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What are you Building…and Why?—A Guide to the Answers
January 2022 ∘ Webinar

This webinar will highlight how to use our tool and how it can enable design teams to enhance communication, encourage innovation, and highlight both quality and quantity.  
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Rapid City, SD
January 2022 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project

ARCH Design's objective was to support an enhanced patient experience by developing a localized artwork program representing the region's culturally diverse population, creating comfort and connection through relevant and familiar imagery. Evidence-based design guided the artwork selections by focusing on how it would impact both patients and caregivers.
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Providence Care Hospital Kingston, Ontario, Canada
January 2022 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project

There were key goals addressed to guide the design excellence parameters: to promote recovery and transition; to foster connection and connectivity with people and their surroundings; to create a healing environment; to enhance the staff and patient experience; to enhance co-mingling (of staff, patients, visitors and community); and to reduce stigma.  
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

The Center for Advanced Healthcare at Brownwood (CAHB), The Villages, FL
January 2022 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Located within a large senior living community, the following goals of the outpatient facility were tantamount:

Reduce patient falls Reduce patient stress Increase patient satisfaction Increase staff satisfaction
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Leaps and Bounds: Advancing the Understanding around Why Children’s Hospitals are Different
December 2021 ∘ Webinar

This webinar discusses top pediatric health issues and care models as a foundation for understanding important, unique pediatric healthcare design needs. In addition, the presenter will examine project examples that illustrate how unique needs can be incorporated and what provides most value in design and planning.  
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Neurodiversity at Boston Children’s Brookline: A Triumph of Patient-Centered Design
December 2021 ∘ Webinar

The team will highlight elements of a cross-disciplinary approach to environmental design where programming, planning, architecture, wayfinding, and interiors all work together to choreograph a uniquely engaging yet calm, safe, patient-centered experience.  
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Contemporary Women's Care
January 2022 ∘ Member Project

Contemporary Women’s Care is an all-female OB/GYN practice dedicated to the total health care needs of women living in the greater Orlando, Florida, area. One of the few truly independent OB/GYN practices left in the greater Orlando area, the team at Contemporary Women’s Care is passionate about preserving the relationships between patients and their providers.  When the Director of Contemporary Women's Care, Dr. Pam Snook,  saw the Paladin rail products in action at the hospitals she decided to incorporate our philosophy of “…..if it’s on a wall it’s on a rail” throughout her new facility.
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Post-Pandemic Healthcare Design for Black Communities
November 2021 ∘ Webinar

The webinar will focus on the concept of the advocate architect and will also feature recent design solutions from architectural graduate students at Miami University in Oxford Ohio. Finally, recommended steps for the evolution of this type of design approach and practice will be identified.  
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Culturally-Reflective Healthcare Environments: Techniques and Case Studies
November 2021 ∘ Webinar

This webinar provides a comprehensive view of the unique healthcare challenges faced in Indian Country and the opportunities that exist for AE firms to respond with a culturally-reflective design approach, regardless of client population.   
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Biophilic Design and the Healthcare Workplace
November 2021 ∘ Webinar

This webinar will focus on how we can use the elements of biophilic design to create meaningful work and restorative spaces to support staff in various environments within the healthcare workplace. Biophilic principals and case studies will be shared.