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The Emergency Department - Considerations for Innovation and Strategic Design


When: May 9 - May 10, 2017
Time: 9:00am Central
Where: Chicago, IL United States
What: Agenda
Price: $925 (Affiliate members log in to website to get member pricing.)
Registration was open until 5/10/2017 at 3pm, and is now closed.

$925

Join us for this seventh annual interactive, collaborative, problem-solving experience intended to enable Emergency Department professionals to employ proven physical design strategies and methodologies.

Designing a new or renovating an existing emergency department is a high stakes opportunity.  Today, more than ever, emergency department directors balance a range of competing priorities, including:

  • increased volume and patient acuity
  • primary care staffing shortages
  • overcrowding
  • delayed “up-stream” throughput, and other system bottle-necks

These challenges are coupled with the need to continually adapt to ever changing technology, ensure emergency preparedness and deliver in an era of accountable care.

Taught by nationally recognized experts, this workshop uncovers and offers a review of design methodologies, benchmark challenges inherent in today’s emergency departments, how to quantify and measure those challenges and explore innovations, processes and facility-based solutions. You will obtain insight into optimal patient flow, research-based process, design interventions and strategies that improve clinical outcomes, quality of care, and patient safety and satisfaction. 

 

Event Venue:

Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile
633 N. St. Clair Street
Chicago, IL 60611
United States

Location Information

Room rate: $264.00/night - rooms must be booked by April 17, 2017

Rooms available: 
Monday, May 8 - Tuesday, May 9, 2017

HOTEL RESERVATIONS: Click here to make your reservations with the discounted rate or call 1 - 800 - HILTONS  and mention “Emergency Department Building Design Workshop”.

LOGISTIC PACKET:
Airport Transportation Options, Hotel Information, Nearby Restaurants 

Learning Objectives

  • Consider concepts and strategies that shape the future emergency department

  • Hear case studies of emergency department design and operations

  • Put learning into practice while working through scenarios with your colleagues

  • Connect with experts that can inform your emergency department

Who Should Attend

  • Emergency department directors,  physicians, nurses and managers

  • Healthcare facilities and planning executives

  • Hospital executives with emergency department oversight

  • Healthcare architects, planners, designers, and consultants

 

Presenting Faculty

James J Augustine, M.D., FACEP
National Clinical Governance Board, US Acute Care Solutions, Canton, Ohio
Clinical Professor, Dept. Emergency Medicine, Wright State University
Vice President, ED Benchmarking Alliance
Board of Directors, American College of Emergency Physicians

 

Jon Huddy, AIA, NCARB, MArch, BA Design
President 
Huddy HealthCare Solutions

 


Adam Johnson
Service Line Director, Emergency Department
Elmhurst Hospital
 

 

James Lennon, AIA
Design Team Leader
HKS Inc. Team ED

 


Michelle Meziere, M.D.
Associate Medical Director, Emergency Services
Elmhurst Hospital
 

 

Michael Pietrzak, MD
Strategic Initiatives Consultant
HKS Inc.

 

 


Robert F. Sharrow, AIA, ACHA, EDAC 
Senior Vice President and Principal 
Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.

 

 

 

Frank Zilm, D.Arch., FAIA, FACHA
Chester Dean Director of the KU Institute for Health + Wellness Design
University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design, and Planning

 

 

 

 

Did You Know?

  • There are 136.3 million visits to U. S. Emergency Departments each year.

  • The average ER trip costs 40% more than what most Americans spend on monthly rent.

  • Recent data shows that of the 136 million ER visits per year, over 65% of them are for non-emergency problems.

 

 

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Cancellation policy: All requests for refunds must be received via email no later than 4:30 pm PDT, 21 days prior to the event.  No refunds will be given after that time.  An administrative fee, (10% of the registration cost) will be charged for all refunds. Registrations made within 21 days of the event will not be refunded.  Substitutions of attendees may be made at any time without charge. We reserve the right to offer qualified substitute presenters in the event of an emergency, illness, etc. If a particular presentation has to be cancelled, attendees are still responsible for the full amount of their registration fees. Every effort will be made to immediately notify registrants of changes or cancellations. There are no exceptions to this refund policy.