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Pediatric Healthcare Design: Top Challenges and Future Opportunities


When: November 16, 2023
Time: 10:00am Pacific
Price: FREE
Registration was open until 11/16/2023 at 4pm, and is now closed.

1.5 units EDAC continuing education
1.5 units AIA continuing education**
IDCEC credit also available**

CEU forms will be made available day of webinar

CEUs

A virtual exchange of experiences, insights and expectations among exemplars of the healthcare and design industries.

Dialogue Details

  • 90 minutes
  • Guided panel discussion
  • Interactive, live attendee chat with extended, facilitated Q&A
  • Post-dialogue recording, resources, and chat notes
     

 

Given the increase in staffing shortages, capacity challenges, and financial strains, children’s hospitals and their allies must work hard to keep a spotlight on investing in higher quality facilities and capturing emerging technology. In April 2022, a multi-disciplinary group of senior executives in children’s hospital administration, architecture and design, and product and service industries – the Pediatric Environment Network – was convened by The Center for Health Design to advance the pediatric environment and help children’s hospitals stay on the forefront of design. This Voices panel features members from this network.

This program provides a glimpse into the top challenges and future opportunities for the pediatric environment that this group has been addressing. These multi-disciplinary thought-leaders will share the insights gleaned from their collaborative, content-packed sessions, site visits, and collective experiences. They’ll share the critical issues facing today’s pediatric environments and describe what they are seeing in children’s hospital environments that is truly groundbreaking.

 

Thank you to our VOICES Sponsor Partner

 

 

VOICES is The Center for Health Design’s premier visionary discussion forum. These hosted interactive webinar panels engage key leaders, from across our industry in discussions that address critical issues, trends, and opportunities of importance in Healthcare and the future of the built environment.

  • Each session will feature a panel of exemplars who will share their experiences from their unique perspectives with a guided discussion and facilitated Q&A.
  • The facilitated format will have extended Q&A with live chat from virtual attendees, post-session recording, and chat notes available.
  • The series's goals are to help individuals and organizations make a difference by illuminating key opportunities, strategies, and innovations while providing a clear link to helpful and thought-provoking resources at the end of each session.  
     

 

Learning Objectives

  • Describe five top of mind issues for today’s pediatric environment and their implications for design interventions.
  • Understand the compelling reasons that children’s hospitals are different from other hospitals and the implications for design decisions. 
  • Explore case study examples of what children’s hospitals are doing to keep pace with emerging and future facility needs. 
  • Understand the unique needs of young patients and their families and how design decisions must be tailored to meet those needs. 

 

 

Presenting Faculty

Host

Judy Smith
Pediatric Environment Network Facilitator, The Center for Health Design

Judy Smith is the facilitator for The Center for Health Design’s Pediatric Environment Network (PEN).  She is an experienced and recognized management consultant, facility planner, active lecturer, and strategist, working exclusively with children and women’s services throughout her career. Her extensive experience includes completing more than 1,000 women and children’s health care projects in the United States and internationally.

Judy’s expertise in children’s health extends beyond management consulting to past participation in the development of facility guidelines used by state regulatory agencies and professional associations. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at national meetings, and has written and contributed to numerous publications on women and children’s health services and facilities.

 

This panel features members of The Center for Health Design's Pediatric Environment Network – senior executives in children’s hospital administration, architecture and design, and product and service industries, joined together to advance pediatric facility design.

 

Panelists

Elizabeth Brinkley
Principal, The Innova Group

Recognized for her knowledge of healthcare planning and operations, and skills in facilitation, Elizabeth’s expertise draws from 35 years of healthcare facility, operational and strategic planning, and programming proficiency. She brings focus and structure to help resolve complicated questions. 

Having worked with many of the top children’s hospitals, Elizabeth has honed her understanding of both the environmental requirements of caring for children as well as the unique strategic and operational challenges. She realizes her passion for improving healthcare by providing implementable and innovative solutions.

 

Peter Sawras
Director, Facilities Planning, SickKids – The Hospital for Sick Children

Peter Sawras is the Director of Facilities Planning at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) based in Toronto, Ontario. Regularly cited as one of the world’s top five healthcare institutions dedicated to improving children’s health, SickKids is Canada’s leading pediatric center, improving outcomes through the integration of care, research and learning. SickKids delivers tertiary and quaternary medical and surgical care for complex patients across Ontario, Canada and the rest of the world.

Peter’s portfolio includes facilities planning, facilities development and infrastructure renewal, managing the planning, design and construction of projects. Peter’s team also manages leasing, land transactions, interactions with regulatory agencies and various government agencies. Peter has been with SickKids for over 16 years in addition to the many years he provided consulting services to SickKids and other hospitals in Canada.

 

Mezio Zangirolami
Pediatric Planning Principal, Associate Vice President, HGA

As a pediatric planning principal, Mezio leverages his expertise in children’s environments to further HGA’s national market strategy and ability to deliver innovative and beautiful projects for current and future pediatric clients. He specializes in the planning, programming, and design of pediatric healthcare facilities.

Mezio holistically approaches design and planning – integrating exterior and interior to make a positive impact on the environment and the people who experience it. Applying over 20 years of extensive insight and learnings from working with leading pediatric institutions, he has demonstrated his ability to guide integrated planning and design solutions that align excellence in care delivery, experience of children, families and caregivers, with organizational business and identity.

 

Natalie Miovski Hagerty, AIA, LEED AP, EDAC, SSGBC
AVP, Facilities Planning, Design and Integration, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 

Natalie Miovski Hagerty AIA, LEED AP, EDAC, SSGBC, is the Assisitant Vice President of Facilities Planning, Design and Integration for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Prior to this role, she was the National Director of Healthcare for EwingCole and led large-scale healthcare projects for Geisinger Health System, Penn Medicine and Tenet Healthcare. Natalie is Healthcare Design’s 2013 Rising Star and one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2014 40 under 40.

 

Tom Squance, BA Arch (Hons), Dip Arch, ARB
Director, Capital Improvement Program, Stanford Medicine Children's Health

Tom Squance is Director of the Capital Improvement Program for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, where he ensures development and delivery of high quality healthcare projects for both the inpatient and outpatient environments in line with the organization’s mission and strategic plan.

He is an accomplished healthcare professional with over 25 years of experience, successfully delivering a wide range of high quality healthcare projects with drive, flexibility and stamina while establishing unified, holistic and partnering processes.

Coming from a background in architecture, Tom’s originally trained in the UK and practiced in a wide variety of sectors in both Europe and South-East Asia before relocating to the US. Before joining Stanford Medicine, Tom served as a Senior Associate at BFHL Architects/Harley Ellis Devereaux in San Francisco. In his approach to practice, Tom believes emotional intelligence skills are foundational in social and professional interactions to support effective collaboration with diverse and inclusive teams.

 

Many attendees of The Center for Health Design’s webinars have inquired about IDCEC approval so they can earn ASID, IIDA, and IDS CEU’s. We have looked into this and unfortunately, the cost to upload courses to IDCEC is simply too high at this time. You can still earn credit for attending our webinars by requesting a verification certificate.  For further details about how to self-report CEUs to IDCEC, please CLICK HERE.  

 

**As of July 9, 2020, The Center requires a CEU management fee for AIA credits and verification certificates for all webinars and EBD Journal Clubs. Please contact Natalie Gonzalez, Project Manager, ngonzalez@healthdesign.org with any questions.