The Judicious Use of Demolition is Key to Rightsizing a Hospital for the Future
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...
View ArticleReconsidering 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...
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticleDo Freestanding Emergency Departments Make Financial Sense?
Many would suggest that Freestanding Emergency Departments (FSEDs) are a suboptimal strategy for the following reasons: Locating FSEDs where patients are insured by the best payors rather than in...
View ArticleDelivering Value to Executives at PDC Summit 2015
Every year, the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) hosts the International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction (PDC Summit). The summit brings...
View ArticleHow the Best Hospitals Manage Social Determinants of Health
At the AONE and the Patient Experience conferences last month, three presentations stood out. Each described innovative ways to quantify and manage social determinants of health. HOME TELEHEALTH The...
View ArticleHow to Reinvent Nursing for Population Health
58% of nurses currently work in an acute care setting. But, as providers start to manage health rather than treat illness, we expect inpatient days to decline. The number of hospital-based nursing jobs...
View ArticleThree Ways Healthcare Facility Design Can Save Money
The healthcare industry must figure out how to provide services less expensively. It must implement effective cost-cutting initiatives while developing policies and procedures for managing the future...
View ArticleHow to Boost Your Ambulatory Strategy and Thwart Retail Health Threats
With population health changing the healthcare industry, a different mindset challenges us to rethink ambulatory real estate strategy. Tomorrow’s MOB tenants may compete with retail health providers...
View ArticleWhat If Better Patient Care Means Reduced Hospital Revenues?
Imagine hearing this at a conference: “Success resulted in decreased revenue for our healthcare system.” My first thought: Am I going to learn about rewarding intelligent failure in this session? Well,...
View ArticleHow to Boost Your Ambulatory Strategy and Thwart Retail Health Threats
With population health changing the healthcare industry, a different mindset challenges us to rethink ambulatory real estate strategy. Tomorrow’s MOB tenants may compete with retail health providers...
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