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PentaView

PentaView are experienced planners, trainers, and development advisors for hospice residences and inpatient facilities. PentaView works with hospice organizations to translate wishes into action, dreams into realities, and create the positive momentum that leads to successful completion of development projects.

PentaView Consultants

Ruven Washor Liebhaber, R.A.

Ruven Liebhaber is an architect and project development advisor to mission driven organizations, managing capital projects from concept stage through completion. Mr. Liebhaber has 25 years of professional experience in team building, site acquisition, feasibility analysis, program concept planning, architectural design, and implementation oversight. He co-authored, with Andrew Bader, the industry standard manual Developing Hospice Residences: An Owner's Guide and Toolkit. Mr. Liebhaber consults to hospice organizations and directs capital projects at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He speaks regularly at regional and national professional conferences. Mr. Liebhaber is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, a marathon runner and a hospice volunteer.

Past Speaking Engagements

Massachusetts Hospice Federation
Marlborough, MA
November 1-2, 2005

Ruven Liebhaber presenting: "Partnering with a Hospital to Create a Hospice Inpatient Unit"

18th Symposium on Healthcare Design - http://www.hcaredesign.com
September 26-28, 2005
Atlanta, GA Hyatt Regency

"Creating Exemplary End-of Life Settings in Healthcare Facilities: the partnering of hospital and hospice to develop cost-saving inpatient units in under-utilized space"

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
25th annual Management & Leadership Conference

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Executive Education Seminar
"Positioning Small Capital Projects for Success" 7/13/05

Strategies necessary to garner community buy in and support for success in developing a hospice facility.

Assembling an Effective Project Team

This session offered an overview of the planning and project development process for hospice residences.

Adding a hospice residence to the continuum of care: the right move for your organization?

This session covered the key questions that hospice CEOs and Board members should be asking themselves as they consider whether to develop a hospice residence or not. Ruven Liebhaber and Andy Bader offered recommendations to help move a project from the “talking stage to planning and implementation.

"Just Like Home: Effective Strategies for Developing Hospice Residences"

"Process Management of Capital Projects"