The New Capital Balance of Healthcare (Episode 3) Kirsten Waltz, Senior Director of Facilities Architecture + Planning from John Hopkins Health System, and Kevin Matuszewski, Healthcare Strategist at DPR Construction
Release Date: 12/22/2022
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info_outlineWelcome to episode 3 of Constructing with Care, a Podcast for healthcare executives to discuss topics affecting capital projects today. Today, you are listening to Part 1 of a series addressing the new capital balance of healthcare.
Kirsten Waltz, Senior Director of Facilities Architecture + Planning from John Hopkins Health System, and Kevin Matuszewski, Healthcare Strategist at DPR Construction join your host, Leslie Tullio. In this episode, they are going to take a deeper look at the new balance of capital for healthcare organizations and how their priorities have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Capital planning projects within the healthcare building space have faced new obstacles in recent years that are linked with a variety of digital, social, and environmental concerns; the increase in those considerations places more scrutiny on the capital of these organizations and has impacted their decision-making process around allocation. These new concerns will ultimately have ramifications on how capital projects are planned and delivered.
Key Takeaways:
[2:10] Are there any particular reasons for scarcity of capital in the healthcare space lately?
[2:55] Kevin answers the previous question from a builder's perspective.
[4:23] What are the changes needed in capital planning after the pandemic?
[6:09] Kevin talks about the three factors that were really accelerated in the pandemic: Telehealth, health and social equity, and environmental. Which has accelerated the most and why?
[10:05] Kirsten discusses the current trending topic.
[11:04] Kevin talks about ways for the private care sector to improve social equity in the infrastructure they provide.
[15:31] Kirsten speaks of the digital transformation in the healthcare system and what has changed as a result of telehealth.
[17:22] Kevin describes what he considers will be the next technology changes in healthcare.
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