Mark your calendars! Join us for the Annual OHA Capital Planning Conference.

Don’t miss this exciting event that promises to be educational and informative focusing on the lifecycle of hospital projects and keys to success.

Topics to be discussed will include:

• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Business Case Requirement with response panel
• Evidence Based Design
• Project Success
• Procurement
• Hospital Transition
• Evolving Trends in Infection Control Planning in Hospital Design
• Niagara Health System: A Case Study on the Province's first Design, Build, Finance, Maintain (DBFM) project

Chaired by Debbie Sevenpifer, President and CEO, Niagara Health System, this conference will provide capital planning keys to success and address barriers to be aware of while exploring various healthcare facility projects.

0830h Registration and Continental Breakfast

0900h Welcoming remarks and conference overview

Chair: Debbie Sevenpifer
President & CEO
Niagara Health System

0905h MOHLTC Business Case Requirements

Perspectives from a Health Services Provider and an Economist expertl

David Clarke
Director
Health Capital Investment Branch
Health System Information Management and Investment Division
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Dave McCaig
Vice President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer
William Osler Health Centre

John C. Parker
Vice President
HDR Decision Economics

0935h Project Success - What does it really mean?

• Perspectives on project success from the MOHLTC, IO, and selected hospitals
• How do these perspectives on project success   compare to best practice noted in international   academic and  
  practitioner literature?
• Who is responsible for achieving project success?
• Recommendations to increase the likelihood of   achieving Project Success

David Cunic
Vice President, Site Redevelopment
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

1015h Networking refreshment break

1030h Evidenced Based Design: Lessons from various hospitals

• design practices that appear to reduce operational cost, and how to build a business case for the added cost
• discussion of facility design strategies that have a positive impact on health outcomes (supported by research)
• presentation of best practice trends that appear to have a positive impact on health outcomes
• where to find the evidence

Steven J. Goe
FACHE
Senior Vice President
Healthcare Principal
HDR, Inc.

Cyndi McCullough, MSN
Senior Healthcare Consultant / Vice President
HDR, Inc.

1115h Evolving Trends in Infection Control Planning in Hospital Design

Dr. Roger Ulrich
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
College of Architecture
Texas A & M University
Affiliate Scientist, Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

1145h Networking Luncheon

1300h Procurement

• Tendering compliance: case law update
• Getting a project ready for tender
• Stages of AFP Procurement
• The role of financing
• Lessons learned to date

Matthew Alter
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

John McKendrick
Senior Vice President, Project Delivery
Infrastructure Ontario

1345h Networking Refreshment Break

1400h Transition

• Experience during operation
• Transitioning
• Move and post move

Mary O’Driscoll
Director, Project - Operations Integration
Redevelopment Office
Halton Healthcare Services

John Wieser
Principal
Project Control Group

Nina Lowe
Director
Project Control Group

1445h Niagara Health System

A Case Study on the Province's first Design, Build, Finance, Maintain (DBFM) project

Gloria Kain
Chief Planning and Development Officer
Niagara Health System

David Clarke
Director
Health Capital Investment Branch
Health System Information Management and Investment Division
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

David Chemla
VP Project Delivery
Infrastructure Ontario

Walter Gaudet
Associate VP
Cannon Design

Mark Miles
Vice President Project Delivery
Plenary Health

1615h Adjournment for the Day

Chair: Debbie Sevenpifer
CEO
Niagara Health System

1615h Reception