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Welcome

The Health Care council welcomes facilities managers working for hospitals and other related organizations. Members learn about the latest innovations in the field, tour health care facilities and network with other professionals.

The Health Care Council (HCC) consists of 500 hospital administrators, facility managers, design and construction professional, consultants, vendors and students serving academic medical centers and community hospitals, retirement facilities, and specialty hospitals and clinics. As a council of IFMA, our goal is to holistically enhance the skills of facility management professionals within the health care industry and to further the profession overall.  We host educational sessions and networking events at most of the national health care conferences and for three years have co-produced a seminar about High Performance Hospitals and Sustainability that traveled across the United States.  The HCC gained national attention in 2007 for the development of its model Green Patient Room. Redesigned in 2009 and now called the Green Patient Lab, it has been exhibited widely across the United States and in Canada.  In October 2007, the Council signed a formal agreement with ASHE to partner on education of our members and benchmarking research.

Are you already an IFMA member and want to become a member of the Health Care Council? Click here. or contact Jeannie Nguyen Council Liaison at jeannie.nguyen@ifma.org

 

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What's New?

Available Now! O&M Benchmarks for Health Care Facilities Report.

We are pleased to announce the completion of the first significant benchmarking report in health care facility management operations as a combined effort of IFMA’s Health Care Council and American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE).  This recently released report contains operations and maintenance data for acute care hospitals, medical centers, critical access hospitals and rehabilitation centers. Annual utility, maintenance, environmental services, waste and linen service costs are reported using dollar per square foot and dollar per adjusted discharge measurements. Staffing data and energy consumption data are also included.

 

You can now purchase the report at IFMA’s bookstore.

 

IFMA/ASHE health care study

The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) are jointly conducting a benchmarking survey devoted solely to health care facility operations and maintenance issues The goal of this project is to collect a sufficient amount of data and develop a benchmarking tool that allows facility managers to compare their facilities operational performance to that of other similar health care organizations and relate it to common business financial terms. Moreover, the benchmarking results can be used to continually improve operational efficiency within health care facilities.

 

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HCC organizes Health Care Design 2010 FM track IFMA-HC has developed two 2-hour workshops and nine educational sessions for the Healthcare Design Conference 2010 in Las Vegas this fall.  It is the first time a full fledged FM track has been included in this conference, which annually draws upwards of 3,000 healthcare professionals.   

Further, the track encompasses the most diverse, timely range of healthcare facilities management topics ever assembled for a conference of this magnitude.  The owners of Healthcare Design awarded full authority to IFMA-HC for development of the FM track. The workshops begin on November 13 and continue on November 15-16.

Click here to view IFMA Health Care Council Tracks.

Have you heard?

With the Corporate, Realty, Design & Management Institute, the HCC is launching a new podcast series. Listen anytime/anywhere! The first two, on sustainability, are available for download here.

IFMA Foundation - FMpedia

Help others learn the language of FM. The IFMA Foundation is proud to bring you FMpedia, an accessible glossary of 800 to 900 descriptions, terms and abbreviations related to facility management.  Here is the link to a recorded version of a short introductory webinar to learn more about this new tool http://ifma.acrobat.com/p58355781/. IFMA Foundation Trustee Eric Teicholz, IFMA Fellow gives a brief overview of how it works and how you can provide definitions from your industry. You can explore FMpedia on your own by clicking on this link http://www.gsishare.com/ifma/FMpedia/index.html.

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