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 are pleased to welcome James Shoemaker, Retired LT. Colonel, USAF,  and former Director of Plant Operations at Deborah Heart & Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ. Before joining Deborah Heart & Lung Center, Jim served as Assistant Director of Engineering at St. Frances Medical Center in Trenton, NJ.Jim served in numerous healthcare facilities management national leadership roles during his healthcare career, including as the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) President in 1994. In addition, Jim was awarded the distinguished ASHE Crystal Eagle Award at last summer's Annual Conference (2023) in Boston.Jim has had a distinguished leadership career in the military and then in healthcare facilities management, jobs that included challenges to overcome. Jim colorfully describes those challenges in this podcast, including the difference between color blind and color ignorant, and how that distinction would impact his Air Force career. Other areas discussed include:How a beer party Jim threw for himself led him to a career in healthcare facilities management; His good friend George Thomas and how a chance meeting at a conference formed a deep personal friendship and led to leadership opportunities for each;His experiences as a Navigator for the Air Force during the Vietnam War and some incredible stories from those experiences; Four years of retirement post-healthcare, and going back to work to deliver Lexus'.Jim also recounts stories and experiences from his life that are still instructive for us in 2023. We thank Jim for sharing his stories and experiences with us on the High Reliability podcast. Thank you for listening.Subscribe to the Healthcare Facilities Network, the YouTube Network that tells the stories of healthcare facilities management. 

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.  This episode welcomes Jason Brown, Vice President of District Operations at Primetime Healthcare Compliance Services in Houston, TX.  Before joining Primetime Healthcare, Jason served as Corporate Director of Facilities Management Oceans Healthcare in Plano, TX. Oceans is a national provider of behavioral health services, and we spend a good portion of this podcast talking about behavioral health facilities management. Other areas covered in our discussion include:Talking about Texas cold,  how nature and buildings function in it, and the resilience needed in the FM role (2:00);A career path that "carried me down a path that I didn't know existed" (10:30);Servant leadership and ego  (26:30);"There is a taboo around mental illness," and working in behavioral health FM (29:00);Patient elopement (53:00);A word of advice for hiring managers about candidates with behavioral health experience.As always, thank you for listening.

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.

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 Jordan Smith to this episode. Jordan is the Administrative Director of Facility Operations for AdventHealth in Zephyr Hills, Florida. Jordan leads the facilities team at their Dade City and Zephyr Hills hospital campuses.  Jordan is also the current District President for the Florida Healthcare Engineering Association (FHEA) District III Board. In addition, he serves as the district's representative to the FHEA state board.Jordan and I discuss many topics, including:"Healthcare is busy in Florida" (2:20);Expansion pressure and staffing needs (9:30);Owning a trades business and making the transition to healthcare (14:30);No drama policy (30:30);On the value of networking (41:00);Touting FM accomplishments (51:30).Our thanks to Jordan for appearing on the podcast. G/MA Nuggets1) Check out the jobs we are recruiting for here, including our latest Children's Medical Center Dallas role. 2) Follow us on YouTube.3) Read our latest blog, Be true to yourself.

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 Nuggets1) Check out the jobs we are recruiting for here, including our latest Children's Medical Center Dallas role. 2) Sign up for the Gosselin/Martin Associates Career Hub! 3) Results of the Healthcare Facilities Management 2022 survey are here.

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 David Trask to speak about healthcare facilities, the employment market, and the challenges and opportunities he sees as the National Director for ARC Facilities.  Before joining ARC in 2012, David worked in various publishing, media, and marketing roles. As a result, David brings a multi-faceted perspective to the healthcare FM world.  In this episode of High Reliability we discuss:Comparing healthcare to other industries (3:30);Eliminating barriers to gaining knowledge (18:00);Does technology tie you to your desk, and talking generational differences (23:30);Comparing the labor markets  (34:30);Selling to the CSuite for the FM leader, and a funny CSuite story (44:00).My thanks to David for his time. To learn more about ARC Solutions, see https://www.arcfacilities.comAs always, thank you for listening.G/MA Nuggets1) Check out the jobs we are recruiting for here, including our latest Children's Medical Center Dallas role. 2) Sign up for the Gosselin/Martin Associates Career Hub! 3) Results of the Healthcare Facilities Management 2022 survey are here.

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.  For our first podcast of 2023, we welcome Terrence Wright, Vice President of Facilities and Support Services at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Terrence and Moffitt's leadership are tasked with opening a new hospital this July. We begin with an interesting discussion about the market and how not having some previously eliminated layers of healthcare facility leadership has returned to harm the industry. This episode of High Reliability also features:Opening a new hospital,  the challenge of staffing, and looking to alternative models in a competitive Tampa market  (4:00);Educating the local market about healthcare (9:00);Using "more grace for the new hires we bring in" (20:30);Elements of leadership in healthcare facilities (24:30)"An interesting social experiment," or managing employees from different generations (31:30);Speak Nurse, use AIDET, and EVS as a component of patient care (43:00).My thanks to Terrence for his time and insight. Terrence's Support Services team seeks 200 new staff members, including positions in safety and security, facilities, EVS, and food services. If you are interested in a career at the new Moffitt McKinely Hospital, see here. Thanks for listening!G/MA Nuggets1) Check out the jobs we are recruiting for here.2) Sign up for the Gosselin/Martin Associates Career Hub! 3) Results of the Healthcare Facilities Management 2022 survey are here.

Welcome to a different episode of  High Reliability.In this brief podcast, we look at the area of Williston, ND. We will discuss the area's historical significance, famous people, economy, and weather.The conversation is framed within the context of a Director of Facility Management opportunity we are recruiting for in Williston for CHI St. Alexius Williston. Give us 10 minutes of your time, and you will hear information from Lewis & Clark to Sitting Bull to apartment rentals and, of course, the opportunity.  To learn more about this opportunity, please see here. 

As we approach the close of the year, the High Reliability podcast is once again pleased to convene an accomplished group of healthcare professionals to discuss the year that was in HCFM. Our guests are:Carol McCormick, Director of Facilities, Plant Operations, & Maintenance for CHI Health Immanuel and CHI Health Mercy, Omaha, NE;Dr. Robert Feldbauer, System Vice President of Facilities and Administrative Services, UC Health, Cincinnati, OH;Robert Hacker, Director of Facilities, Planning, Design, and Construction, Community Memorial Hospital & Ojai Valley Community Hospital, Ventura, CA.This episode of High Reliability features:Revisiting predictions from 2022, how did they turn out (2:30);Dealing with delays, talking elevators, and equipment (27:30);Changing employee expectations? (45:00)Predictions for 2023 (1:12:00).My thanks to Carol, Bob, and Robert for their time and insight. As always, thank you for listening.G/MA Nuggets1) Check out the jobs we are recruiting for here.2) Sign up for the Gosselin/Martin Associates Career Hub! 3) Results of the Healthcare Facilities Management 2022 survey are here.

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);As always, we thank you for listening to High Reliability and hope you will subscribe, download, and rate the podcast.G/MA Nuggets1) Check out the jobs we are recruiting for here.2) Sign up for the Gosselin/Martin Associates Career Hub!