Senior VP, RADIOLOGY-Planning Founder, Gilk Radiology Consultants Overland Park, Kansas
If tomorrow you were faced with a broken scanner or a non-compliant patient, you'd probably have a range of strategies at the ready to handle the situation... but what if instead it was a new $10 million priority capital budget? Would you have a similar range of tools at the ready?
This session will look at capital projects where misunderstandings of equipment needs (or operational demands, or regulatory requirements, or staffing) led facilities to badly plan very expensive capital projects which wasted time, or money, or impaired future operations (or some combination of all three). We will highlight what errors were made, and where in the capital process these errors occurred. Ultimately, by studying the errors of others, we will arm ourselves with information on which questions to ask, and at which point in the capital project to ask them.
This session will call upon a variety of projects, some older and some more contemporary, to highlight planning & design accidents that can be avoided in your next capital projects.
Learning Objectives:
Enumerate the operational goals of a future capital project, from staffing to clinical capabilities, to throughput, to life-cycle.
Identify 'red flag' warnings that planners, developers, or contractors may be pointing your radiology capital project into trouble.
Identify potential resolutions to problems (before others even see the problems) to keep capital projects moving swiftly and producing better outcomes.