Is Your Emergency Department Adding to the Emergency? Developing Forward-Thinking Emergency Departments That Plan for the Unexpected

June 9, 2010
1:30 - 3:00 PM (Eastern)

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How do you plan an Emergency Department today that won’t be ready and built until a few years from now? How do you take into account what healthcare will be like in a few years, when we don’t even know how the industry will change? Will there be universal coverage? Will the ED be strictly for emergencies, or will it continue to be the main point of service for millions of uninsured people?

What you plan today will determine if your Emergency Department becomes a center of financial success or a money-sucking drain to your hospital.

How do you plan for the unknown?

Without proper planning, an ED built today stands the risk of being dangerously outdated within even a few years. This could mean at best that the ED will be inefficient, wasting time, money and resources that the hospital can’t afford to squander. At worst, it could cost patients their lives.

There are new ideas out there—ideas that will lead to optimum sustainability in Emergency Department design—and now you can hear about ideas that haven’t even left the architect’s drawing board yet and take them to your own drawing board.

Using information gathered from completed projects, projects still in the works, and interviews with industry leaders who are forging the way in ED design and concepts, architect and healthcare consultant Matthew Kennedy will examine steps you can take now to avoid crises in the future. He’ll look at what’s working, what current trends are, and many of the possible outcomes in the uncertain future of healthcare.

Don’t waste your time and resources planning facilities that won’t stand up to real emergencies and real healthcare needs in the future. Join us for this forward-thinking assessment of flexible strategies for meeting healthcare’s ever changing needs.

Learning Objectives:

• How do issues such as cost containment and universal coverage impact facility design and development for emergency departments?
• What can we learn from the specific design strategies that others are using to meet future needs that are still being defined? What are their implications for other projects?
• How can you translate and apply these ideas effectively into the design strategy for your next ED project?

Presented by:

Matthew W. Kennedy, ACHA, RA, NCARB

With almost two decades of experience as both an architect and a healthcare consultant, Matthew Kennedy has worked exclusively in the healthcare industry. Clients ranging from single physician practitioners to multi-hospital health systems have benefited from his expertise and knowledge in developing major facility projects.

His main areas of focus include business development, project leadership, strategic facility development, pre-design planning and analysis, functional and space programming, facility master planning, design development, and direct project management.

Jon W. Block is a graduate from Ball State University's College of Architecture & Planning with both a Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science of Environmental Design degrees. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, is a registered Architect in Michigan and Ohio, is NCARB certified, is a LEED Accredited Professional, and is accredited by The Center for Health Design in Evidence-Based Design (EDAC). Jon has served as Program and Project Manager for healthcare projects up to $450M, directing a multi-disciplinary staff in excess of 100 designers, architects and engineers. He believes that sustainability should not be limited just to facilities, and that an integrated approach with operations and the human condition will deliver significant bottom-line benefits. Great valued ideas delivered with extraordinary customer service are his approach to competitive differentiation and business.

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Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

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