The process of designing a healthcare facility has a special mission: to have a positive impact on its many users—including patients, families, visitors, nurses, physicians, and other clinical and non-clinical staff—while simultaneously fostering cost-effective operations. To achieve the best outcomes, it is important to involve a variety of stakeholders. An informed group can help to ensure a more efficient working process with architects and engineers, and can contribute to stronger, more broadly-based and more cost-effective decisions.
This course introduces the must-know concepts and related terminology of healthcare facility planning. The course touches on those aspects of capital improvement projects that a manager or stakeholder might encounter in a healthcare setting, including working from a budget to estimate potential sizing of facilities, estimating costs, and recognizing key features of architectural and engineering drawings. At the conclusion of the course, you will be a more intelligent consumer of information and a more effective participant in the healthcare facility planning and design process.
AUTHORING FACULTY: Brooke Hollis
Brooke Hollis serves on the leadership team of the Sloan Program in Health Administration and works on program alumni/industry external relations. In addition to his work with alumni and industry, he mentors students, and serves as a faculty member. Beyond his appointment at Sloan, his ongoing professional consulting activities straddle the area of mergers & acquisitions and management consulting primarily for health and professional services firms. In addition to leadership roles in a number of regional, national and international professional organizations, Brooke is a past-president of the Sloan Alumni Association, and has been on the advisory boards of the College of Human Ecology and the Cornell Club of Greater Hartford.
Brooke's background includes over three decades working in both the public and private sector, serving in senior management positions in a number of organizations in the health and financial services fields. While serving as president of a national professional association, he was involved in advocacy work with the federal government on policy and financial issues. For almost a decade he was a partner and president of a private firm that developed and managed specialty outpatient clinics, ran a Durable Medical Equipment (DME) company and provided contract staffing programs for hospitals in three states. His work as a partner in mergers & acquisitions advisory firms has involved consulting and transaction advisory work in 20 states and Canada with private equity funds, and both public or privately held domestic and international companies.
"I found this course to be the most interesting. I am really glad this class was included as I think it is very important for health care design."
Victor Podpirka
Senior Analyst - Strategy and Business Development
North Shore LIJ Health