Insights & Solutions

This is the first episode of Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 - The Lightning Round.  It features 12 questions in 25 minutes with one design industry expert, and a fun 5-10 minute segment at the end of the episode called, "A Thing of the Past" or "Here to Stay".

In this podcast, Amy shares what it was like to walk into the operating room to have 20 strangers staring at her right before her serious brain surgery, and how that experience changed her approach to healthcare design. “I ended up having a benign brain tumor and it blew my world apart fairly quickly,” says Amy. 

This webinar will examine the Behavioral Health Crisis Stabilization Unit as a case study, including direct outcomes achieved by the project. Since opening, the unit has had a positive effect on the ED, lessening mental health patients in the ED and decreasing the psychiatric inpatient admission rates for patients.

This webinar will discuss some of the common challenges witnessed and used to develop the testing methods – with a focus on ligature performance and robustness.  Hear about their learnings about doors and windows which feature so highly with sentinel events that they needed their own category of testing.   Review key areas of risk within mental health environments and lessons learned about managing risk in reality.    

This episode highlights the wicked smart, funny and talented Sara Parsons, ASID, CHID, EDAC, NCIDQ, Principal at Gallun Snow - a nationally recognized interior design firm that specializes in healing, learning and community environments. 

Ana Pinto-Alexander, RID, IIDA, EDAC, is the award winning Principal and Group Director for Health Interiors at HKS Architects.

Scott McFadden is the Director of Design at BSA LifeStructures–an architectural and engineering firm that designs facilities to support, enhance and inspire healing, learning and discoveries.

Avigail Eisenstadt is the founder and Principal of AE Design Group, LLC - a New York interior design firm that has built an unparalleled reputation for skillful design and discerning accommodations in the healthcare, commercial, corporate, hospitality, and residential sectors.