Name
Engineering & Facilities Track: Designing for Resilience
Date & Time
Monday, February 18, 2019, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Description

Recent natural disasters, cybersecurity threats, and acts of violence have made resiliency a top priority for hospitals and health systems.  The very nature of the healthcare facility makes it vital that it be able to provide services despite any eventuality and often just designing to code does not provide sufficient resiliency for long-term calamities.  All groups involved in the design process must work together to achieve the objectives of creating a  building that is disaster-ready, patient-friendly, flexible, and cost-effective. This session will explore the elements necessary to best prepare a hospital or healthcare facility to provide continuous, effective, and efficient care in any situation.

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the potential crisis conditions that hospitals and designers must consider when planning for resiliency.
2. Discuss key requirements of recent legislation designed to improve the safety and privacy of patients.
3. Identify methods of collaboration that can improve and streamline the design process.
4. Formulate action plans based on lessons learned from recent hospital evacuations and disaster situations.

 

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Click here to listen to the audio recording.

 

Location Name
Savannah C, 10th Floor