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          Volume 15 • Issue 6 • $5.00               December 2018
                          THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS


                                                        HEALTHCARE REAL ESTATE

                                                Safer, Healthier, Customer Driven


                                                          Hospitals Built by OHL


                                                          BY BARBARA FALLON

                                               As a kid, did you use blankets to create a fort under
                                             a table, or build a sand castle with buckets and shovels,
                                             or erect a skyscraper with Legos? Most of the time, you
                                             built with materials on-hand according to whatever
                                             plan was in your head with little thought to what
                      Jay Juffre             would happen when you tired of playing.                                            Dr. Steve Ullmann
                                               Fast forward decades and you will be blown over by
             ImageFIRST:                     the intricacies of construction - from governmental reg-                   The Anticipated
                                             ulations and codes to sustainable materials, eco-friend-
                                             ly demands, safety and security protocols, planning for
               Putting the                   long-term facility upgrades, engineering expertise,                           Impact of the
                                             budget limitations, trends in delivery sites, emergency    Frank Chang
            Needs of Your                    communication guidelines and much more. Add to                                     Election
                                             that the unique mandates of health care facilities trying to retrofit or expand while
             Patients First                  intricate surgical procedures continue in an OR down the hall and HIPAA require-  on Healthcare
                                             ments are front and center to protect patient privacy.
                                               Frank Chang, OHL Senior Project Manager, has been with this leader in Southeast
                                             health care construction for more than 20 years and OHL has experienced it all.
               BY DANIEL CASCIATO                                                                                          BY STEVE ULLMANN, PH.D.
                                             Health care construction is a mainstay at OHL and Florida area clients include Baptist
          As the famous adage goes, your     Health South Florida, University of Miami Health System, Nicklaus Children’s   So, the midterm election of 2018 is now
        patient’s needs always comes first.                                                      Continued on page 22  over. The election drew one of the largest
        Healthcare providers ensure patients are                                                                      electorate turnouts ever in a midterm elec-
        comfortable in their setting – whether                                                                        tion. Elements of the media have spoken
        it’s in a hospital, doctor’s office or outpa-  A Talk with Community Care Plan                                of the results, using the term “a blue
        tient clinic – and strive to provide                                                                          wave”. Indeed at the national level, the
        exceptional care and quality.                                                                                 House did have a very significant turnover
          One important aspect to this care is                President and CEO                                       of House seats from Republican to
        high quality medical linens. They allow                                                                       Democrat. In the Senate, the blue wave
        your patients to feel more comfortable     Putting Heart in Health Care Plans                                 had not been expected to occur, and
        and at ease and just as critical clean                                                                        indeed, it did not.
        lines can prevent the transmission of                                                                           At the Florida state level it was the
        germs among patients and staff.                    BY BARBARA FALLON                                          Governor’s race and the U.S. Senate race
          “Our clients spend tons of money on                                                                         which received most of the attention, with
        advertising, marketing, and analysis on   If you think this is an article about claims submissions            votes so close that recounts were neces-
        how to improve key areas like Patient   and denials, data entry instructions, provider contracts, fee         sary. But the voting situation for these two
        Satisfaction and Staff Engagement,” says   schedules, patient codes, federal regulations or DME doc-          races reflected something quite important:
        Jay Juffre, executive vice president of   umentation from a Provider Service Network (PSN) …                  that among the voting public, the elec-
        ImageFIRST, a national medical linen   wipe that yawn off your face and read on.                              torate was split right down the middle.
        company. “There is no less expensive   True, Community Care Plan (CCP) has earned the high-                   This would appear to imply that half of
        way to increase both than an         est accolades in quality of care indicators for the last two             our state’s population is most pleased with
        ImageFIRST linen or scrub program.”   years, which means they meet or exceed all the regulations              the outcome of the election and half of the
          As the largest and leading provider of   guiding the operational nuts and bolts of care and cover-          state’s population is most likely disap-
        medical linens to outpatient care,   age; however according to Jessica Lerner, newly minted                   pointed with the outcome. So what may
        ImageFIRST also offers its healthcare   President and CEO, this is really a story about the health            the election outcome mean regarding
        customers the ScrubVAULT System, an   plan with a heart.                                    Jessica Lerner    healthcare policy at the federal, state, and
        easy-to-use cabinet with a compact     It’s a compilation of more than 180 employees who care                 local levels, and how will it impact
        footprint which was first tested at the   for 100,000 members as if each individual was their only patient. The Plan offers an   patients, providers, and payers? Whereas
        University of Miami.                 excellent choice of physicians who cover a wide range of health and medical services but   it is questionable whether one can rely
          “This latest innovation has taken the   additionally more than 50 community agencies partner with the health plan to identify   entirely on our crystal ball, there are cer-
        industry by storm and now is being uti-  and resolve related challenges of caring for a Medicaid and self-insured population across   tainly some strong indications as to where
        lized in almost every major medical   a large geographic footprint.                                           policy may lead.
        market in the U.S.,” says Juffre.      Lerner recognizes that social determinants can negatively impact how compliant
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