The Saskatoon Health Region will use VFA's Capital Planning and Management Solution (CPMS™) to obtain a comprehensive and accurate understanding of the condition of healthcare facilities across the region and develop effective long-term plans for capital investment. With a need to justify budgetary funding requests, Saskatoon Health Region engaged VFA to obtain detailed facility condition data on the region's portfolio. The condition data collected by VFA will be input into the VFA.facility® analytic and decision support software enabling Saskatoon Health to create its multi-year capital plans and budgets.

"The facilities we're charged with managing are spread out over the entire region, so it's a challenge to constantly maintain a clear picture of the condition across the entire portfolio," said Grant Sommerfeld, Preservation Program Manager for the Saskatoon Health Region. "We turned to VFA because of their extensive experience in assessing and analyzing healthcare facilities. We will use the VFA solution to develop and prioritize funding for defensible long-term capital plans."

VFA has a long track record of working with Canadian healthcare organizations to improve their long-term maintenance and multi-year capital planning efforts. Organizations including the British Columbia Ministry of Health, The Ottawa Hospital and Eastern Health in Newfoundland have worked with VFA to gather facility condition data, analyze their capital spending needs over the long-term and manage their ongoing investment in capital improvements.

"Based on the extensive work we've done in the healthcare sector and our understanding of the challenges facing these organizations, VFA is able to offer healthcare institutions and their funding bodies a combination of assessment services and software tools that address their unique capital planning needs," said Susan Anson, General Manager of VFA Canada Corp. "This approach will position the Saskatoon Health Region to most effectively prioritize and budget for capital projects going forward."

About VFA Canada Corp.
Headquartered in Vancouver, VFA Canada Corp. is the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management. VFA's Capital Planning and Management Solution (CPMS™) uniquely combines facility assessment services, Web-based software, and business consulting services to enable clients to manage every stage of the capital asset lifecycle from requirements gathering and long-term planning to capital budget creation and spend management. VFA has helped more than 300 organizations in corporate, education, government and healthcare markets to strategically manage more than two billion square feet of real estate. For more information, please call (888) 685-3757 or visit http://www.vfa.com/index_canada.htm.