Constructing with Care Podcast: Prefabricating Healthcare

Cash flow has always been a paramount concern for healthcare owners, more so now as emerging priorities such as technology integration surface alongside built capital investments. Shifting from inpatient to outpatient care, coupled with an aging population, has led to rapid projected growth in outpatient builds across the nation.

As healthcare systems strive to reduce the impacts of capital build projects, implementing prefabrication and modular strategies can significantly affect cash flow through speed to market, potentially unlocking earlier revenue recognition and tax advantages via asset depreciation.

"Standardization and prefabrication create a safer job site by decluttering the workspace, reducing traffic, and improving the patient journey." - Jeff Schroder, Atrium Health

In Part 1, guests dig into how prefabrication is driving tangible financial benefits, improving safety and accelerating speed to market for healthcare construction projects.

In Part 2, Schroder, Francis and Ashcroft discuss how standardization in construction can improve care delivery and operational efficiencies, especially when applied across different type of care facilities.

In the final part of this series, guests explore how prefabrication and strategic planning improve cost predictability and mitigate risks, especially as they relate to fluctuating market conditions like supply chain and labor availability.

In this multi-part series of Constructing with Care, DPR’s podcast focusing on healthcare construction, we’re joined by Sean Ashcroft, healthcare core market lead at DPR; Jeff Schroder, AVP Planning, Design and Construction at Atrium Health, part of Advocate Health; and Sarah Francis, Enterprise Assistant Vice President, Standards & Activation-Planning, Design & Construction at Advocate Health.

Read the whitepaper these episodes follow, Healthcare Insights: Harnessing Prefabrication to Balance the Value Equation. You can read all articles in the Healthcare Insights series and listen to past episodes of Constructing with Care available here.

Subscribe for future episodes to hear conversations with inspiring guests from across the healthcare and construction industry about how considerations in healthcare design and construction can create better clinical workflow, enhance patient experience, improve efficiency and more.

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