Executive Program

"The Business Case for Better Buildings"

An Executive Program Presented by The Center for Health Design and Turner Healthcare.

The forecast of annual capital spending on health facilities rising from $15 billion today to $25 billion in the year 2010 makes the "better building" topic timely.

Our country's need for new healthcare facilities gives us a rare opportunity to use the emerging science of evidence-based design to build better buildings that improve patient care and staff loyalty, medical outcomes, safety, institutional productivity, and financial performance -- while decreasing medical errors and waste.

This 2.5 hour program -- which has been developed by The Center for Health Design's multi-disciplinary board of healthcare executives, strategists, medical practitioners, design professionals, and researchers -- starts by looking at the areas of research and practice of evidence-based design.

Using data from The Center's Pebble Project, we present a composite 300-bed "Fable Hospital" that makes the business case for better buildings that contribute to better and safer healthcare.

Discussion Topics

• Areas of evidence-based design research
• Research examples
• Putting the evidence into practice: The Pebble Project
• Putting the evidence into practice: The "Fable Hospital"

This is a chance to learn from pioneers in the industry and network with colleagues. For a complete listing of topics to be discussed, download our Program Outline.

2008 Dates

• Fall dates to be announced soon

For more information on the program, call or e-mail Gayle Mitchell at Turner Healthcare, ph. 615.324.3883.