Micro-Hospitals: Healthcare for the Community
2022-HCKC05
Included in subscription
1.00
LU|HSW
4.54
Course expires on: 06/13/2025
Description
As healthcare systems are looking for innovative ways to bring hospital services to rural communities and neighborhoods, healthcare architecture is challenged to include all the requirements of a licensed 24/7 hospital within a footprint that is a fraction of a traditional hospital while simultaneously designing a community-friendly building that still reflects the healthcare system’s branding.
This course will present case studies of four micro-hospitals – each having its own unique solution while staying true to the micro-hospital model.
Hosted by the Academy of Architecture for Health AIA Knowledge Community.
Course expires 06/12/2025
Learning Objectives
Explore micro-hospital definition regarding services, HC system integration and location in provision of health care services not otherwise available.
Understand Micro hospital’s staffing model as integral for operational success in achieving efficiencies while providing best possible patient safety and comfort.
Avoid pitfalls of large hospital mindset leading to cost prohibitive delivery of care.
Review the different model realizations of micro hospitals and the potential of micro-hospital as anchor to medical office building to provide enhanced services to the covered population.
Recorded live on June 14, 2022.
Architecture makes a difference in people’s lives and it’s exciting to be a part of that process. As an Architect and Project Manager for the past 30 years, Renee is proud to materialize the building design for the benefit of our healthcare clients and the building users. She works as the primary point of contact, coordinating the design, engineering, vendors, and owner team members from the beginning to the very end of a project. With Renee, clients can always expect a level-headed approach whether it is addressing problems, harnessing opportunities, or implementing solutions. She believes the design/construction process should be engaging and fun for everyone across the entire project, while creating a sense of pride in the result.
Throughout his career, Eric has provided solutions to strategic, operational, and technical problems for a wide spectrum of clients. As an architect, planner, real estate developer, owner’s representative, and management consultant, he helped create and implement fundamental transformations in multiple business sectors. Focused exclusively on healthcare facilities for the past 25 years, Eric led strategic and market planning, feasibility analyses, site acquisitions, peer reviews, facility master planning, program management, and development / construction projects, working with the senior leadership of many healthcare institutions and systems. Since retiring from that world, he has provided pro bono services for trauma facilities in developing countries. Eric holds degrees from Brown University (BA) and Yale (MArch and MBA.) He lives with his wife Ann in a home they designed and built in the Cascade foothills near Seattle.