High Reliability, The Healthcare FM Podcast is brought to you by Gosselin/Martin Associates. Our show discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities within the Facilities Management (FM) function.
In today's episode we discuss Population Health as it relates to healthcare and facilities management. Our guests are Pamela Neckar and Tom Richert.
Pam is a Partner at Bostwick Design Partnership, headquartered in Cleveland. Founded in 1962, Bostwick Design Partnership is a full-service architectural firm providing services for healthcare, education, civic, and corporate clients. The firm has great hospital experience and has designed healthcare environments worldwide. Pam also serves as CFO with Bostwick Design.
Tom Richert is the Principal at RisingTerrain LLC in Boston. RisingTerrain performs team performance coaching and consulting, specializing in training and coaching lean productivity skills. Tom has worked with healthcare organizations and coached a healthcare project team using lean practices to complete a project within budget.
Bostwick Design and RisingTerrain are partnered together on a Joint Venture for a Population Health project in Cleveland, working with the Director of Public Health in the city. Pam and Tom share exciting details about this ongoing project. Other topics covered in the podcast include:
- What is population health (2:30)?
- Lean design and construction in healthcare (17:00);
- Talking career paths (21:00);
- Population Health project in Cleveland (39:00);
- What might a Population Health campus look like (46:00)?
For more information, please see https://bostwickdesign.com and https://www.risingterrain.com.
As always, thank you for listening.


