Fable Hospital: An Even More Compelling Business Case for a Better Building

Fable Hospital: An Even More Compelling Business Case for a Better Building is a webinar presentation of the potential impact of evidence-based design concepts. 

Fable Hospital, the story of a “make believe” hospital, uses real data from The Center for Health Design's Pebble Project research initiative to make a compelling business case for building a better building. By spending a little bit more money up front to incorporate evidence-based design concepts, the creators of the Fable Hospital explain how short- and long-term payback can be realized by increasing market share and reducing costs associated with infections, transfers, staff turnover, etc.

Since being first presented at Healthcare Design, the Fable Hospital story has been updated with new data, including a cost model developed by The Center for Health Design in conjunction with Turner Healthcare.

Webinar Learning Objectives

• Understand the compelling business case for using evidence-based design
• Gain some insight into how to deal with the current construction market challenges
• Walk away with strategies for funding and/or financing the costs of evidence-based building design

About The Speakers

Blair Sadler
Mr. Sadler, former president and CEO of the Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a faculty member at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he served as a medical-legal specialist for the National Institutes of Health, on the Yale University faculty, as assistant vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as vice president and director of the hospital and clinics at Scripps Clinical and Research Foundation. He was the founding chair of the Child Health Accountability Initiative (CHAI), a consortium of 15 children's hospitals dedicated to improving the quality of America's children. He served on the U.S.-Mexico Border Heath Commission.

Among Mr. Sadler's numerous professional activities, he has co-authored three books and has written numerous articles on quality and healthcare. He is a frequent presenter nationally and internationally on the impact of evidence based-design and the business case for building optimal hospitals.

Chris Durkee
Mr. Durkee is the business development manager for Turner Healthcare. He has more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry and has worked in Turner’s Los Angeles office since 1998. He is responsible for business development and preconstruction activities, contract negotiations and initial project coordination. He provides project oversight throughout the preconstruction and construction phases to ensure that client objectives are clearly understood and achieved by the project teams.

Chris has extensive experience working with a variety of contract types including guaranteed maximum price, design/build, lump sum, and construction management, and has worked with a wide range of public and private sector clients.

An experienced speaker and lecturer, Chris has presented to national audiences and has held numerous teaching and guest lecture assignments. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Southern California and his M.B.A., with a dual focus in finance and marketing, from The Claremont Graduate School.

Robert P. Fry Jr.

Bob Fry is a an investment advisor who works exclusively with charitable organizations. He served a number of years with Merrill Lynch in various capacities including Philanthropic Consultant, Financial Advisor and Director of Investments for Merrill Lynch Trust Company. In that position, he supervised the investment processes that guided the trust company’s $10 billion in trust assets and served as chairman of the Investment Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he was Director of Charitable Services for Van Deventer & Hoch, Investment Counsel. While there, he assisted charitable organizations as a portfolio manager and consultant on the investment aspects of planned giving. He also spent more than 10 years in private practice as a business and securities law attorney. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California and the degree of Juris Doctor from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is involved in a number of community organizations including the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine, and the Christian Management Association.