Early analysis of MEP and key systems through rapid performance modeling can provide energy and cost savings for owners.
Multi-layered structural design ensures safety for high-containment labs
Category: Healthcare
A healthcare simulation technology consultant can save time, money, and headaches
As the demand for skilled healthcare professionals continues to rise, healthcare simulation is playing an increasingly vital role in the skill development, compliance, and continuing education of the clinical workforce.
Food for Thought Leadership: 10 trends in healthcare content to read and share
If you are attending the 2024 Healthcare Facilities Symposium—or any other healthcare conference on the horizon—gain some insight into topics sure to be discussed formally or informally by perusing IMEG’s curated collection of our recent healthcare-related blogs, executive guides, and podcasts. “The Importance of Healthcare Resiliency: Preparing Your Hospital for a Crisis.” This executive guide
Podcast: UW Health bringing a proton center powered by the sun to Madison
This episode offers a preview of UW Health’s Eastpark Medical Center in Madison, WI. Expected to be fully open by Fall 2024, the seven-story outpatient facility will offer advanced imaging and lab services, destination services, multidisciplinary adult specialties, and women’s complex care.
Q&A with Leslie Curry, senior medical equipment planner
Leslie Curry is a Senior Medical Equipment Planner at IMEG. Her background in direct patient care brings a unique and essential perspective to the planning team. Leslie talks about the role of a medical equipment planner and how people from diverse backgrounds can be successful in this career. Q: What is a medical equipment planner?
De-escalation by Design: Making behavioral health, ER/ED facilities safer
De-escalation by Design is a security concept that creates spaces that are safe, calm, and therapeutic. It adapts tenets of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) to the indoor behavioral healthcare environment, and hospital emergency departments, to allow patients and staff dignity, respect, and agency.
Complying with USP <800> ensures safety and reduces healthcare facility risk
By Mike Zorich Over the past couple of years, I’ve been writing and presenting about the new United States Pharmacopeial General Chapter 800 “Hazardous Drugs – Handling in Healthcare Settings,” generally known as USP <800>. The standard is intended to protect healthcare workers and patients from harm associated with exposure to hazardous drugs, and many healthcare facilities have taken steps to
Microgrid ‘island mode’ keeps healthcare facilities online when the power grid fails (Podcast included)
Engineering consultant Eric Vandenbroucke of IMEG explains how a microgrid technology strategy can enable healthcare facilities to remain operational indefinitely from, and independently of, the power grid.
SPC-4D: 7 reasons California hospital building owners should act now
IMEG explains why SPC-4D is the least onerous and cost-effective way for hospital building owners of acute care services facilities currently rated SPC-1 or SPC-2 to comply with California’s Hospital Seismic Retrofit Program.
Supreme Court ruling on EPA is no excuse to sit on the sidelines
Director of Sustainability remains hopeful of a carbon-free future in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
