Benchmarking efforts for healthcare facility managers are evolving with increased momentum, as facility managers embrace the need for improved measurable performance indicators, according to a blog on the FacilityCare website by Todd Wilkening, director of facilities at Ridgeview Medical Center in Minnesota.
The International Facility Management Association’s Healthcare Institute’s (HCI) Benchmarking for Healthcare Facility Management Report is becoming the performance criteria for the healthcare facility manager, with dashboards that are embraced by senior executives, Wilkening said.
"Your goals are to reduce risk, improve quality and maximize value, all of which are the foundations of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). To be a facility management leader for an ACO, your goals should include how you leverage all benefits of the lifecycle of the buildings and equipment you maintain in order to maximize business profitability with unprecedented quality. Investments in assets should bring rewards, " he wrote.
Benchmarking reports can illustrate how facility manager contributions benefit the facility, the C Suite, but, most importantly, the patient, he said.
Read the blog.
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