Healthcare today: Be fluid

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 this episode, High Reliability welcomes Rick Sanders, Director of Plant Operations, Safety, Security, and Clinical Engineering, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in  Poplar Bluff, MO. Rick has worked for large medical centers across the country and came to healthcare following a 21-year career in the Navy. 

Along the path of this podcast, you will hear us discuss our history with the typewriter and how far we have come past the typewriter. Also discussed:  

• Snow talk (2:20);
• Flexibility has its limitations, be fluid  (7:00);
• Talking about an Honor Flight and the challenges of transitioning into healthcare (18:30);
• Balancing management accountability, or best practices for working in healthcare management (28:00);
• Working in academic medical centers and finding healthcare (43:00).

My thanks to Rick for appearing on the podcast.

G/MA Nuggets

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3) Results of the Healthcare Facilities Management 2022 survey are here.