Name: Kristi Ennis
Award: 20 Making A Difference, 2007
Then: Sustainable design director, Boulder Associates Architects (Boulder, Colo.)
Now: Principal and sustainable design director, Boulder Associates Architects
What she’s been up to: Became a principal in 2008 and has since served on the Boulder Associates’ board of directors and the executive committee, and leads the firm’s efforts to give back to local communities where its offices are located.
Name: Tama Duffy Day
Award: Most Influential People in Healthcare Design, 2012
Then: Principal, global market sector leader for healthcare interior design, Perkins + Will (Washington, D.C.)
Now: Principal, firm-wide health and wellness practice area leader, Gensler (Chicago)
Name: David F. Chambers
Award: 20 Making A Difference, 2006
Then: Director, Planning Architecture & Design, Sutter Health (Sacramento, Calif.)
Now: President, David F. Chambers Consulting Inc. (Renton, Wash.)
Name: Rosalyn Cama
Award: Most Influential People in Healthcare Design, 2009 and 2010
Then and now: President, Cama Inc. (New Haven, Conn.)
Over the years, Healthcare Design has evolved its professional awards programs to celebrate individuals who are making meaningful contributions to the industry, with honorees ranging from organization presidents and design firm principals to researchers and construction managers, representing companies both large and small.
The Institute for Patient-Centered Design Inc. focused its fourth annual design competition on patient room design for mental health facilities, with the winner announced at the recent Healthcare Design Expo & Conference.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s one of the lessons gleaned from projects that healthcare organizations launched over the past decade to achieve some major sustainable design goals.
A hospital’s goal to achieve net-zero energy isn’t impossible, but it’s an effort that requires a combination of active and passive systems and community partnerships.
That was the message from Kim Shinn, a principal and senior sustainability wizard at TLC Engineering for Architecture, Brandon Bardowsky, director of facilities at Martin Health Systems, and Roy Gunsolus, principal at HKS Architects, during their session at the Healthcare Design Conference in Washington, D.C.
Among the challenges facing hospitals today is care for chronic patients—addressing how to keep them healthy and out of the hospital and serving them once they do arrive.
Reducing hospital readmissions is on the minds of designers, operators, and owners across the healthcare design spectrum—and rightfully so as penalties for these continue to take effect.
During a session at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in Washington, D.C., this week, speaker Natalie Abell, a senior associate, applied solutions group, at the ECRI Institute, identified two emerging specialty outpatient concepts and how they could help address this issue.
“Can the physical environment influence behavior in a positive way?” That was the question posed to attendees at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in the session, “Healthy Environments for Autism.”
Specifically, speakers Cathy Lord, a clinical psychologist and director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, and Jacques Black, president, DaSilva Architects, were talking about autism and the growing prevalence of the disorder over the last 20 years as awareness and diagnosis of the disease has grown.
Sibley Memorial Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, began master planning for a new pavilion and patient tower in 2004. The strategy focused on improving its aging infrastructure, updating its 60-year-old hospital with new rooms settings, and addressing projected increased demand for emergency services, imaging, and diagnostic services.
“Hospitals are losing inpatient volume” says Jerry Price, senior vice president of construction at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
