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Just because construction is over and building occupancy has been granted doesn’t mean the facility is ready for business or that the staff is prepared to care for patients in the new setting. 

The new building needs to be activated — opened, occupied and put into operation. 

Relocating services, assets, personnel and clients requires extensive planning. Future-state processes must be conceived to coordinate with the new physical design. Associated equipment and procedure training is required, building and life safety orientation is essential, and building readiness must be synced with operational readiness.   

Many organizations hire large consulting firms, project managers or logistics entities, and pay extraordinary fees, to accomplish these tasks on their behalf.  Other organizations avoid the cost and simply muddle through with hope that nothing disastrous happens. I have learned through years as a nurse administrator, healthcare executive, and transition consultant that there is a better way.  

Healthcare leadership is more than capable of planning, managing and implementing large scale change if they’re informed on what to do and how to do it.

They prove this routinely in dealing with regulatory reviews, emergency preparedness, IT implementation, and daily life or death situations.  A better approach to a successful transition and activation is to secure advice and guidance for your team from someone who has done it many times before in a wide variety of contexts.  By empowering the organization’s workforce to own and execute the initiative, it is not only a less expensive solution but also one that heightens employee engagement and creates a greater opportunity for lasting positive outcomes. Unlike a consultant that “does it all,” our approach is to share information, tools, lessons learned, forms, templates, checklists and examples about what works and what doesn’t.

We provide our guidance, support and advice, mostly virtually and often “behind the scenes,” so that the organization and staff can use its own talent to achieve a safe and successful transition + activation project.  

The results represent a value addition rather than a burden to the project budget.  Engaged staff ensuring a safe relocation to a beautiful new building enlivened with improved processes results in a better and brighter future.