This audio conference provides comprehensive guidance on analyzing and then mitigating the effects of power system failures, including the elements discussed by The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event Alert 37.
Topics to be covered include power failure risk reduction strategies, performing a comprehensive emergency power gap analysis, power system vulnerability analyses, power failure risk assessments, applying Environment of Care risk management concepts to power failure planning, holistic management of clinical and facility considerations, and dozens of sample emergency management tracers for power failures to assist attendees in verifying their own readiness.
Learning Objectives:
Break Sentinel Event Alert 37 down into easily-managed coordinated tasks.
Perform an emergency power gap analysis and use lessons already learned to start the process.
Perform a comprehensive power failure risk assessment.
Identify strategies for reducing the risk of power failures in your own facility.
Apply EC Risk Management concepts to power failure planning.
Obtain dozens of sample emergency management tracers that attendees can use now to verify their own readiness.
David Stymiest P.E., CHFM, FASHE, CEM, GBE is presently a Senior Consultant at Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. (SSR) responsible for compliance, electrical power systems consulting, SSR Surveyor™ BMP, facilities engineering and management consulting for SSR’s healthcare clients. Before joining SSR in June 2000, he was Senior Electrical Engineer for more than 10 years for Massachusetts General Hospital and the other hospitals of Partners HealthCare System.
David has 34 years intensive professional experience in facilities and electrical engineering for health care, institutional, industrial, commercial, civil works, transportation, and electrical utility projects. He has spent almost half of his career as an Owner and hospital engineer, and half his career as a consulting engineer. He is acknowledged as a forward-thinking leading industry expert in the management, operation, testing, and application of emergency power systems in health care facilities.
He is an AHA Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM), a Fellow of ASHE (FASHE), an AEE Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and Green Building Engineer (GBE), and a Registered Professional Engineer in four states.
David is presently the Chairman of the NFPA Technical Committee on Emergency Power Supplies, which has responsibility for NFPA 110 and NFPA 111.
He is an active member of the Power Distribution Workgroup of ASHE’s NFPA 99 Revision Committee. David is also the chapter chairman for Chapter 4 – Electrical Power Systems for Delivering Patient Care for the upcoming 2007 revision of the IEEE White Book, IEEE P602.
He has a BS degree (1972) and a Master of Engineering degree (1973) in Electric Power Engineering from RPI, and a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management (1984) from Harvard University Extension.
David has spoken at 13 national ASHE conferences and dozens of state conferences, written 3 ASHE Technical Documents / Management Monographs, and written 11 Health Facilities Management Magazine articles. He also co-edited the 1200-page McGraw-Hill Facilities Engineering and Management Handbook for Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Buildings, which was published in 2001. David also had a major article published on Managing Hospital Emergency Power Programs in the European book Business Briefing – Hospital Engineering & Facilities Management 2004 (World Markets Series) for the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE). He has also written articles for Maintenance Solutions Magazine, Healthcare Circuit News and Consulting-Specifying Engineer.
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David Stymiest P.E, CHFM, FASHE, CEM GBE
