HEALTHCARE DESIGN Webinars

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How the ICONS Have Fared: Mega-Hospitals with Major Dreams

2/18/2010, 1 -2 p.m. EST

Presented by: Don McKahan, AIA, FACHA

What are the important "lessons learned" from the most innovative and groundbreaking health care facilities of our time? How can the unique challenges of creating MD Anderson Cancer Center's largest new project, the renowned Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and the innovative MacKenzie Health Sciences Centre, enlighten architects and designers about the planning of health care environments? This "Hospital Icons" presentation will highlight the key "lessons learned" from these innovative projects. The program will provide attendees with important project data, client and architect interviews, architectural photography and post-occupancy feedback on these renowned healthcare facilities.

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EBD in the ED

3/11/ 2010, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

Presented by: Nathan Siegel, MD

The emergency department is increasingly recognized as the hospital's front door. Studies supporting good ED design have so far lagged behind interest, and the diligent designer has had to search in disparate places for relevant research. This presentation will simplify that task and present a review of research germane to ED design, and highlight some of the important research questions that remain to be answered. We will examine principles related to ED layout both as a whole and within individual rooms. We will also review the operational priorities of clinicians, how those priorities are catalyzing fundamental operational changes, and what this all means for emergency department design.

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Form Follows Finance: Health Facility Development in a Time of Scarce Credit

4/8/2010 1 – 2 p.m. EST

Presented by: Bill Rostenberg, Susan Lipka, Scot Latimer

Today's economic climate has posed unprecedented challenges on health facilities in a time of scarce credit. Take part in this unique session that will share perspectives and strategies from leading healthcare experts. Participants will reflect upon significant changes that have occurred. Learn goals and strategies currently being employed by leading health systems and listen to predictions about what the future holds. You'll hear about key financial issues you should be most concerned about and engage in an interactive Q&A session. A don't miss for anyone concerned with financial strategy.

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Privacy vs. Isolation: the Challenge of Hospital Design

4/22/2010, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

Presented by: Susan Mazer, BM, MA

Although patient privacy has become synonymous with HIPAA regulations, the legislation has no reference to privacy. Rather, the ambiguous and compliance-driven Privacy Rule of 2003 has become the controlling gorilla of healthcare challenges. What role does health care design play in mediating the patient's right to privacy? How do the direct need for nurses and physicians to monitor, care, and thoroughly observe the patient conflict with the patient's need for privacy? These questions continue to plague health care organizations. This webinar will provide an overview of the historical and current definitions of patient privacy, strategies for assessing privacy practices both in terms of risks and effectiveness, legal compliance regarding HIPAA requirements, and methods for improving patient and staff privacy by design.  

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Impact of Physical Design Options on Nurse Walking Time in Inpatient Units

5/6/2010, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

Presented by: Debajyoti Pati, Ph.D. and Tom E. Harvey 

Excessive walking by nurses has been widely reported. While operational interventions abound, demonstrated architectural solutions are few, owing to complex interactions between operational and design factors that influence actual walking. Recent time-motion studies are beginning to capture values of influential variables, such as trip frequencies to various destinations on a unit. As part of a study to develop and validate a nurse walking prediction measure, HKS researchers collected task frequency data from 812 medical-surgical and ICU nurses, from 46 states, through a nation-wide stratified random sampling. Analyses show that nurse walking time saving between different independent options pertaining to documentation, medication, telephone, and supplies range between 22 to 34 minutes each, per nurse, per a 12-hour shift. Combined, a point of care model, compared to a fully centralized model, results in a walking distance reduction of 68%. That translates to 154 minutes of walking time per nurse in a single shift, or 39 days reduction in time wastage per nurse, per year, for day shift alone. This webinar will present key findings from the data analysis. Elements of architectural design that could bear maximum impact on walking will be explored.

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Applying Environmental Psychology to Enhance Lives?

6/17/2010, 1 – 2- p.m. EST

Presented by: Sally Augustin, Ph.D.

For decades, environmental psychologists have been gathering information about how elements of the physical environment, such as color, scent, texture, and spatial composition influence human attitudes and behaviors. They have used rigorous scientific methodologies to learn how to create places in which human beings thrive. This exciting program provides healthcare design practitioners with an introduction to environmental psychology's core concepts. The influence of aesthetic aspects of the physical environment on the immune system will be comprehensively addressed. This session will explore applications of environmental psychology in healthcare contexts and provide attendees with the tools they need to begin to use environmental psychology in their practice.

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Revitalizing the 1950s Hospital

7/22/2010, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

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ER One—Latest Developments

8/12/2010, 1 -2 p.m. EST

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A Comprehensive Approach to Healthcare Facility Evaluation

9/23/2010, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

Presented by: Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, B.A., M.Arch., M.A. (psychology), D.Arch., AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, EDAC

We live in a world of limited resources and pronounced needs. Whether we are talking about creating eco-effective environments or healing environments, accountability for the way we build and design buildings is an ethical mandate. More specifically, the goal is to meet the objectives of our clients effectively. Good facility evaluations are a means to objectively evaluate whether we have achieved the goals we intended to achieve. This presentation describes a well-designed evaluation process. The material was specifically developed to instruct firms and healthcare organizations in the art and science of evaluation research. The idea of conducting valid and reliable research outside of the academy has been challenged by many who question the capability of designers to conduct legitimate evaluations. This presentation rebuts that theory.

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How Lean Operations and Planning can Impact the Hospital of the Future

10/7/2010, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

Presented by: Terrie Kurrasch, FACHE, Senior Strategist/Planner, RATCLIFF

Lean thinking" is based on the removal of waste from a system - a premise of which many are familiar. The concept has been with us for several years in the form of time-motion studies, "spaghetti diagrams" and so on. Lean practices have begun to come into their own on the construction side of a project through the use of building information management systems (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). But what about the pre-design phase of a project? Is there a need for lean thinking here as well? This webinar will briefly talk about different planning tools that should be strongly considered when planning the hospital of the future, keeping in mind that removing waste and enhancing workflow and quality will have a positive impact on staff efficiency, patient satisfaction and the bottom line for the organization. But lean thinking needs to carry over and coordinate with the construction side of the project as well. The presenters will provide examples of how hospitals and systems are using lean practices from project conception through construction as the foundation for planning for the future.

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Hospital of the Future - Revisited

10/21/2010, 1 – 2 p.m .EST

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LEAN Design

Date TBD, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

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LEED - Sustainable Design and Healthcare

Date TBD, 1 – 2 p.m. EST

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