Good news! You have been asked to represent your organization at the annual Healthcare Facilities
Planning conference in Hawaii. Your specific assignment is to attend a presentation by Ray Dufresne on
best practices for capital planning and, when you return, to tell your boss which of Dufresne's practices
you think is most essential for ensuring that your organization's capital plan will be successful.
After reading Chapter 2 of Simplifying the Complex : A Guide to Transition and Activation Planning for
Healthcare Construction Projects, identify the best practice that you think is most essential for ensuring
that an organization's capital plan will be successful, and explain why you think it is most essential.
Support your discussion with evidence-based resources, written using APA format.
Communication is important for transparency as well as efficiency. “…use existing processes or
communication methods and tools that have been successfully used in the past and establishing a
cadence and format to report on a regular basis” (Ahmadi, et al., 2020). If all members of the financial
team are not sharing information regularly and effectively, vital information will be missed. This is not
good when trying to plan and save for unforeseen costs that may pop up, or to try and stay ahead of
trends. There are different tools that can be used like the monthly slide deck, project roadmap, 90-day
communication tool, and a project dashboard. Lack of communication can drastically affect the capital
budget and leave the organization on unstable ground.
