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ASHE’s Sustainability Program Manager Kara Brooks will provide a brief overview of the Energy to Care Program and new updates to the program offerings. In addition, Kara will provide a brief overview on sustainability before, during and after COVID-19.

This presentation provides an outline for the first step in the resiliency process: assessing your facility’s vulnerability.

This presentation first examines available VR tools and assessments given varying user group dynamics.

This session follows up ongoing national benchmarking research on critical access hospitals based on the collaboration between academic researchers, designers, policy makers and FGI.

Nathan Howell, Jerry McPhail, Petra Sarah Wakefield. Join Covenant Health and Texas Tech as they detail their collaborative three-tiered approach to tackling this epidemic and removing the stigma of mental health.

Gaurav Khadse, University of Texas Medical Branch; Zach Mitchell, PhiloWilke Partnership. This session presents a case study that will focus on the efficient design of one of the largest treatment centers for infectious diseases in the United States.

Kathleen Morlang, Kara Brooks, Peter Dahl, Scott Tripp. This webinar is a panel discussion on high-performance building design evaluating design features at some of the most energy-efficient health care facilities across the country.

Walt Vernon, Shannon Bunsen, Troy Savage. At the last two PDC Summits, the presenters offered insight into the research performed to alter the demand factors for plug loads and cord-connected medical equipment. The research focused on changing the National Electrical Code demand factors with the goal of allowing smaller electrical systems to aid in construction cost savings. They are working with ASHE and the NFPA Healthcare Section to finalize deployment of this research into the NEC and will provide updates on this topic.

Thomas Smith. This webinar will provide an overview of the newly updated Security Design Guidelines for Health Care Facilities. The 2020 edition has updated material throughout and new subject matter has been added including ED-based behavioral health facilities, long-term care facilities, and standalone emergency, urgent care and surgical care facilities.

Through this webinar, Tyler Greenwood and Dennis Ford provide a roadmap for developing a program for continual certification and share lessons learned from going through The Joint Commission survey in 2018.