RISK MANAGEMENT
Adaptive risk management for regional hospitals
In an article first published in the Institute of Healthcare Engineering, Australia magazine, Healthcare Facilities, Adam Garnys, Principal consultant, and his colleague, Josiah Padget, Lead consultant, both of technical risk consultancy, CETEC, argue that ‘a growing wave of post-pandemic migration to regional Australia will burden remote hospitals, increasing stress on facilities, and intensifying risk’. However, they ask, what if we are able to better manage the burden and increased risk?
While COVID-19 has, thankfully, not been as devastating as predicted in Australia, this last year has seen life disrupted across the whole country. Coronavirus has shown us the future of flexible working, an increasing disparity in income to city property costs, and made our connection to nature and rural Australia ever more attractive. A recent forecast, backed by the Regional Australia Institute, expects the aftershocks of COVID-19 to impact regional population trends, with a growing number of millennials looking to regional areas over capital city living. However, it’s not just individuals driving this migration. Ten major businesses, including Telstra, and two well-known banks, have committed to long-term flexible working arrangements. Signing up to the Regional Council 2031, these companies are actively encouraging staff to live and work in regional areas.
With such an increase in patient population comes a larger scrutiny of risk management practices. Reports from the Real Estate Institute indicate that regional areas are already seeing an influx of new residents, so how can we practically improve our hospital facilities and reduce risk with an increasing strain on resources?
Three key challenges
CETEC’s Josiah Padget, says: “Ultimately, the best technical risk consultancy will be available when you need them, both onsite and virtually.”
This article, titled ‘Post Pandemic Trends: Four Adaptive Risk Management Strategies for Regional Hospitals’, first appeared in the December 2020 issue of Healthcare Facilities, the magazine of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering, Australia (IHEA). HEJ would like to thank the author, the IHEA, and the magazine’s publishers, Adbourne Publishing, for allowing its reproduction here.
34 Health Estate Journal February 2021
Here are the three challenges currently reshaping the management of risk in Regional Hospitals: n With risk management under more scrutiny, how can we verify our infrastructure, and get environmental monitoring samples to accredited laboratories from remote locations in time to not compromise results?
n With a predicted stretch on our operational resources, how can we most economically manage risk?
n If resources are stretched, how do we best manage the wider range of environmental challenges in remote areas?
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