Current Trends in Healthcare Plumbing to “Future-Proof” Your Design | Lunch & Learn

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Healthcare facilities are now striving to meet the needs of all patients and caregivers to offer not only healthy and safe spaces, but inclusive spaces that can be repurposed, quickly. This course reviews innovations in plumbing design and how these designs support trending healthcare needs, such as infection prevention, behavioral healthcare, bariatric, and ADA patients. Additionally, this course will engage you in learning about a flexible, water saving and infection control enhancing plumbing trend called “vacuum plumbing”. Learn through cases studies on how vacuum plumbing has provided “future proofing” for healthcare facilities.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the design trends that benefit patients’ mental and physical health and which ones can be addressed through plumbing design.
• Discuss how proper dialysis plumbing design can protect the patient from infection and at the same time reduce plumbing construction costs.
• Define how plumbing fixture design and hand hygiene can address hospital acquired infections.
• Discuss TJC’s survey process as it pertains to business occupancies.
• Learn how plumbing design can reduce infection, reduce water consumption and “future proof” your healthcare facility.

Speakers:

Kristin Kahle
President
Whitehall Manufacturing

Kristin Kahle is President of Whitehall Manufacturing a division of Morris Group International. Whitehall manufacturers high quality plumbing products for healthcare markets with special attention to infection prevention, behavioral and universal design. Additionally, Kristin is a seasoned expert in all aspects of design/construction/manufacturing/marketing and sales.

Steve McIntosh
Director of National Sales
Whitehall Manufacturing

Steve McIntosh is Whitehall Manufacturing’s Healthcare Specialist. Whitehall Manufacturing provides the health care and rehabilitation industries with BestCare ligature resistant products for Behavioral Health, in-room patient care units and toilets, surgical scrub sinks, and physical therapy/sports medicine products that are unsurpassed in quality, function, and durability. In this position, Mr. McIntosh is responsible for coordinating sales efforts with the Whitehall’s independent representatives, and promoting products to architects, engineers, and end users. Steve McIntosh brings more than 25 years of experience in healthcare and medical sales to Whitehall Manufacturing. Before joining Whitehall, Mr. McIntosh worked as the National Business Development Manager-Plumbing Division for Component Hardware Group. In this position he led sales efforts to architects, engineers, wholesalers, and end users. In addition, McIntosh led the promotion of SANIGUARD treatment, Component Hardware.

Rodney Weeks
National Sales Coordinator
AcornVac, Inc.

Rodney Weeks is Sales Coordination Manager at AcornVac, Inc. and assists with business development by coordinating education for healthcare client teams regarding vacuum system design and operational benefits. In his role, he is also responsible for Sales Management around modular or prefabricated construction products as they relate to healthcare. He is familiar with and works across a wide range of project types including pharmacies, clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, and acute care facilities with all project stakeholders including architects, engineers, facility planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance staff. Prior to his tenure with AcornVac Rodney was Regional Manager for Becker Vacuum Pump Corporation responsible for sales in the Western US managing a network of Distributors and Representatives.

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