Two Northwest Medical Centers decided to pursue the highest levels of LEED® certification. The Center for Health & Healing was the first Platinum rated healthcare building in the nation. Hear the strategies that led them to achieve this, along with the challenges to standard practice, their integrated design approach, and the lessons learned along the way. Providence Newberg Hospital was the first healthcare facility to achieve LEED Gold. Gain insight from evaluating their performance over the past year and a half of operations. This session enables attendees to:
•State the principles of integrated design as they apply to master plans and complex healthcare projects.
•Evaluate projected performance, as well as actual performance, and explore the cause for any variance.
•Demonstrate a variety of tools to evaluate performance, particularly in the key areas of: User Experience, Clinical Operations, and Building Infrastructure.