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High Reliability, The Healthcare FM Podcast is brought to you by Gosselin/Martin Associates. Our show discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities within the Healthcare Facilities Management (FM) function.The @HealthcareFacilitiesNetwork welcomes Scott Cormier, Vice President of Emergency Management, Environment of Care, and Safety at   @medxcel. Throughout this podcast, Scott imparts actionable information accumulated throughout his career, both in and out of healthcare. With Emergency Management as the umbrella, we discuss leadership traits, systemization, helping employees when experiencing a natural disaster at their home, and the impact on a community when a hospital closes during a disaster. Scott provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Great Texas Freeze of February 2021. It brought significant snow and cold, which impacted Medxcel hospitals in the region.  As always, thank you for listening. Subscribe to the Healthcare Facilities Network

High Reliability, The Healthcare FM Podcast is brought to you by Gosselin/Martin Associates. Our show discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities within the Healthcare Facilities Management (FM) function. On February 18, 1952, four Coast Guard men risked their lives in a howling nor’easter off Cape Cod to save 32 mariners on the shipwrecked, broken-in half tanker called the Pendleton. They brought all but one to safety in a wooden motorboat (CG36500) designed to hold no more than 12 people. The Coast Guard called it the greatest rescue by a small boat in its history. The four men were called heroes. They shrugged it off and said they were just doing their job.We are joined by Vince Patton, Master Chief Petty Officer (Retired), United States Coast Guard, and Ed Loughran, Owner, Charles River Wine Cellars, to discuss this incredible rescue mission.Along the way, we ask and Vince answers if effective leaders still exist, we speak about Vince's love of his hometown Detroit Lions, and we talk about some famous US military figures. This story goes far beyond our usual topic area of healthcare facilities management and healthcare engineering. Subscribe to the Healthcare Facilities Network

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. Perhaps the most important professional relationship a healthcare facilities director must build is with the CFO of the hospital. And so today's episode is dedicated to and titled "Talk finance and build a relationship with your CFO." Thanks to our guests, Director of Facilities Management Robert Hacker and his CFO, Jim Corwin. Jim and Robert work for Community Memorial Healthcare in Ventura, CA. For many directors of FM, finance, and money can be outside of their comfort zone. In this episode, Jim and Robert begin with the basics: How does a hospital get its funding? They discuss the basics of capitation and payer mixes and how they impact the FM budget creation process. They also discuss creating a relationship between an FM and the CFO built on credibility and trust. Jim offers insights on how FM can bring even more value to the CFO/FM relationship. This is a relevant episode for all healthcare facility directors.Subscribe to the Healthcare Facilities Network

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. John Babin, Director of Facilities Management, Bayou Region, Ochsner Health, joins us. John oversees St. Anne's, a Critical Access Hospital, and two other Ochsner Bayou Region hospitals. John's region is located about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans.In this episode, we discuss:The environment in a Critical Access Hospital, including the sense of community that is felt; St. Anne's  weathering Hurricane Ida, a powerful storm whose eye passed directly over St. Anne's in 2021; The meaning of the term  "funds confiscated by the clinical side;" Changing the organization's perception of facilities;The importance of communication;Attracting new employees;Implementing AIDET (Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, and Thank you) in the facilities department. As always, thank you for listening!Watch  the Healthcare Facilities Network

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 four guests to our Filling the Pipeline series of episodes in this episode. They are Clay Ciolek, Director of FM at Providence Health (WA);  Jordan Smith, Administrative Director of FM at AdventHealth (FL);  Nancy Vanasse of Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MA);  and Steven Call of Washington State University (WA).Would you hire a manager without healthcare experience?What is the best way to succession plan?How are college students different today than in the past?Where does healthcare lack compared to other industries?How do you weigh character versus experience in the hiring process?As always, thank you for listening.Watch  the Healthcare Facilities Network

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. The  High Reliability Podcast discusses Human Resources in this presentation. Human Resources can be like the Wizard behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. To demystify, we asked Joy Curtis, Chief Human Resources Officer, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, to join us. Joy provides a helpful and illuminating description of the challenges faced in the market today in healthcare. Through our conversation, Joy offers insights on:The challenges of recruiting, regretted turnover, employee education, and retention;The first rule of recruiting;Where have all the employees gone;The use of Artificial Intelligence in HR;Interviewing best practices; Arrogance versus confidence The issue of using too many "I's" in an interview. Joy's discussion will benefit healthcare facilities management professionals and all other professionals, regardless of industry. Thanks for listening!Check out the Healthcare Facilities Network

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 presentation, The  High Reliability Podcast/Healthcare Facilities Network provides a recap of the recently held ASHE Annual conference. This episode discusses themes from the conference, including:Decarbonization Employee shortages Weather disasters Abraham Lincoln Crystal Eagle Award-winner Dave Dagenais Watch this episode on the  Healthcare Facilities Network.

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 High Reliability,  we discuss the current state of the healthcare facilities management market, as seen through the lens of the Healthcare Facilities Network.  While there is a great reward to be found in a healthcare facilities management career, there are also significant challenges to be found in 2023. This podcast will review:* The passionate employee* The changing organization, the changing employee* Staff shortages * Salariy issues* Work/life balance* Funding and access to Capital* More compliance and regulation* Promotion of the role within the bigger pictureWatch this episode on the  Healthcare Facilities Network.

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 High Reliability, we welcome Jeffrey Henne, Safety & Emergency Manager,University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA. Jeff is a long-time safety professional active on the local and national level with Engineering Chapters and ASHE. Jeff's path to a safety career began in high school.Jeff was  ASHE President in the Covid-impacted year of 2020 and is running for ASHE President again in 2023, seeking to become the second person to win the presidency twice. With his first stint impacted by the Pandemic, Jeff and I discuss his reasons for running, his goals for a potential second term, some of the challenges ASHE faces, and his role at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. We also mention the Wizard of Oz, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Paul Revere.Join  Gosselin/Martin Associates at the Healthcare Facilities Network on YouTube.

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.  The world likes to talk about Millenials and what they are and are not. But what do the Millenial age professionals have to say about themselves and the profession they work in, healthcare facilities management? We ask, and they answer in this episode. Thanks to our guests:* Jim Grana, Associate Director of Standards Interpretation Group at The Joint Commission, Oakbrook, IL* Logan Landis, Associate Safety Manager at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA* Brittany Remec, Construction Project Lead at Advocate Aurora Health, Elmhurst, IL* Claire Salinas, Director of Customer Success, FSI, Charlotte, NC Topics covered include: Work-life balanceCareer paths and ladders, Expectations of the organization, and Working with colleagues from different generations.  Join  Gosselin/Martin Associates at the Healthcare Facilities Network on YouTube