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VFA Canada and Agnew Peckham Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Capital Planning Solutions for Healthcare Organizations
Vancouver, BC - April 24, 2006 - VFA Canada, the leading provider of software and services for facilities asset management and capital planning, today announced that Agnew Peckham & Associates, Ltd., a pioneer in Canadian healthcare consulting, has joined its Alliance Partner Program as a Solutions Marketing Partner. Agnew Peckham and VFA have joined forces to provide Canadian healthcare organizations with a comprehensive solution for managing information about facility condition and functional adequacy, and leveraging that information in the creation of long-term strategic capital plans.
VFA’s Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) services address multiple aspects of facilities condition, including deferred maintenance, building component lifecycle renewal, and code compliance, and functional deficiencies. The joint solution offered by VFA and Agnew Peckham employs best practice methodologies for both assessing the condition of a building and its major systems as well as for determining the appropriateness of a facility, or of a specific area within the facility, to its current function. A quantitative ranking system enables the assignment of scores to assist healthcare organizations in objectively prioritizing current requirements and focusing their capital initiatives where they will be most effective. Modeling tools for functional assessment, coupled with VFA’s award-winning software, VFA.facility®, provide a framework for organizations to evaluate alternatives for capital spending and their impact over time.
"Healthcare organizations face a host of complex issues when planning for the future of their facilities, ranging from community and patient demographics to clinical services standards," said Stephen Bagworth, Managing Partner, Agnew Peckham. "By combining best-of-breed methodologies for both facility condition and functional assessments, and sophisticated modeling and decision support tools, Agnew Peckham and VFA are helping healthcare organizations optimally plan for the future."
"Our healthcare clients – ranging from individual hospitals to provincial health authorities and ministries – want to ensure that they can provide a consistently high standard of care today and tomorrow," added Susan Anson, General Manager of VFA Canada Corp. "By working together, VFA and Agnew Peckham are helping these organizations to successfully align their investment in facilities with their functional objectives, and create long-term capital plans that will best serve their communities."
VFA and Agnew Peckham recently presented a webinar, entitled "Long-Term Capital Planning for Canadian Healthcare Organizations: Best Practices in Aligning Facilities with Functional Objectives," that described an approach for aligning a healthcare organization’s capital planning process with its functional objectives. The webinar includes a case study on the British Columbia Ministry of Health Services Capital Services Branch. To view the webinar, please visit http://www.vfa.com/hc_webinar/index.htm.
Through its Alliance Partner Program, VFA fosters strategic partnerships with select organizations throughout North America to deliver world-class facilities capital planning and management products and services. VFA partners include architectural/engineering firms, facilities outsourcers, software providers, systems integrators and consulting firms. Organizations interested in information about VFA partnership opportunities should visit http://www.vfa.com/partners/partner_application.htm.
About Agnew Peckham
Agnew Peckham is a multidisciplinary healthcare consulting firm that works exclusively with healthcare organizations across Canada, providing a full range of planning services including strategic and clinical program planning, operational planning, and facilities programming and planning. With over 55 years of experience, the firm has worked with an extensive variety of healthcare organizations including large and small, rural and urban, community and academic hospitals, rehabilitation, continuing care and long-term care centres, medical research institutes and community care organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.agnewpeckham.com.
About VFA
Headquartered in Boston and Vancouver, VFA, Inc. is the leading provider of software and services for facilities management and capital planning. VFA provides powerful Web-based software and consulting services to nearly 300 organizations to strategically manage over two billion square feet of real estate. VFA’s Capital Planning and Management Solution (CPMS™) uniquely combines condition assessment services, Web-based decision support software and business consulting services to enable clients to achieve their missions by optimizing investments in facilities and infrastructure. VFA has a strong customer base in education, federal, state and local government, healthcare and corporate markets. For more information, please call 888-685-3757 or visit http://www.vfa.com/index_canada.htm.
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Laura Cook
VFA, Inc.
617-451-5100
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Erik Clausen/Liz Serotte
Schwartz Communications
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vfa@schwartz-pr.com
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