric behavioral health spaces that provide care for patients with dual diagnoses of both medical and psychiatric needs.
• Explain how integration of technologies can improve the pediatric behavioral health patient experience.

How Design Standards Drive Innovation, Reduce Costs and Future-Proof Project Plans

Objectives

• Understand the difference between a design standard and a design guideline.
• Learn how standards have and will continue to change the design process.
• Understand the benefits health systems derive from having design standards.
• Explore how health systems will use AIA & technology to better manage their planning, design, and construction processes.

Surface Material Failures: Let’s Talk Pain Points and Solutions

Objectives

• Improve your selection process for successful outcomes by evaluating multiple attributes and next steps when specifying products and materials.
• Increase knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting processes and procedures used on healthcare surface materials.
• Understand relevant failures which are the result of environmental contaminants,  cleaning chemicals and methods, and the advanced testing required to identify them.
• Provide an overview of questions required to assess durability, performance, testing, cleanability, and suitability attributes when selecting finish materials for healthcare.

Building Sheppard Pratt Health System’s New Behavioral Health Campus: The Premise, Process, Product

Objectives

• Explain how the 175-year history and principles introduced by Moses Sheppard and his vision of care are not only still relevant, but fully incorporated into the new Sheppard Pratt Health campus.
• Discuss challenges resulting from change in leadership and the impact of COVID-19 on the project and how the project moved forward in a manner consistent with the original concepts.
• Analyze critical environmental and clinical considerations in relationship to current patient metrics and staff satisfaction.
• Compare goals and post-occupancy findings with the lived experiences of a person receiving care in the new hospital.

Competency Clinic: Troubleshooting Project Management Mishaps

Objectives

• Consider 8 project management phases and the common issues that occur.
• In groups, select and dissect a past project management mishap to identify the key variable that led to the challenge.
• Identify solutions and prescribe an action that the team should have taken.
• Bring back new ideas and resources to share with your own project teams.

Seven Steps to Decarbonization

Objectives

• Build a cross-functional team to work collaboratively to achieve sustainability goals.
• Establish a project-specific action plan to make progress on sustainability.
• Construct a compelling business case to support decision-making and buy in.
• Develop a strategy to approach decarbonization and other sustainability targets.

Navigating the Labyrinth of Health Care Codes

Objectives

• The participants will understand how the differing codes for health care design and construction apply for each type of facility and how to use each code or standard
• Explain the intent behind some of the major provisions and how they may be interpreted or misinterpreted.
• Discern where to apply the most commonly misunderstood code requirements in a health care facility.
• Outline the most common health care regulators; what set of codes, standards or regulations each regulator is governed by; and why that matters.

Security Design Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities’ Positive Impact on Resiliency

Objectives

• Describe design goals that will ensure a safer health care physical environment.
• Identify opportunities to collaborate more effectively as the designated safety and security subject matter expert on a health care organization’s design team.
• Create an effective security risk assessment for one’s health care organization.
• Support the design of the physical environment while ensuring the design supports mitigation of patient violence and increased safety for patients, visitors and staff.

Baptist Health Care Centers Evidence Based Solutions in the Design of its New Behavioral Health Hospital

Objectives

• Learn how the project team and client worked together to identify evidence-based solutions to the unique challenges posed by the behavioral health environment, ultimately creating a safe space that promotes empathy, dignity and privacy.
• Explain how behavioral health services positively impact communities.
• Implement visioning and planning strategies for behavioral health facilities that maximize safety, reduce incidents of self-harm and create a therapeutic environment.
• Identify evidence-based design standards to implement on behavioral health facilities.  Implement post-occupancy studies and research to measure outcomes.