Join architects and facility executives for the Architecture for Health Panel/AIA Seattle Medical Design Forum to consider how design today can anticipate the healthcare facilities of tomorrow. On-site building tours include the Cherry Hill campus and the 370,000sf Orthopedic Institute at Swedish.

UPDATE: A second session of our Code Series: Healthcare Codes, Guidelines and Conditions – Putting it all together has been added on March 12, 2009! Learn the latest on health facilities code requirements with Chad Beebe AIA, Manager, Construction Review Services Program, Washington State Department of Health.

March 12, 2009 12noon – 2pm
REI Seattle, 222 Yale Ave N., Seattle
2LU/2HSW

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Are We Supersizing Healthcare?
Does your project need to go on a diet? Keynote speaker H. Scot Latimer, Vice President, Kurt Salmon Associates discusses why, when healthcare capital spending continues to rise, we only seem able to buy less each year. While construction spending inflation is partly to blame; the other factor lies in a tendency to plan ever larger space for the same functions. This session enables attendees to:
+State the forces behind the recent increases in space per key indicator in healthcare projects.
+Develop measures to determine “adequate” space for individual project needs.
+Determine methods to prudently control project size and maximize your project ROI.

CEO Roundtable
Participants include: Deborah Swets, Vice President, Membership, Washington State Hospital Association, Cal Knight, COO Swedish Health Services, Gregg Davidson, CEO Skagit Valley Hospital, and Cindy Mayo, CEO Providence Centralia Hospital.
Deborah Swets moderates this CEO roundtable representing a variety of hospitals from non-profit to large systems to public district hospitals to consider topical issues including:
+What keeps a Healthcare CEO up at night?
+How can design help solve / support the resolution of those issues?
+Does a Physician CEO make different decisions about the role of design?

Leadership for Lean Transformation in Healthcare
J. Michael Rona, Co-Founder, Rona Consulting Group and former President of Virginia Mason Medical Center
What does it take to lead an organization through a Lean transformation? Using 9 key characteristics of lean healthcare enterprises, Mike will demonstrate the magnitude of the leadership’s challenge in transforming healthcare and provide insights into how to build internal organizations to promote, support and perpetuate operational excellence while simultaneously creating a facilitative environment that develops people at all levels.

Puzzling About Tele-health: Putting The Pieces Together
Jeff Mero, Executive Director of the Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts (AWPHD)
As health professional shortages become more acute, hospitals and clinics will rely more and more telecommunications tools to support their clinical services. Jeff Mero will make the case for the role these emerging technologies will play in the near (five-seven years) term.

Politics and the future of Public Healthcare Programs
Jeff Mero, Executive Director of the Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts (AWPHD)
How politics, the elections, and the economy will effect public programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

BUILDING TOURS

1. Limited on-site Building tours at Cherry Hill Campus include:
+Seattle Science Foundation Research Institute
+Executive Assessment Suite

2. The Orthopedic Institute at Swedish (NBBJ) 370,000 square foot newly opened June 2008.

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