Constructing with Care: Highlights from the Podcast in 2025

In Constructing with Care, a podcast for healthcare industry leaders that looks at the topics and trends on the construction of capital projects, we’ve had important and timely discussions such as:

• Using prefabrication to lessen the growing healthcare capital spending.
• Practical strategies for aligning capital investments with long-term organizational vision.

These topics are continually relevant, so in this special episode, we’re looking back at some of the best takeaways and insights from industry pioneers and experts.

• 0:42: Sarah Francis on standardization for measuring data and continual improvement, minimizing re-work and keeping people safe.
• 1:37: Sean Ashcroft on cost avoidance and physically creating a better path of travel for end-users.
• 2:10: Ashcroft on understanding that construction in healthcare is challenging but the reward pays off.
• 2:40: Jeff Schroder on the benefit of building in controlled environments to enhance the cost and schedule of a project.
• 3:09: Curtis Skolnick on how to finance construction work while also serving the needs of the community through phasing.
• 4:08: Jonathan Bykowski on using capital to address the challenge of accommodating all patient needs, not just the symptoms.
• 4:44: Skolnick on managing risks for end-users.
• 5:05: Bykowski on understanding data and using AI to make better clinical decisions for patients based on past baseline data.
• 6:02: Bykowski continues discussing optimized systems and "swim lanes" to better plan and minimize disruption to both healthcare operations and patient care.

You can read all articles in the Healthcare Insight series and listen to full episodes of Constructing with Care available here.  

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