Associate Director, Capital Projects and Operations
Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital
In 2023, a Facility Master Plan was conducted at the 50-year-old Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veteran’s Hospital (ALMMVH) of the VA South Texas Veteran’s Health Care System in San Antonio. The plan focused on interim strategies to optimize space utilization, keep complex cases in-house, increase clinical capacity, and prioritize
infrastructure needs. The collaborative effort involved multiple engagements with leadership (ELT), department staff, and facilities engineers/planners to identify system-wide and service-level facility opportunities and alternatives. In the end, project recommendations included “no regret strategies” to increase inpatient capacity and significantly improve the efficiency and flow of patients through the surgical platform. Later solutions were recommended for re-evaluation annually based on the status, anticipated timing, and potential funding for a replacement facility. Ultimately, the $38M in project recommendations would provide ALMMVH with facility capacity and throughput improvements in a relatively short timeframe to deliver a solid return on investment (ROI).
Core Competencies: Strategic Planning; Space Planning and Programming; Design; Equipment Planning; Transition Planning; Computer Principles and Applications
AIA Course Number: 2024.04.017
AIA CEU = 1 LU