Healthcare capital planning projects have been met with a variety of new obstacles in recent years that are linked to digital, social and environmental concerns. These challenges have placed more of a strain on organizations’ budgets and have impacted budget allocation decision-making processes, ultimately impacting how projects are planned and delivered.
DPR Construction’s third episode of its Constructing with Care podcast is available and addresses challenges and solutions with healthcare capital planning projects. In this latest podcast episode, “Capital Balance of Healthcare,” Kirsten Waltz, senior director of facilities architecture and planning for Johns Hopkins Health System and Kevin Matuszewski, healthcare strategist for DPR Construction discuss planning in a volatile market, effectively balancing rising costs, and the growing importance of health equity, telehealth and environmental issues when it comes to healthcare construction.
Stay tuned for episode four in early 2023, where Matuszewski and Waltz will continue their conversation discussing resiliency, energy consumption and the partnership healthcare systems and construction firms can form to create hospitals that address specific community needs.
Learn more at dpr.com/media/blog/constructing-care-podcast-capital-balance-healthcare.