Improve your ability to accurately apply key construction concepts unique to the health care setting.
Prepare yourself and your project team to work in the health care physical environment, which is different than other construction locations. Avoid potential patient safety risks through discovering the expectations hospital owners have related to the identification, mitigation, management and documentation of unique health care construction risks.

About
Ensure that you and your organization can leverage a patient-first mindset during all phases of construction projects. Expand your project leadership to understand how to best collaborate with health care facilities to ensure accurate code compliance and proper risk assessment. Learn the necessary concepts through e-learning prework. Follow with practicing effective solutions during the hands-on workshop to discover what owners, staff and patients expect of contractors working in health care environment.

What you will learn:
Review the key concepts applied during health care construction projects.
Identify necessary strategies to successful risk assessment before, after and during construction, including steps to infection prevention.
Discuss mitigation, management and documentation of the health care construction processes.
Apply all necessary concepts during hands-on case studies.

Topics
The health care environment overview and the planning, design and construction process
Pre-construction risk assessment (PCRA)
Health care technology
Fire and life safety
Medical gas systems
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems
Infection control and infection control risk assessments (ICRA)

Who should attend?
General contractors
Subcontractors
Health care equipment providers
Health care facility managers
Construction project managers
Infection preventionists

Continuing Education Credits (CECs)
17.5 CEC (equivalent to 17.5 contact hours)
-12.5 CECs for the 2-day Workshop
-5 CECs for the e-Learning Prerequisite (e-learning log in information will be sent in a separate email within TWO business days of receipt of your registration confirmation). E-learning MUST be complete before attending the 2-day Workshop

This is an official ASHE program being hosted by the Construction Education Center, Inc. Pricing, registration, and coordination of these events are determined by the Construction Education Center, Inc. Registrations for this program are not transferable to other ASHE courses.