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Support services’ role in patient satisfaction

Sep 3, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick |Herman McKenzie |Lennon Peake |Allison Ellis

The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, while heavily weighted toward nursing care questions, also highlights opportunities for maintenance and housekeeping staff to play a supportive role. Though not clinical in nature, the contributions of these departments are crucial in complementing and enhancing patient care and satisfaction by maintaining a clean and quiet environment, both of which are addressed in HCAHPS questions.
ASHE members, in their own words

Aug 15, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick |John Mccormack

Members of the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) come from a variety of professional backgrounds — from health care facilities managers, infection preventionists and risk managers to health care facilities planners and architects — at every stage of their careers. The Voices of ASHE series was launched in 2020 to give ASHE members a platform to share their individual professional experiences.
ASHE members use their voices to create code change

Aug 15, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick |John Mccormack

Regulations, codes and standards aren’t bureaucratic rules created to satisfy “just in case” scenarios. They are often based on the lessons of past catastrophic incidents and informed by the people who lived — and learned — through the experiences. The serious implications of regulations, or a lack thereof, in the health care field warrants undivided attention from facilities professionals both in enforcing the rules and creating them. But health care regulations can’t become static.
2024 Hospital Construction Survey results

Mar 14, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick |Jamie Morgan

High inflation and low skilled labor availability continued to hammer health care construction over the last year. Mix in supply chain shortages, which are still limiting the availability of key equipment and building materials, and it’s easy to see why hospital construction managers may be banging their hard hats in frustration.
AEC professionals weigh in on health care building trends

Mar 14, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick |Jamie Morgan

Click the chart above and use the arrows to view data from the ASHE/HFM 2024 Hospital Construction SurveyThird-party architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals serving the health care field are also feeling the sting of rampant cost increases and project delays, according to the 2024 Hospital Construction Survey conducted annually by the American Society for Health Care Engineering’s Health Facilities Management magazine.
ASHE launches new initiatives to help health care facilities decarbonize

Jan 28, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick

While sustainability has become the focus of increased attention in recent years, energy and resource management practices are not new. Since the first health care facilities manager was handed an electric bill, health care organizations have been looking for ways to conserve energy use and manage costs. What’s different in today’s world is the ever-growing urgency to reduce the use of utilities and other resources, not just as a matter of frugality but also responsibility.
ASHE program empowers sustainability efforts

Jan 28, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick

ASHE’s Energy to Care Treasure Hunt events were the basis for its new HealQuest program. Knowing where to start a sustainability effort — or how to leverage it into operational cost-savings — can be a daunting task.
Managing sustainability’s balancing act in health care

Jan 28, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Chris Dimick

Poeling discusses sustainability initiatives at a client’s facility. For Tom Poeling, PE, CEM, CCP, managing sustainability efforts is like walking a tightrope. As the director of energy and sustainability at U.S. Engineering Service, a Midwest-based mechanical contractor, Poeling enjoys the balancing act of weighing environmental benefits with economic outcomes. “I really enjoy trying to unravel that mystery,” Poeling says.