The Center for Health Design

Read the August 2024 Currents newsletter: https://loom.ly/GWvJq-Q Want to hear who's doing what, where and how in healthcare design? Our monthly Currents newsletter features new research, tools, resources and events for you. Follow the link to see our August 2024 newsletter.

Learn more and register: https://loom.ly/uQirfvw Join us August 15 for our behavioral health webinar day. In our first webinar — Building a Community Cornerstone: The Franklin County Crisis Care Center, presenters Jonathan Thomas, Gina Livingston-Smith and Joy Brunson-Nsubuga will share how the Franklin County Crisis Care Center (opening Spring 2025) will set a new standard of mental health and addiction crisis by integrating collaborative planning and evidence-based design practices. Following is A Conversational User’s Guide for the New York State Office of Mental Health Patient Safety Standards. Attend to hear Sara Wengert, Alethea Splittgerber and Matt Coonradt provide a brief history of The Patient Safety Standards, Materials and Systems Guidelines and its purpose in the context of New York State’s Office of Mental Health. Thank you to our sponsors: Stance Healthcare, Whitehall Manufacturing, Pineapple Contracts USA, Accurate Lock and Hardware, ModuForm, Inc., Kingsway Group USA, Norix Furniture, Safehinge Primera USA and Spec Furniture Inc..

Visit our Job Board: https://loom.ly/Es5vijk The Center's Job Board is a resource for those seeking job positions 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 through design research, education and community-building at the link.

View all aging resources here: https://loom.ly/3rDr_V0 Specialized designs and technologies, often mandated by the ADA Accessibility Standards, are inadequate to meet the needs and abilities of older adults. In contrast, universal design is an appropriate, but underused strategy. On the one hand, universal design is seen as merely another name for specialized designed, while on the other hand, it has been dismissed as an unattainable utopian panacea. Visit our Impact of Aging toolbox - open to all thanks to our sponsor Patcraft - and watch the Design for One is Design for All: The Past, Present and Future of Universal Design for Aging webinar to learn about UD, why its potential to be a panacea for design for aging is unattainable in the physical world, and how it is poised to become a reality and fulfill its promise through the world of digital technologies.

Learn more and register: https://loom.ly/kpWnbME Hear Ryan Searles of IMEG, leading expert in security assessment, protective services, and crisis management, share why involving security design early in the planning and design process is the best way to ensure the safest building environment for occupants. He will examine the importance of security design throughout all phases of the planning and design process, and the considerations teams must evaluate to maximize safety and security for all building occupants. These insights will help design teams and owners understand the steps and processes security consultants utilize to help design firms not only build beautiful and safe buildings, but most importantly increase the overall safety of the individuals that occupy them. Affiliate discounts apply.

Register here: https://loom.ly/u-1vqzA Have you wondered whether Lean and Evidence-Based Design (EBD) can be part of the same project? EBD is the process of basing decisions about the built environment using credible research to achieve the best outcomes. Lean is a method that focuses on defining and maximizing value, eliminating waste and continuous improvement. To address today’s challenges, they need to go hand-in-hand. By integrating these value-based approaches during the planning, design, construction and occupancy of a project, you can maximize project outcomes while improving performance. Attend this two-day interactive workshop to hear experts Donna Deckard from The Center for Health Design, Terri Zborowsky from HGA, Andrea Sponsel, RID, EDAC, LSSBB, LEED AP from HKS, Inc. and Jeff O'Neill from RWJBarnabas Health illustrate how the design and implementation process can be informed, complemented, and enhanced by an Evidence-Based Design (EBD) process that uses research findings, data collection and evaluation of results + a Lean methodology for problem solving and continuous improvement. Affiliate discounts apply.

Learn more and register: https://loom.ly/uQirfvw Join us August 15 for our behavioral health webinar day sponsored by Stance Healthcare, Whitehall Manufacturing, Pineapple Contracts USA, Accurate Lock and Hardware, ModuForm, Inc., Kingsway Group USA, Norix Furniture, Safehinge Primera USA and Spec Furniture Inc.. In our first webinar — Building a Community Cornerstone: The Franklin County Crisis Care Center, presenters Jonathan Thomas, Gina Livingston-Smith and Joy Brunson-Nsubuga will share the Franklin County Crisis Care Center project (opening Spring 2025) from three distinct perspectives: community activation, an evidence-based care delivery model, and the design process to create a built environment suited to all stakeholder needs. After is A Conversational User’s Guide for the New York State Office of Mental Health Patient Safety Standards. Presenters Sara Wengert, Alethea Splittgerber and Matt Coonradt will share how, when and why to use the Patient Safety Standards on projects, and how to educate clients and colleagues on the applicability of the document.

Learn more and register: https://loom.ly/IjExDT4 Our in-person behavioral health workshop is remarkable for the conversations over lunch that help solve a problem, the new ideas shared during coffee, and chance encounters during break that lead to fruitful collaborations. Beyond the new research, strategies and case studies delivered by a dynamic, forward-looking and expert faculty are the priceless one-on-one “moments” that happen when like-minded colleagues spend quality time together. And the timing for us to gather, share and advance our understanding and skills couldn’t be more urgent. Behavioral health design is the issue of the day. Register for our September 17th workshop in Los Angeles, CA to learn how we can design and build care environments that improve safety and treatment in a dignified manner. Advance rate ends August 16. Affiliate discounts apply. Thanks to our workshop sponsor partners: Accurate Lock and Hardware, Altro Limited, architecture+, Whitehall Manufacturing, Kingsway Group USA, ModuForm, Inc., Norix Furniture, Page, Pineapple Contracts USA, Proximity Systems, Safehinge Primera USA, Spec Furniture Inc., Stance Healthcare and Visa Lighting

Learn more and register: https://loom.ly/kpWnbME Preparing for and managing disruptive and potentially dangerous agitated patients or visitors has moved to the top of the list of critical issues facing healthcare owners, facilities management, designers, clinical and administrative staff, and all stakeholders. This webinar, presented by leading expert in security assessment, protective services, and crisis management Ryan Searles CPD of IMEG, will examine the importance of security design throughout all phases of the planning and design process, and the considerations teams must evaluate to maximize safety and security for all building occupants. Attend to identify security systems to consider during design as well as other strategies and tactics that can benefit clients and keep all occupants as safe as possible. Affiliate discounts apply.

View our May 2024 Tools & Resources newsletter: https://loom.ly/Es6buII Our monthly Tools & Resources newsletter features a variety of Center-produced resources to help inform our design community of the best and latest research, tools and design solutions. The topic of our August 2024 newsletter is behavioral health environments. The challenges created by today’s growing mental health and substance abuse crises, further exposed by the pandemic, reach far beyond the behavioral health unit into emergency departments, outpatient clinics and throughout acute and ambulatory care settings. To support improved care and enhance staff safety, today’s design, facility and care professionals must advance their understanding of the environment’s impact on behavioral health care and incorporate the best and latest research, tools and design solutions throughout all healthcare settings.