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Speaker: Tatiana GuimaraesLearn how to identify the urgent need to challenge existing design practices and how designers accommodate this continuous change through flexibility and vision. This presentation highlights four different case studies that defy the current surgery design model. 

Speakers: Erica Larson and John RyanLearn about the significant need for mental health services and facilities, the hurdles of navigating a specific legislative process, and the shifts in design for today’s non-institutionalized psychiatric settings. 

Speakers: Rebecca Lewis, Scott Miller, Jennifer Aliber, and Peter L. BardwellThis forum reviews recurring code issues, explores case studies, and discusses improvements to the codes that regulate the programming and planning of hospitals and health care facilities. 

The purpose of the AIA/AAH PDC Planning + Design Student Challenge is to produce a compelling design-to-budget proposal with teammates drawn from a hat. This roundtable discussion with student faculty advisors covers team development and collaboration, and the issues and lessons addressed are not unlike those encountered by teams in real life. 

Speakers: Walt Vernon and Jason D’AntonaThis session discusses how the evolution of demand factors for health care facility electrical systems have become irrelevant to today‘s health care facilities field.  

Speakers: Cathleen Lange, Paula Wright, Teresa Wilson, Shawn Seaman, and Alison FaecherDiscover the story, process, and solutions architects and health care leaders take to eliminate health care-associated infections.  

Speakers: Kirsten Waltz and Rebecca LewisLearn about the flexible requirements and how to address a variety of projects types, from small clinics or doctor’s offices to tenant improvements in larger buildings to large medical office buildings with multiple clinical services.  

Speakers: Bryan Langlands and Kevin MatuszewskiReview revisions to the 2018 FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities, focusing on the sections that address exam/treatment, procedure, operating, and imaging rooms.  

Speakers: Dana Swenson, Wade Rudolph and Doug EricksonLearn about how key factors that influenced changes across the 2018 documents, including the decision to separate hospital and outpatient facilities, to better address the unique requirements for these facility types.  

The ASHE CMS State Operations Manual Appendix A Crosswalk provides A-Tag information along with the related codes and standards applicable to the requirements for each A-Tag. To ensure that the tool is relevant to health care facility professionals, it focuses specifically on A-Tag requirements that affect the physical environment.

Barrier Management Symposium Video SeriesImprove your barrier management strategies and avoid some of the top citations through this video series. Then, take the following quiz to earn 12 CECs."A great resource for all frontline staff, contractors, and healthcare leaders."

Health facility managers should start with an accurate inventory of all fire alarm and suppression devices to assure that the requirements are met. ASHE has created a sample template to track the inventory and compare it against testing completed throughout the year.

 

This document provides a comparison of the regulations applicable to most hospitals. It is important to verify the editions of the codes and standards that are applicable in your jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions may have adopted a different edition of the building code for construction. Many states have adopted other editions of the NFPA’s Life Safety Code®. For additional information, contact your state agency responsible for licensing hospitals.

Speakers: Tim Peglow, Pamela Redden, Richard Rucksdashel, Jayson CasalloThis presentation addresses the facility implications in planning for infection transmission prevention, recommendations for developing an infection prevention team, and insights from project leaders. 

Identify the risks in health care settings and how to reduce them by applying fundamental facility design principles related to biocontainment.

Hospitals and health systems are working to address the environmental risks associated with the care of patients at risk for suicide and self-harm. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently creating comprehensive interpretive guidance, which will incorporate Joint Commission patient safety recommendations. To help hospitals and other health care facilities understand and implement these recommendations, ASHE is developing tools and resources for members.

This Useful Service Life (USL) Assessment Tool and Facilities Condition Index (FCI) Calculator tool will allow you to calculate your infrastructure health.