Panelists to discuss how healthcare facility design can address industry changes, resulting in improved patient outcomes, increased efficiency and reduced costs
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., and CLEVELAND, April 8, 2015 – How does the design of healthcare facilities affect patient outcomes? How are changes under the Affordable Care Act shaping today’s outpatient facilities? How are demographic changes affecting healthcare design? What are the latest innovations?
These and other questions in healthcare design will be explored April 29-May 1 at the 2015 BOMA International Medical Office Buildings (MOBs) & Healthcare Facilities Conference.
Building on the popularity of the “Why Design Matters” session presented at last year’s conference, BOMA plans this year to present three sessions exploring emerging trends in healthcare design.
One of those design sessions will be moderated by Jonathan Winer, Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Seavest Healthcare Properties. Seavest, which is also a Platinum Sponsor of the conference, is a sector-focused fund manager investing in medical office buildings, outpatient projects, and specialized treatment facilities that are strategic to hospitals.
Mr. Winer will lead an expert panel titled “Designing for the Future: How Changes in Outpatient Facility Design are Delivering a Better Patient Experience and Greater Cost Efficiency,” scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 1. The panelists will include Kirk Hamilton, Fellow and Associate Director of the Center for Health Systems & Design and Professor of Architecture, Texas A&M University; Joan Saba, Partner, NBBJ; Jeff Kent, Managing Director, Corporate Facilities, Nemours Children’s Hospitals; and Rick Hale, Vice President, Ambulatory Strategy, Centura Health.
The session will focus on how recent powerful shifts from volume to value and from inpatient to outpatient have led healthcare providers to transform the design of ambulatory facilities to better serve patients and reduce costs and to examine the new challenges and opportunities these design changes bring.
“In this session, our expert panelists will lend their thoughts and experience on how today’s healthcare facility design is truly changing the way health systems deliver care – by leveraging new technologies, addressing key demographic changes in the patient base, providing the best workforce solutions and improving patient outcomes,” Mr. Winer explains.
In addition to Mr. Winer’s General Session, there are two other hour-long breakout design sessions at this year’s BOMA MOB conference on Thursday, April 30. “Design for Change” will explore how design is being used for better outcomes for providers and patients through features such as electronic registration and group visits. “Design for Retail” will focus on the challenges and opportunities of the growing trend to place healthcare services in retail settings including finding the right building, the right location in the right market, and branding.
Why the expanded focus on design?
“Last year’s ‘Why Design Matters’ session resonated with the healthcare executives, architects, developers and educators attending our conference,” Mr. Winer says. “So we knew there was a need for a deeper, more expansive discussion of how advances in design could help ambulatory facilities deliver care in both a cost effective and patient friendly environment.”
“Design of healthcare facilities in today’s changing environment is an important, compelling and timely topic that representatives from all sectors of the healthcare industry want to explore, and in response to that need, we are excited to bring answers from the top experts in the sector,” adds Amy Chisholm, Vice President, Education and Meetings, BOMA. “The information to be presented by those in the know, who are changing the design of healthcare facilities every day to meet new needs and challenges, will be a great addition to our 2015 conference.”
Seavest and the law firm Mayer Brown Rowe will also co-sponsor the Conference Networking Reception to be held from 4:45 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 30.
It is anticipated that more than 900 hospital and medical practice group executives and healthcare real estate professionals will attend this year’s BOMA MOBs and Healthcare Facilities Conference. For more information the event, which will be held at the Cleveland Convention Center and the attached Global Center for Health Innovation in downtown Cleveland, please visit: www.boma.org/MOB.
About BOMA International
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International is a federation of 91 BOMA U.S. associations and 17 international affiliates. Founded in 1907, BOMA represents the owners and managers of all commercial property types including 10.4 billion square feet of U.S. office space that supports 1.8 million jobs and contributes $227.6 billion to the U.S. GDP. Its mission is to advance a vibrant commercial real estate industry through advocacy, influence and knowledge. Learn more at www.boma.org.
About Seavest Healthcare Properties, LLC
Seavest Healthcare Properties, LLC is a sector-focused real estate investment management firm that joint ventures with established developers to build new properties, acquires existing properties, and asset manages medical office buildings, outpatient facilities and similar healthcare real estate assets. A pioneer in this sector, Seavest made its first healthcare real estate investment in the mid-1980s. Today, the firm has a significant portfolio of medical office and outpatient properties which are held in dedicated healthcare real estate investment funds. For more information, please visit www.SeavestHCP.com or call (914) 683-8474.
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