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May 2014
Garth Hogan, executive managing director of NKF Global Healthcare Services, comments on the 2014 BOMA International Medical Office Buildings and Healthcare Facilities Conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee, from April 30 through May 2.
While the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) and the Joint Commission continue to emphasize more extensive systems commissioning for new hospital buildings and major building renovations, it's also time to consider "clinical operations commissioning" as an effective means of identifying and addressing operational risks before any patients, staff, or visitors walk through the doors of a new facility.
"Many more [health care] providers are looking at a retail approach," said Todd Perman, executive managing director of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank's global healthcare services. Separately, Newmark's New York retail team is CityMD's brokerage.
From its stunning façade to its project delivery process, the new Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, located at the major West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps near San Diego, represents a standard for military healthcare facility design.