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Hybrid Operating Rooms: Infrastructure Impacts
One reason hybrid operating room renovations are so challenging is the number of consultants and vendors involved. This week we discuss seven techniques we have found to be effective in bringing a...
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Reconsidering Inpatient Infrastructure Expenditures
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, many organizations struggle with the inherent conflict between cost-effective care and aging/overbuilt acute care facilities. Will reform improve patient...
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Don’t Automatically Assume You Must Replace the Oldest Equipment First
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, many organizations struggle with the inherent conflict between cost-effective care and aging/overbuilt acute care facilities. Will reform improve patient...
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Be Lean, Save Time, Save Money: Pre-Select and Standardize Medical Equipment...
Prior to the capital approval of any design and construction project, hospital Directors of Facilities and BioMed/Purchasing leaders should predetermine customized selection standards for medical and...
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What Hospital Facilities Engineers Should Know About the 2012 International...
Prior to December 2014, most hospital facility directors had the option of whether to pursue commissioning for new construction or renovation projects. However, fifteen states (shown below in orange)...
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Why Hospitals Pay More for Cheap Lights
Typically the payback period of LED lighting is less than twenty-four months. But the value of its improvements in the quality of care? Priceless. Quality LED lighting prevents the healthcare...
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How To Not Be in the News for a Legionella Outbreak
With the recent reports of Legionella in the news, many facility managers wonder if an outbreak could happen at their hospital. It can. The following environments in healthcare facilities offer the...
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Why a Hospital Facility Director Should be Scared of the Dark
As kids, we were all a little scared of the dark. But when the lights go out in your hospital facilities, how much more afraid of the dark are you now? Some hospital facility directors may feel safe...
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Temperature Complaints? One Way Facility Directors Can Resolve
Many hospital facilities receive a plethora of “too hot/too cold” complaints from staff. Maintenance personnel may have no choice but to apply band-aid solutions to rapidly address user...
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What’s the Least Expensive Way to Solve Chiller Issues?
Most hospital facilities we work with have chilled water system issues. These issues tend to manifest as hot offices, unstable OR temperatures, or concerns of critical equipment failure. Many hospitals...
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Believe These 5 Myths about Facility Condition Assessments at Your Peril
There is a lot of misinformation swirling around about how hospitals can benefit from Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs.) Do you know what is true and what is not? Here are some of the most common...
View ArticleWhat’s the Least Expensive Way to Solve Water Chiller System Issues?
Most hospital facilities we work with have chilled water system issues. These issues tend to manifest as hot offices, unstable OR temperatures, or concerns of critical equipment failure. Many hospitals...
View ArticleHow To Not Be in the News for a Legionella Outbreak
With the recent reports of Legionella in the news, many facility managers wonder if an outbreak could happen at their hospital. It can. The following environments in healthcare facilities offer the...
View ArticleTemperature Complaints? One Way Facility Directors Can Resolve
Many hospital facilities receive a plethora of “too hot/too cold” complaints from staff. Maintenance personnel may have no choice but to apply band-aid solutions to rapidly address user...
View ArticleWhy a Hospital Facility Director Should be Scared of the Dark
As kids, we were all a little scared of the dark. But when the lights go out in your hospital facilities, how much more afraid of the dark are you now? Some hospital facility directors may feel safe...
View ArticleWhy Hospitals Pay More for Cheap Lights
Typically the payback period of LED hospital lighting is less than twenty-four months. But the value of its improvements in the quality of care? Priceless. Quality LED lighting prevents the healthcare...
View ArticleHow to Clear the Air in Emergency Departments
By Allen Smith, Senior Mechanical Engineer Preventing infections is a challenge in any emergency department. In particular, communicable infections like tuberculosis, measles, and influenza can be...
View ArticleDesign Your ASC with a Safe and Dependable Medical Gas and Vacuum System
By Scott Cathey, Senior Plumbing Designer Reliable medical gas and vacuum systems are at the pinnacle of patient care. They provide life-supporting gases that are crucial for the proper treatment of...
View ArticleBehavioral Health: Beware the Unknown
Healthcare spaces are designed to look and feel like home. Behavioral health spaces consider a more important factor: patient safety. The post Behavioral Health: Beware the Unknown appeared first on...
View ArticleClash Prevention: Improving BIM Coordination
Leveraging new and current technology to improve our design methodology is at the core of what we strive for. One tool we use improves design team coordination and thereby our deliverable documents and...
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