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BUSINESS NEWS LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL STANFORD EXPANSION REACHES WEATHER-TIGHT CONSTRUCTION MILESTONE IN ADVANCE OF EL NIÑO SEASON The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Expansion reached an important milestone this week, becoming weather-tight before the antici- pated wet El Niño season begins. The 521,000 square-foot expansion and new main building is more than halfway through construction, and the exterior of the building is anticipated to be completed at the end of this year. “We are one step closer to opening the nation’s most technologically advanced, family-friendly and environmentally sustainable hospital for in- fants, children and expectant mothers,” said Christopher Dawes, presi- dent and chief executive officer of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. “Our innovative facilities will help set the stage for the future of health care for children, and we are grateful that we will be able to meet the increased demand for pediatric and obstetric care as the Bay Area population continues to grow.” Scheduled to open in summer 2017, the expansion will optimize the hospital’s services and infrastructure, adding more beds, private rooms, state-of-the-art operating suites, family-friendly amenities and the flex- ible floor space the hospital needs to adapt to new technologies and streamline services. Designed by Perkins + Will Architects with Ex- ecutive Architect HGA , the expansion almost doubles the size of the current hospital and adds 149 patient beds when completed. This will make a total of 397 licensed beds for the San Francisco Bay Area’s larg- est enterprise for children and expectant mothers, and ensures families needing the highest quality of care will not be turned away due to lack of space. “As the wettest expected winter in years quickly approaches, we’re thrilled that the hospital construction is weather-tight,” said Michael Lane, vice president of construction. “This accomplishment will help to ensure the future functionality of the building and keep us on schedule as we move into the final phase of construction.” Since the project broke ground in September 2012, more than 40 million pounds of steel and rebar have been installed to support the building. Interior work is now under way in addition to construction of some the distinctive and child-friendly architectural elements of the new facility,

goals for performance is a disservice to ourselves and to others. Establishing realistic expectations will not only allow you to better develop long-term relationships, but it will reduce the level of stress on you and your staff. STEP 6. Understand what you want to achieve in business and in life. Work-life balance is much discussed and just as much ignored. My engineer dad retired 30 years ago at age 58, so you’d think I would have better priorities. But while he is talking about golf, I am talking about what I need to do over the weekend to get ready for the next workweek. Taking a step back from the conversation, it seems pretty clear who maintained the best life balance during their pro- fessional career. Learning to let go, when it comes to stress, is an important first step to getting your priorities in line. Ready to reduce the stress of your job? It all starts by admitting you want to make a change and then following through with the plan. You are not alone and with the help of those around you, you can reduce the load on you and on others. Lift some of those pressures from your back, and bring the balance back into your world. Stephen Lucy is managing partner at JQ in Dallas, TX. Contact him at slucy@jqeng.com including the glass Tree House façade and outdoor Discovery Garden. A leader in sustainability, the $1.1 billion Lucile Packard Children’s Hos- pital Stanford expansion is also setting a new standard for sustainable hospital design. 100 percent of the irrigation needs for the hospital land- scaping and gardens will be harvested from rainwater and wastewater, saving approximately 800,000 gallons of water per year. Inside the hos- pital, water-efficient bathroom fixtures and fittings will reduce potable water usage by 30 percent. With the hospital expansion and new main building, high-demand pro- grams like the Heart Center, Johnson Center for Pregnancy and New- born Services, Bass Childhood Cancer Center and more will have room to grow and benefit from the additional space. “More-efficient floor plans based on user feedback from our staff, the people actually using the rooms, will allow us to provide seamless, fam- ily-centered care,” said Jill Ann Sullivan, vice president of hospital trans- formation and space planning. “By making these adjustments, we were able to integrate new technology into patient spaces and deliver care more efficiently, while providing our patients and their families with the comfortable, therapeutic environment needed to heal.”

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I have been as guilty of this offense as the next person. I behaved like a squirrel storing nuts for the winter, as I did not want our staff to want for work in the lean times or for our competitors to have access to our clients. We joke about it now, but my partners eventually asked me to repeat the word “no” 10 times before I came into work each day so I could understand what it sounded like. Understanding that saying “no” is acceptable can be empowering and allows you to manage your stress and funnel your energies into more productive paths. STEP 5. Manage expectations. How many of us have stated in our firm profiles that we provide the “highest” level of service or a level of service “exceeding” industry standards? We all have, as we want to differentiate ourselves from our peers. But by making that statement, we have established a level of expectation that we will never be able to obtain. Why do you want to set your firm up for failure and likely increase the level of stress to achieve the unachievable? I was taught early in my career that it was more important to have honest, open communications with my clients than to promise the moon and risk failure. Setting unrealistic

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