Boston, MA – IFMA Boston Healthcare Network will present Impactful capital: A proven approach for identifying the facility investments, even those with higher first costs, that produce the most meaningful results May 21, 2013 at Children’s Hospital 1 Autumn Street, Boston. Speakers include John D’Angelo VP Engineering and Facilities Operations, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Karen Reno, Safe Health Design Managing Consultant
Joint Commission Resources, Inc.
Surveys show that, more often than not, the healthcare industry makes financial decisions on the scope of construction projects based on initial cost rather than long term value. The goal of the program will be to demonstrate how financial decisions made based on long term value rather than initial cost are more beneficial to patient care and a healthcare organization’s financial stability. The format for this Program will help:
– make the argument for long term value through a discussion involving healthcare standards and statistics and financial attitudes.
– Understand the benefits of financial decision making based on long-term operational goals rather than initial capital cost through built environment efficiency.
– Discuss the built environment impact on improved patient outcomes that provide financial payback.
– Discuss Post-Occupancy evaluation (POE) results from a strategic financial decisions perspective from actual case studies.
The IFMA Healthcare Network Co-Chairs are Sandra Soraci – DAI – DiGiorgio Associates Inc. / Director, Healthcare Strategy & Interior Designand Alison Faecher – TRO Jung Brannen / Associate Principal, Director of Interior Design.
John D’Angelo is the Vice President of Engineering and Facilities Operations at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is responsible for maintaining safe and compliant facilities and infrastructure across all campuses and overseeing business operations, energy policies, strategic engineering planning, and regulatory compliance. He also has an integral role in the implementation of the 8-Year Capital Plan. Mr. D’Angelo brings over 25 years of experience in capital improvement management, facility design and construction, facility and campus master planning, operations and maintenance, and environmental and policy development to his position. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Facilities for the Cleveland Clinic where he was responsible for overseeing facilities operations and management across the entire system. Prior to that, he held various facilities leadership positions within the U.S. Navy, and was named Pacific Engineer of the Year by the United States Department of Defense. Mr. D’Angelo received his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University and his master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland.
Karen (Kathy) Reno, PhD, MBA, RN, EDAC has over 40 years of experience in health care, with the majority of time spent in administrative roles such as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer. Dr. Reno now serves as a consultant for Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International on patient safety and safe facility design.
Health care facility design has been one of Dr. Reno’s interests for her entire career. She has worked on numerous healthcare facility building projects, including renovation as well as new construction of hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and medical office buildings. She served as co-author of the first workbook on evidence-based design and holds EDAC accreditation. She has consulted on facility design with organizations in the Middle East, Europe, China, South America, and Indonesia as well as the US. Dr. Reno has lectured on numerous topics both domestically and internationally including safe facility design, board relations, hospital finances, safety, and technology.
Dr. Reno also developed the executive nursing leadership concentration of the Doctor in Nursing Practice (DNP) program and served as faculty for the University of Illinois’s College of Nursing from 2007 till 2012. She has been active in many state and national boards and advisory groups. She served two terms on the national board for AONE and the AHA Regional Policy Board for the Midwest region. She was one of the founding board members for Nursing Spectrum, a nursing magazine published by Gannett. She served as president and multiple board and committee roles in the Illinois Organization for Nurse Leaders (IONL).
Her interest in health care technology led her to several board and advisory roles. She served on the board of the National Alliance for Healthcare Informatics (NAHIT) whose mission was to align key health care stakeholders in order to standardize health care IT systems. She also served on the American Hospital Association (AHA) and American Organization of Nurse Executives’ (AONE) Technology Task Forces as well as nursing advisory committees for McKesson Clinical Systems and Zynx, an evidence-based web subscription service owned by Hearst Publications. She has served on multiple hospital and hospice boards and committees.
Organizational recognitions received during her leadership include Solucient’s (now known as Thompson-Reuters) and Healthgrades top awards for multiple clinical excellence areas, ANCC’s Magnet™ certification, Chicago Magazine’s top 25 employers in Chicago, and Fortune Magazine’s recognition as one of America’s top 100 employers for multiple years.
Her educational background includes a diploma in nursing from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; a bachelor’s of science in nursing and management from Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; master’s in business administration in marketing from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois; and a PhD in organization development from Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois. Her professional affiliations include Sigma Theta Tau, AONE, , Council for Graduate Education in Administrative Nursing (CGEAN), ACHE, and Center For Health Design.
Agenda:
7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Registration & Breakfast
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m Presentation
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Q&A
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Networking