BOMA MOB & Healthcare Facilities Conference 2018

Benjamin Boltin
Vice President, Sustainability & Planning
Hudson River Healthcare


Ben Boltin is the Vice President for Sustainability for Hudson River Healthcare, New York State’s largest community health center network serving over 175,000 patients at 30 sites in a ten-county region. Prior to joining HRHCare as Vice President, he was the founder and principal of Public Assembly Consultants. Since 1995 the firm provided consulting services to design professionals and organizations in the funding, planning, organization, operation, design and construction of institutional and health care organizations. Over three quarters of the firm’s clients have been non-profit community based organizations. Most projects are North American; however, the firm has also worked in South America, Europe and Asia. Projects range from national performing arts centers to universities to neighborhood health centers. Ben’s work has included over 350,000 square feet of Federally Qualified Health Center space and projects ranging from small interior renovations to cultural arts centers exceeding $250m. As an outreach worker for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Ben became involved in the Community Health Center movement and has spent over 25 years working with health centers throughout the Northeast. Working in a variety of capacities, he has been active in a broad range of health center operations including: strategic planning, to operations, to infection control, development and compliance and policy analysis. Ben has worked with a variety of prefabricated interior systems from a range of manufacturers. The most recent experience is the completion of a 20,000-square foot community health center in Poughkeepsie, New York involving DIRTT systems with two 40,000 square foot DIRTT based renovation project scheduled to commence construction in the 2nd quarter of 2018.

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