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Meet Me in Atlanta
Dear Friends of The Center,
2024 has been a year of exciting change for The Center as we launched new strategic initiatives to enhance engagement between the healthcare design and healthcare provider communities – and we’re barely halfway through it!
Most exciting and rewarding has been our new role as a Strategic Educational Collaborator with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE), and the transition of our conference affiliation and educational healthcare design programming to the PDC Summit, where we have joined ten other industry-leading non-profit associations as a Supporting Organization.
Our first PDC Summit this past March in San Diego was everything we hoped for and more. We debuted our new Research, Design & Outcomes learning track with 12 exceptional sessions by our research staff, environment networks, and healthcare design's foremost thinkers. And we re-connected with old friends and made new ones at our wine and cheese social, at our booth, and throughout the four-day event.
I can’t believe we’re already deep into planning for the 2025 Summit in Atlanta – these PDC folks know how to plan and get ahead of the game!
Speaking of which, we’ve just unveiled our expanded 24-session track for the 2025 Summit, plus our pre-conference workshop on Integrating Lean and EBD. We’re presenting a tremendous variety of course offerings on topics related to Design Research, Design for Patient Experience and Outcomes, Technology and Design, Behavioral Health Design, Pediatric Design, Design for Staff Wellness, and The Business of Design. Check them all out here.
One of the things our friends told us they really liked about the Summit was the value – four-day, full-conference registration is just $1,150. And Affiliate members at any level pay the discounted ASHE member price – just $925 saving you an additional $225. Summit registration is open, and the full PDC Summit agenda will be available here any day now.
We’ll let you know as soon as the full agenda is up on the PDC website. In the meantime, save these dates – March 9 to 12, 2025 – and make plans to join us in Atlanta!
Be Well,
Debra Levin, Hon. FASID, EDAC
President and CEO
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WE INVITE YOU
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Two Free Behavioral Health Webinars
Building a Community Cornerstone: The Franklin County Crisis Care Center
August 15, 2024
10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
FREE | CEUs Available
Learn how collaborative planning for community solutions, coupled with evidence-based design practices, are setting a new standard of mental health and addiction crisis care.
Presenters will also introduce the Recovery Innovations (RI) model of crisis care and how this model and specific areas of facility design support three distinct levels of care: behavioral health urgent care, crisis stabilization, and inpatient services.
Learn more and register.
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A Conversational User’s Guide for the New York State Office of Mental Health Patient Safety Standards
August 15, 2024
12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET
FREE | CEUs Available
Learn how, when and why to use the these Patient Safety Standards – referenced throughout the US, listed as a reference standard by FGI, and used by Joint Commission Surveyors—and leverage the regularly updated research and testing conducted to identify products that represent best practices for safety and contribute to a positive therapeutic environment.
Learn more and register.
Thanks to our Sponsor Partners: Accurate Lock & Hardware, BestCare by Whitehall, Kingsway Group, ModuForm, Norix, Pineapple, Safehinge Primera, Spec and Stance Behavioral Health
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Upcoming In-Person Workshop
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Behavioral and Mental Health: New Directions in Care and Design
of Environments to Support that Care
September 17, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
9:00 AM PT
CEUs Available
Affiliate Discounts Apply
The challenges created by today’s growing mental health and substance abuse crises reach far beyond the behavioral health unit into emergency departments, outpatient clinics and throughout acute care settings.
Join this in-person workshop to hear the latest in design thinking for behavioral healthcare and health settings while sharing state-of-the-art best practices through thought leader presentations, case studies, interactive group exercises and facilitated panel discussions.
Thanks to our Sponsor Partners: Accurate Lock & Hardware, Altro, architecture+, BestCare by Whitehall, Kingsway Group, ModuForm, Norix, Page/, Pineapple, Proximity Systems, Safehinge Primera, Spec, Stance Behavioral Health and Visa Lighting.
Advance Rate savings end August 16!
Learn more and register here.
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JOIN US AT THE 2025 PDC SUMMIT MARCH 9 – 12 IN ATLANTA, GA
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Register Now
The Center for Health Design is now a Strategic Educational Collaborator and Supporting Organization for the PDC Summit | The International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction.
At this year’s Summit The Center will produce and present a pre-conference evidence-based design workshop and a 24-session educational track – Research, Design and Outcomes – featuring recent work from The Center’s research team; Aging, Behavioral Health, Pediatric and Built Environment Networks; the HERD Journal, AAHID and other familiar and new healthcare design industry leaders.
Preview The Center’s 24-session leaning track & register here.
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Free Resources
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The Center for Health Design Job Board
The Center's Job Board is a resource for those seeking positions or prospective employees in healthcare architecture, design, facility planning or other related fields. Browse what is currently needed by companies or organizations that support our mission of improving the quality of healthcare.
Browse current listings.
Free Healthcare Facilities Management Magazine Subscription
Read the same project and industry news read by healthcare executives and facilities professionals – for free!
As ASHE’s new Strategic Education Collaborator and a PDC Summit Supporting Organization, The Center is pleased to extend to our community a free two-year digital subscription to HFM. Look for Center news, design research discoveries from our team, and in-depth features from The Center and our Environment Networks and research partners in each issue.
Get your free subscription here.
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Opportunities
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Become a HERD Journal Reviewer
Our partners at the Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD) are looking for peer reviewers to help grow their body of knowledge on patient, provider, and organizational outcomes.
HERD is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal whose mission is to enhance the knowledge and practice of evidence-based healthcare design by disseminating research findings, discussing issues and trends, and translating research into practice.
As a benefit, peer reviewers are eligible to receive EDAC and AIA CEU credits for conducting thorough reviews.
Learn about HERD Journal.
Center for Health Design Request for Expert Talent
We’re looking to share The Center’s global stage with subject matter experts, practitioners and thought leaders who can share their knowledge on a wide range of healthcare design topics with our community of 30,000+.
Submit your interest, experience and ideas via our quick and simple online form.
Learn more and submit your interest.
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Pediatric Perspectives in Health Care Design
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Yolanda Keys, R.N., NEA-BC, EDAC, Research Associate, The Center for Health Design
Children with disabilities spend considerable time in health care spaces, but there is little research examining their experiences. Three recent articles share different ways researchers collected children’s input and include recommendations for future design. Payam and colleagues used arts-based methods and interviews to collect data from young patients with disabilities, developmental delays, behavioral problems and/or chronic health conditions. Kids drew pictures of different locations within a clinic and then described their artwork.
HFM Magazine, read more...
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Addressing the Hidden Challenges to Rural Maternal Mental Health
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Since the early 2000s, a growing number of maternal care centers across the country have closed their doors – most of them in rural areas, creating dangerous care deserts. Maternal health care is already scarce in these areas as 45% of rural counties had no hospital maternity services before an additional 9% lost services between 2004 and 2014. While the lack of maternal care resources can gravely impact the physical health of a birthing person, it can also limit the amount and quality of maternal mental and behavioral health care.
MedCity News, read more...
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Sinks, Drains and the Need for Infection Control
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When it comes to restroom cleaning protocols, the focus is invariably on the cleanliness and appearance of restroom fixtures, floors, walls, counters and mirrors. But environmental services workers should know there are two especially critical areas that are often overlooked in the maintenance of a safe, clean restroom — sinks and drains.
Healthcare Facilities Today, read more...
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Growing Importance of Cultural Representation in Senior Living
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Expressing the culture of residents who are moving away from the homes where they’ve spent much of their lives has always been an important consideration, but there's a recent shift from mainly faith-based cultural considerations to broader notions of cultural affinity. Architects are often asked to design master plans and buildings that will enhance the culture and history of the places where they’re located. It requires sensitive engagement, especially as we commit more and more to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both on our design teams and for the people we serve.
Building Design + Construction, read more...
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Contact our VP Relationship Development Randy Carter, rcarter@healthdesign.org, (541) 965-1922.
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ABOUT US
For over 30 years the non-profit Center for Health Design has led and empowered current and future healthcare owners, clinicians, architects, designers, product & solution providers and other stakeholders in an industry-wide endeavor to maximize health through informed design.
By providing research, education and community-building to over 30,000 professionals worldwide, The Center drives measurable improvements in health, safety and business outcomes through evidence-based design of the built environment. Explore The Center’s resources, tools and learning opportunities at www.healthdesign.org.
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