Healthcare Design - December 2019 - 19

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BUILDING CONNECTION
AS PROJECT TEAMS seek ways to work better together, they're looking for
new tools and strategies to boost collaboration and deliver better results.
To help fuel new ideas, attendees at HealthPoint 2019 in Aurora, Colo.,
Sept. 22-25, participated in a roundtable discussion titled "Working Together: How Providers and Design Partners Can Achieve True Collaboration." (HealthPoint, an event where healthcare and senior living executives
meet with industry suppliers to discuss innovation for the construction,
renovation, and engineering of their facilities and communities, is produced by Healthcare Design's parent company, Emerald Expositions.)
More than 50 executives, suppliers, and design professionals participated
in the roundtable moderated by Anne DiNardo, executive editor of Healthcare Design.
To kick off the discussion, Victoria Navarro, regional director of planning, design, and construction at Advocate Aurora Health (Milwaukee),
detailed some of the work her organization has done to foster collaboration, including developing a Design and Construction Partner Program
and committing to employing integrated project delivery (IPD) for all future projects with estimated costs of more than $10 million. Navarro said
IPD has worked well, helping to establish integration among team members, improve transparency when identifying costs and risks, and foster
trust and respect as a team. While some in the group shared that not all
companies are on board with the method, many agreed that specific elements of IPD, such as early engagement of the contractor, can be valuable.
The group discussed other ideas for driving collaboration, including 3P,
Kaizen events, and mock-ups, to help engage staff and encourage more ownership and pride in the end result. One provider shared that his organization,
which uses 3P, requires all stakeholders-including the chief operating officer-to attend meetings. "Everyone has to come to the table," he said. "You
have to get everyone excited and participating early on."-AD

The next HealthPoint event will take place at the JW Marriott in Austin,
Texas, Sept. 13-16, 2020. Visit www.cpmgevents.com/healthpoint for more
information.

S AV E T H E D AT E

NEW WELL CONFERENCE TO
DEBUT IN 2020
THE INTERNATIONAL WELL Building Institute, in collaboration with the
American Society of Interior Designers and Emerald Expositions, publisher
of Healthcare Design, will introduce The WELL Conference in 2020. The
inaugural event will be held March 29-April 1 at the Fairmont Princess
Hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz. The WELL Conference is the first major gathering to focus solely on the health and well-being of people and how better
buildings, communities, organizations, products, and technologies help all
of us connect and thrive. The event is designed to offer a richly immersive
experience for attendees working across multiple sectors, from architecture
to technology to public health. Sign up to receive regular updates about The
WELL Conference, including speaker announcements, session descriptions,
registration, and sponsorship information, at thewellconference.com. 

DECEMBER 2019

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