ASHE 50th Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition 2013
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Super Storm Sandy's Impact on Essential Electrical Systems: What Went Right?
Program Code:
500
Date:
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Time:
9:10 AM to 10:00 AM
EST
PRIMARY SPEAKER
:
Jonathan Flannery,
MHSA, CHFM, FASHE, Senior Associate Director of Advocacy,
American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE)
Jonathan Flannery, MHSA, CHFM, FASHE, serves as the Senior Associate Director of Advocacy for ASHE, playing a key role in ASHEs advocacy program, which works for better codes and standards affecting health care facilities. Jonathan has more than 23 years of health care engineering experience, is a longtime ASHE member, and continues to serve as part of ASHEs educational faculty. Jonathan began his health care engineering experience working as an architectural technician for the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., where he learned the complexities of health care construction and project management. He was promoted to supervisor of maintenance and operations at the same facility, giving him the unique opportunity to see the challenging differences between design and construction and facility operations and maintenance. Jonathan also worked as the Facility Manager of the Gallup Indian Medical Center, Indian Health Service, and most recently as the Executive Director of Engineering and Operations at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Ark. Jonathan has served on a number of committees as an ASHE representative, including the International Code Councils Ad Hoc Committee on Healthcare, which is working to update codes and standards affecting health care facilities.
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Description
After Hurricane Sandy, ASHE conducted an emergency power survey of various health care facilities affected by the storm. This session will present the resulting data and the lessons learned from the survey. Topics include performance of essential electrical systems (EESs) during the storm, the leading cause of EES failure, the effect of flooding on an EES, and the lessons we can learn from Super Storm Sandy. This session will enable you to:
Describe how storms can affect an EES.
Better prepare your facility for natural disasters.
Identify the importance of EES fuel system maintenance.
Better maintain your health care facility’s EES.