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This guide focuses on the design, construction, and operation of decarbonized new hospital buildings and major renovations.

Meet regulatory requirements while maximizing operational efficiency and quality of care in your health care facilities.

This guide focuses on the design, construction, and operation of decarbonized new hospital buildings and major renovations.

Free PDF: A Back-to-Basics Approach to Infection Control and Emergency Management for Health Care Facilities

Achieve the facility you want. With information specific to health care facilities, these guidelines assign accountability for actual building performance to the entire project team, including the health facility commissioning authority.

The ASHE Mechanical Systems Handbook is a comprehensive guide to designing, operating, and maintaining mechanical systems in health care facilities.

ASHE's Handbook Series and education courses cover topics like project management, compliance, finance, and more for health care facility management.

This handbook lays out the processes and flow of a health care project, including planning, design and construction. It takes a sequential approach to each topic, addressing planning first, then the various design phases, construction of the project, and the operations and management throughout the project and following.

This guidebook seeks to help health care facilities managers start down the path to a successful RCM program. It reviews the basics of RCM, details the steps involved in planning and implementing an RCM program in a health care facility, provides the knowledge and tools needed to navigate through that process, and highlights features that will lead to a successful and productive program.

This book outlines critical information that contractors, subcontractors, and others need to know when working on health care projects, including infection prevention practices, utility system shutdowns, and more.

A step-by-step guide for developing a comprehensive integrated fire protection and life safety inspection, testing and maintenance (ITM) program for health care facilities. This timely publication will support facilities managers ahead of CMS’s adoption of NFPA 101-2018 (or later), which will require integrated life safety ITM for all high-rise buildings.

Introduction to Health Care Facilities Management: This award-winning, in-depth 130+ page introductory book provides an orientation to the dynamic field of health care facilities management. Along the way, we provide tips and anecdotes from seasoned health care professionals that will be valuable to newcomers, engaging to experienced HFMs and thought-provoking to other health care professionals.