Innovator and Leader – CEO of UC Davis Health and Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences, UC Davis Health; 100 Most Influential People in Health Care (Modern Healthcare)
Some excerpts from a recent interview with Modern Healthcare on health system construction: "The real growth is [being driven by] the decreasing need for hospital beds in the future. Many services, orthopedics being a prime example, already have moved from primarily an inpatient to an outpatient environment. We're going to see more of that with more services, as procedures become less invasive and slide down to ambulatory surgery centers with overnight stay capacity, and then out of surgery centers to office buildings.” Also noted in the article – UC Davis Health is building a new outpatient center and medical office building along with a 14-story 334-bed inpatient tower projected to open in 2030, all part of an ongoing $7.5 billion construction project. The system plans to spend $1.5 billion more on construction outside of that project between now and 2030 … The health system has made many design choices and investments to reflect an inpatient population that is projected to shrink in the long term. They include creating rooms that can easily be converted into intensive care units, and installing a remote patient monitoring system that tracks 11,000 vital sign data points per patient. https://lnkd.in/gMQzNrfq
Back to the future. I completed an ambulatory anaesthesia fellowship with Prof Frances Chung back in Toronto in 2002 and saw this future. If ALL care could default to ambulatory care patients would receive the best possible enhanced recovery enabling Drinking Eating and Mobilising (DrEAMing) ASAP. Some 20% of patients may still require an inpatient bed after ambulatory anaesthesia and minimally invasive surgery but 80% should be able to be safely discharged with technology now enabling remote patient monitoring and virtual ward care. The future will be healthcare measured in hours and not days IMHO. Looks like you are following Lincoln’s wise words ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it.’
We are excited for UC Davis Health on these remarkable investments, which will significantly enhance our facilities, improve patient lives, and benefit the community.
The move towards more outpatient and less invasive procedures is transforming healthcare delivery. 💯 UC Davis Health's investment in new facilities and advanced monitoring systems is commendable.👏🏽
Thanks for sending this.
Exactly
What a huge impact to the greater Sacramento community in terms of access to healthcare!
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1moIt will be interesting to see how we recalibrate to care for patients in the home. A lot of big projects still focused on buildings.