By Healthcare Facilities Today

Healthcare Design managing editor Jennifer Kovacs Silvis has been tracking the Lawrence + Memorial (L+M) Hospital cancer center project for the past year, holding regular calls with Brenda Bullied, director of facilities innovation and planning for L+M and other members of the project management team. 

Silvis wanted to see the realities are of working under an integrated project delivery contract.

According to her blog on the Healthcare Design website, the finished project aligned pretty closely with the design that was originally created.

In the blog, Bullied shared how the very same patient advocates and cancer survivors who two years ago took part in a 3P (production, preparation, process) event to kick off the design stage of the Waterford, Conn. project returned to see the finished building and offered the usual positive remarks you might expect to hear. But more than that, they said it’s just what they’d expected.

“There are no surprises. This is how they thought it was going to be,” Bullied said. “I don’t think you often have that in construction.”

The team worked keep patients, staff, the community, and any other interested parties in the loop and integrate feedback into the design. But, according to the blog, that communication came with a price: time.

Read the blog.