With healthcare now 17% of GDP, strategic facility investments, which achieve population health management and integrated care are critically important to healthcare decision makers. Developing space for delivering team oriented primary care medical home care, preventative education, medically integrated health and wellness, expanded outpatient diagnostics and outpatient surgery will serve to enhance market share capture [...]
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The Change Agent for Health
Located in the heart of southwestern Nebraska is a progressive healthcare system with a clear vision of the future of healthcare. Tri Valley Health System (www.trivalleyhealth.com) located in Cambridge, NE understands that as the community healthcare provider, they stand as the leaders and change agents for the future of the community. Life in this area [...]
Leadership For/Beyond Architecture: AIA 2013
The upcoming 2013 AIA conference in Denver is focused on “Leadership for Architecture” and “Leadership Beyond Architecture,” and will examine architects’ roles as civic leaders. In an effort to understand what these themes mean for architects in the community, we asked several architects at Neenan for their perspective on the theme. Below are our questions, [...]
Simulation Modeling With Michelle Fisher, Nick Poro and Megan Ellis
Would you like to know how your building feels before it is built? Would you like to ‘try it on’ for size? Or flow? If so, simulation modeling is for you! This very powerful and comprehensive analytical tool can mimic real life processes and help you make informed decisions when building a new facility, making [...]
Experimenting with couches, curtains, and collaboration
What if your manager gave your team $250 per person to remake your office? Would you take him or her up on it? We did. Instead of moving our systems furniture that while comfortable, restricted any nimble mobility for teams, we decided to throw caution to the wind and experiment with new furniture, new team [...]
Design for Embodied Energy: Going Beyond LEED Platinum with the Powerhouse Energy Institute at Colorado State University
When we last wrote about the partnership between The Neenan Company and the Powerhouse Energy Institute earlier this year, we spoke of the exterior plans for the project’s design with Bob Hosanna. In Part 2 of this series on the project, we speak with Bob Hosanna and Michelle Goodwin to catch a glimpse of how [...]
Mark Graban on Healthcare Kaizen: A Review by Miguel Burbano and Whitney Churchill
In this new book, Graban and Swartz offer a new and innovative approach towards improving the healthcare delivery system. Unlike previous attempts by too many others, the book introduces the reader to the concept of “Kaizen”, often described as the source of Toyota’s transformation into an auto giant, acclaimed worldwide for its quality and service. [...]
Leading an Industry in Quality Assurance and Quality Control (Part 2): An interview with Mike Stajduhar
In June of 2012, Mike Stajduhar was formally announced as the Quality Assurance Director for TNC, responsible for developing and implementing TNC’s Quality Program, with an overriding maxim of “Getting people to work together to design and build it right the first time.” We recently had the opportunity to interview Mike about the Neenan QA [...]
Leading an Industry in Quality Assurance and Quality Control (Part 1): An interview with Mike Stajduhar
In June of 2012, Mike Stajduhar was formally announced as the Quality Assurance Director for TNC, responsible for developing and implementing TNC’s Quality Program, with an overriding maxim of “Getting people to work together to design and build it right the first time.” We recently had the opportunity to interview Mike about the Neenan QA [...]
Moving forward: Healthcare reform rolls on
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement states that improving health care delivery in the United States requires a focus on three core areas: improving the experience of care improving the health of populations reducing per capita costs of health care. But achieving this triple aim means new skills and knowledge for care providers and comprehensive transformation [...]
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