Your facilities are one of your healthcare institution's most visible physical assets.
So, why wouldn't you want Healthcare Facilities Improvements to improve operational efficiency?
The number 1 way to improve healthcare operational efficiency is by collecting quality data and insights during facility condition assessments across all healthcare facilities.
From aging infrastructure to ensuring health and safety compliance to shrinking budgets, facility managers in the healthcare sector are tasked with various constraints. Therefore, facility executives must know how every building, physical asset, and the system performs. In addition, the facility manager must be aware of areas for potential facility optimization that goes above and beyond energy savings.
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Here we discuss four ways that Facility Condition Assessments (FCA) will improve your healthcare operational efficiency and make your facilities management job more manageable.
Healthcare Facilities Assessment
1. Know what you have
Healthcare Facility Condition Assessments provide the facilities teams with a comprehensive list of the current state of all physical assets. Healthcare Facility Condition Assessments will give your team a 360-degree view of the current state of all existing facilities, systems, and physical assets.
More than simply a hospital or standalone care unit, at Intellis, we know that today's healthcare organizations are made up of hundreds and thousands of individual components that must all be maintained like a well-oiled machine daily.
Healthcare Facility Condition Assessments aim to answer four critical questions:
- What do we own?
- What condition is it in?
- What are the values and liabilities?
- What is the plan for the future?
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Knowing the answers to these questions is essential for the success of any healthcare institution. On a basic level, the Healthcare Facility Condition Assessment is a review of the material condition of assets, the ease of access outside and inside the facility, the functionality of operating equipment, the performance, and the estimated remaining useful life of physical assets based on the Healthcare Building Owners and Managers Association standards, and estimated costs for repairs versus replacements.
This thorough examination of each Healthcare building, system, and component offers facility managers and executives a comprehensive view of the current state of existing facilities so that they can prioritize repairs and upgrades and forecast future capital investments.
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2. Keep capital planning executives informed
Regarding forecasting budgets and long-term investments, Healthcare Facilities Condition Assessments are a valuable tool for healthcare organizations. Our FOUNDATION Solution can help streamline facility condition inspections by providing you with best-in-class workflows and costing libraries that consider industry-wide replacement value benchmarked against deferred maintenance deficiencies. In addition, this data gives executives a full-spectrum view of the status of existing assets across all facilities.
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The data collected during an FCA is a valuable tool for long-range planning. It enables Healthcare Executives to make decisions based on comprehensive reports and provides a strategic framework for planning future improvements.
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3. Ensure compliance
This is one of the most important aspects of a healthcare facility manager's job and is one of the most headache-inducing and time-consuming. Healthcare organizations are under constant pressure from The Joint Commission and other compliance entities to ensure that facilities meet stringent patient and staff safety requirements. A Healthcare Facility Condition Assessment identifies potential problem areas concerning critical life safety requirements, including emergency management procedures, sterilization, infection control, gas storage, and other hazardous materials.
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The FOUNDATION Facility, Capital Planning platform, tracks these compliance elements and recommends solutions. In addition, our platform leverages data from your Healthcare Facility Condition Assessment to develop a prioritization strategy. For example, visually, a leaky roof is an urgent priority. However, a Healthcare Facility Condition Assessment identifies life safety code violations such as the improper transport and storage of hazardous chemicals, which is a much higher priority regarding patient and staff safety. With the help of Facility Capital Planning software, it is easier to prioritize and analyze data points from your Healthcare Facility Condition Assessment against health and safety regulations. Therefore, you can ensure the highest quality of compliance for your entire healthcare environment.
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4. Make data-driven decisions
Facility assessments support everyday decision-making that is backed by real-time information and insights. Facility management platforms, like The FOUNDATION Solution, are designed to process the large amount of data collected during a facility assessment and package it into a digestible, simplified, mobile-friendly report that enables you and your management team to make decisions on the fly quickly.
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For example, FOUNDATION offers a dynamic condition model of your healthcare organization's entire physical asset portfolio. This enables you to prioritize and categorize assessment data and integrate it directly into your maintenance, capital project, and budgetary planning.
The FOUNDATION Solution takes this one step further with its mobile component, allowing your team to stay connected inside and outside the office. Our mobile-enabled platform provides project overviews, analyses, building biographies, and deficiency condition reports. Furthermore, you can upload photos directly from the field into the platform, add comments, and even view estimated repair costs.
Would you be ready to take your following healthcare facility condition assessment to the next level? Schedule your demo today!
