A consultant to The Center for Health Design (CHD), Donna directs the continual development and growth of our Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) program. Her strategic oversight and industry experience helped propel EDAC to become widely accepted by top architectural firms throughout the country, and worldwide. She also directs our recently launched Built Environment Network program.
Donna has more than three decades of healthcare leadership experience, including executive roles with Kaiser Permanente (KP). She contributed to the Global Health and Safety initiative, which launched an open source website and database holding organizational design specifications correlated to outcomes and research, now known as CHD’s RIPPLE database. For the national KP Health Connect project, she helped lead the implementation of one of the largest and most complex technical installations of software in the healthcare industry.
Donna has her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Northern Colorado, and master's degree in public and health administration from University of Colorado.
