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This session follows up ongoing national benchmarking research on critical access hospitals based on the collaboration between academic researchers, designers, policy makers and FGI.

Nathan Howell, Jerry McPhail, Petra Sarah Wakefield. Join Covenant Health and Texas Tech as they detail their collaborative three-tiered approach to tackling this epidemic and removing the stigma of mental health.

Thomas Smith. This webinar will provide an overview of the newly updated Security Design Guidelines for Health Care Facilities. The 2020 edition has updated material throughout and new subject matter has been added including ED-based behavioral health facilities, long-term care facilities, and standalone emergency, urgent care and surgical care facilities.

Increase patient capacity across the country by making additional spaces for our patients via converting alternate care sites to patient space options.

Speaker: Tom Stewart and Jonathan FlanneryThe day-to-day operations of the health care environment can be overwhelming and intimidating to the point of paralysis. This session provides insight into managing the patient care environment and ensuring success as a leader in the field of health care engineering. Topics discussed include leadership skills, effective maintenance and operational strategies, and available resources.

Speaker: Dave DagenaisHealth care organizations rely on facility managers to reduce costs, but one critical way to provide value is often overlooked: leadership and advocacy efforts that can save health care organizations significant resources. This webinar will explore ways to get involved beyond your organization to help prevent unnecessary costs and to highlight your value to your organization. The webinar will cover leading proactively, creating patient-centered approaches, advocating for yourself, and avoiding reflexive, defensive actions.

Speakers: Erica Larson and John RyanLearn about the significant need for mental health services and facilities, the hurdles of navigating a specific legislative process, and the shifts in design for today’s non-institutionalized psychiatric settings. 

This monograph shows health care facility managers how to conduct succession planning for their departments and shows individuals in all positions how to develop a path for personal career development.

This monograph presents strategies facility professionals can use to develop relationships with hospital leaders and show the value of their work. The monograph includes real-world examples of facility professionals who have successfully shown the value of their departments to organizational leaders.

This monograph introduces the HCAHPS program and describes improvements health care organizations have made to increase patient satisfaction.

Speaker: Dennis FordTexas Children's Hospital created a pressure dependent spaces program that includes adoption of a national standard, a comprehensive master list of pressure dependent spaces, a plan to monitor these spaces, policies to manage repurposing of these spaces, and training of staff. 

Speakers: Gerry Kaiser and Lindsey Brackett