Kickoff Webinar for the *New* Health Care Facilities Tailored Benchmarking (HFTB) Program | May 2023

Make your voice heard! Help shape the collection of data that will be a resource for you and other facility managers to: 

• Advocate for the financing of your programs within your organization.
• Compare methods and learn best practices from your peers.

Join your peers! This kickoff webinar is the official start to ASHE’s new Health Care Facility Tailored Benchmarking (HFTB) program. We will dive into a brief history of previous benchmarking activities across ASHE and other organizations and discuss the details of the current program. Health care benchmarking SMEs will provide insight into the utility of the program, and live polling will allow attendees to provide input on important metric decisions – we want to ensure your voice is heard!  

Register for this webinar to learn about additional opportunities for participation and reporting. 

Learning objectives: 

• Review previous benchmarking initiatives and highlight strengths and weaknesses of each. 
• Introduce the basics of benchmarking to ensure apples to apples comparisons. 
• Explain how the unit of analysis in benchmarking impacts members' abilities to compare themselves with similar others. 
• Work as a group to discuss how tailored methods can remove some of the “messiness” in traditional benchmarking and can create more actionable reports for different kinds of organizations. 

Speakers: 

• Jason Tate, CHFM, CEM, Director of Facilities/Safety Officer, MountainView Regional Medical Center 
• Mike Hatton, FASHE, Vice President Facilities Engineering at Memorial Hermann Health System
• Lisa Walt, PhD, Senior Researcher and Methodologist, ASHE