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1. Building the Future:
A Contractor’s Guide to Healthcare Construction Trends

2. Healthcare contractors must be prepared to adapt to
the changing needs of facilities, particularly with
regards to patient experience.

3. When You’re Done Reading This, You’ll Know...
● How critical patient experience has become to healthcare facility
construction and renovation projects
● What new trends in patient care mean for the future of facilities and
construction projects
● The technology that is creating better, more adaptable facilities to meet
the changing needs of healthcare consumers
● Why sustainability will be key in building the healthcare facilities of the
future

4. About HEPACART™
HEPACART™ was initially developed to protect
patients and improve productivity during
hospital construction, renovation and
maintenance projects.
All of our products are designed for
contractors and healthcare operations
personnel to comply with the Infection
Control Risk Assessment Guidelines to aid in
infectious disease control, dust abatement
and dust containment. HEPACART™ products
are used to protect the environment in many
types of high-risk applications.

5. The number of new hospital construction projects
assessed at $50 million or more, as of 2014.
Source: Construction Market Data
37

6. The approximate premium costs for
using best evidence-based design
Source: The Hastings Center
8%

7. Years it would take to earn ROI on
evidence-based design project
Source: The Hastings Center
3

8. Patient Experience Trumps All

9. Medicare Reimbursement
“Since July 2007, hospitals subject to the Inpatient Prospective Payment
System (IPPS) annual payment update provisions must collect and submit
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
(HCAHPS) data in order to receive their full IPPS annual payment update.”
Source: cms.gov

10. How Contractors Must Address Patient Experience
Human Centered Design: It is no longer enough to share a two-dimensional
plan for a new facility. The future has designers from a range of backgrounds
building full scale models and soliciting feedback from staff, administrators,
and the community. Human centered design focuses on how a space will really
be used, built from experience and data.

11. How Contractors Must Address Patient Experience
Fresh Amenities: No longer are a hospital cafeteria and parking garage
enough. To create a patient centered building, a variety of amenities for both
patients and their families will be emphasized in new construction and
renovation projects. This could include:
● Improved waiting areas with internet connectivity, functional for both
groups and privacy
● Furniture and space for loved ones to spend the night in patient rooms
● Health-focused experiences like farmer’s markets and exercise areas

12. How Contractors Must Address Patient Experience
Ethnography: Community feedback will be a core part of the future of
healthcare design and construction. Ethnographers can weigh in on new
designs in light of different cultural needs of the actual healthcare consumers
that will use the facility.

13. Challenges for Contractors
Undertaking a new healthcare project in the future will mean adding patient
experience to a list of must haves. In many cases, these patient experience
issues may even come to overshadow or expand budgets because it is so
critical. Contractors should be prepared to work more closely than ever with
designers and other stakeholders in creating the spaces of the future.

14. Challenges for Contractors
Contractors should be prepared to be very clear about costs. According to
Health Facilities Management Magazine (HFMM), “Standard accounting
procedures that separate capital costs and operational costs also work against
flexible designs by emphasizing first costs to the detriment of life-cycle
savings”
Source: HFMMagazine.com

15. New Treatment Strategies

16. Keeping Patients Healthy
While patient health is always an ideal outcome after treatment, going
forward we will see more emphasis on keeping patients healthy before they
ever become ill, which will mean more hospital resources and spaces
dedicated to wellness, from yoga rooms to outpatient clinics.

17. Number of people who will turn
65 between 2011 and 2029
(Based on estimates from the Census Bureau, Pew
Research Center and Social Security Administration.)
79
Million

18. Keeping Patients Out of Hospitals
As the Baby Boomer generation continues to age, they will seek more
healthcare and increasingly demand for flexible, comfortable options.
Inpatient facilities may add outpatient clinics, staff facilities for homecare
visits, and those spaces that can support ambulatory care.
Some experts project that in the future hospital revenue shift to
15% inpatient/85% outpatient.
That means a huge difference in how space is used.
Source: DPR Construction

19. Challenges to Contractors
Experience healthcare contractors may indeed begin to see per project sizes
decreasing, as hospitals renovate and reorganize rather than starting from
scratch. Says HFMM, “Current assets are very important in terms of how well
they can be repurposed or reused. For various services, we used to always
demolish the facility, but hospital administrators are now asking how we can
repurpose them.”
Source: HFMMagazine.com

20. Technological Advancements in
Medicine & Construction

21. Telemedicine: What it Is
Telemedicine or Telehealth is the process of delivering healthcare services via
the internet and/or phone. The ubiquity of smartphones and high speed
internet has meant an explosive opportunity for healthcare facilities to
expand their telemedicine services. It is particularly useful for helping patients
to manage chronic illnesses like diabetes or asthma without necessitating
office or hospital visits.

22. Telemedicine revenue growth expected through
2020 for a total of $3.5 billion.
Source: IBISWorld
40%

23. Telemedicine: What it Means for Contractors
While there is some speculation that an increase in telemedicine will mean a
decrease in construction projects, there will still be building needs for
implementing this technology.
Physicians will need spaces for consultations, that include secure, HIPAA
compliant networks. While this may not mean big, new facility construction
projects, it may very well mean smaller scale renovations and sustainable
repurposing.

24. Electronic Health Records (EHR)
EHR not only makes it easier for patients to access their own records but also
connects patients and their key data to their personal network of healthcare
workers. That means that providers can be spread further apart and more
specialized in their services without sacrificing quality of care.

25. “Smart” Buildings
Buildings that are designed for maximum efficiency -- both in terms of
building operations and in terms of staff and patient comfort -- are becoming
the new norm. Smart buildings can control climates, let patients check
themselves in, and otherwise expedite hospital processes.

26. Challenges for Contractors
Both telemedicine and smart building techniques must be definitively
integrated into new hospital construction projects. This can indeed create a
major challenge for contractors who must not only fulfill the facility’s current
needs but also predict future needs. Staying on top of these types of
technological trends will be critical going forward.

27. Sustainability Concerns

28. Sustainability in Brief
Sustainability is such a large issue in the future of all types of construction that
it would be impossible to cover every aspect of it here. Suffice to say, looking
to the future, sustainability and healthcare construction will go hand in hand.
Hospitals are major energy consumers and by building facilities that can draw
from renewable energy, lowering operating costs without sacrificing patient
care, hospitals can add even more value to their communities.

29. Conclusions

30. How to Build the Future
It is impossible to predict exactly what the future will hold for healthcare
construction, but we can be sure that technology, sustainability, and above all
patient experience will be key in designing and implementing facilities that can
continue to effectively meet the needs of a diverse group of healthcare
consumers now and into the future.

31. For more analysis of healthcare construction
trends, codes, and essential tools, visit:
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