Healthcare Facilities Network Healthcare FM pay lags behind its competitors
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.
We welcome Dr. Steven Call to this episode of High Reliability. Dr. Call is a faculty member in the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University in Pullman, WA.
For several years, Dr. Call has focused his applied research program on hospital facility management and cost optimization. We discuss the impact of Dr. Call's healthcare FM-specific research, including:
- Deciding on a facility management career path that led to academia (3:40);
- Researching healthcare FM pain points and the challenge in re-filling the FM pipeline (17:00);
- Researching healthcare FM, including workforce planning and seeking perfect candidates (31:00);
- Salaries, lower in healthcare versus non-healthcare FM, and the impact of the degree (40:00);
- Is there a pay bump moving from a Bachelor's to a Master's Degree? (50:00);
- Talking deferred maintenance and predictions for the future (1:00:00);
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