Moderator: Robert Chafin, Senior Director, Client Relations, Healthcare Business Media
Panelists: Wade Byerly, President, MERC; Glenn Hammons, LEED AP, Project Executive, Skanska USA Building Inc.; and Rodney Cadwell, Associate Principal - Medical Equipment Planning, Vizient Inc./HELP
The decentralized structure of healthcare construction projects can make it challenging to communicate and connect with various project partners. Capital equipment planners can be connected to hospitals in several different ways, including in-house, off-site and contract-based. In this session, three capital equipment planners will discuss how their roles and relationships with hospitals and health systems vary. Learn how these differences affect their planning process and best practices for communicating with capital equipment planners.
Learning Objectives:
1. Outline the three common types of equipment planning operation structures.
2. Identify the benefits and challenges of each operation structure.
3. Evaluate the best practices for connecting with each operation structure.
4. Describe expectations and strategies for working with each operation structure.