Taking on Healthcare Super Bugs With Super Facilities Management - Seite 2

With the stakes so high in terms of risk to patient safety and avoidable healthcare utilization and costs, JLL's report highlights the need for healthcare executives to consider real-estate related tactics in their fight against HAIs. Specifically, the panel's advice fell into three areas to consider:

• Facility design, which includes the physical materials and placement of medical supplies and equipment within a care setting.
• Facility operations, which includes the proper maintenance and cleaning of environmental equipment and medical devices.
• Facility management, which includes the effective oversight of outside contractors and services.

The report also explains the changes in culture, attitude and managerial responsibilities necessary to enlist facility design, operations and management as powerful weapons in the fight against HAIs. Topping that list is the cultivation of a good working relationship between a facility's lead infection preventionist and its facilities management director.

"Effective communication between those two positions is critical to identifying and then mitigating the infection risk from new and existing real estate-related issues," Bulgarelli added.

JLL Healthcare Solutions partners with U.S. hospitals, health systems, and other health and healing service providers across the continuum of care to help fulfil their missions through the stewardship of real estate-based assets. The group taps the unrealized potential of real estate to produce defined cost savings, manage risk, and improve the overall physician, patient, resident and provider experience. A leading provider of healthcare facility management services, JLL Healthcare Solutions has 1,400 dedicated professionals who oversee and service 132 acute care hospitals comprising 13,200 beds, and manage 131 million square feet of healthcare-related facilities with 123,000 beds. Consistently recognized as a top company in Modern Healthcare's annual rankings of real estate firms, JLL has also been ranked for nine years in a row on the Ethisphere Institute's World's Most Ethical Companies list. For further information, visit www.us.jll.com/healthcare.