Mission Statement:
Can the design of healthcare environments help heal the patient? Can it elevate a patient’s spirit? Improve the quality of their care? Or lower provider costs? YES!
Healing Design by Huelat Davis is the transformative approach to the architecture and interior design of healing environments. As with medicine, Healing Design has always been evidence-based. It is a holistic and patient-centered approach that relies on the latest research, observations and focus groups to ensure every healthcare environment that we create actually has the power to heal the mind, body and spirit.
Who We Are:
Since our founding in 1991, Huelat Davis has been at vanguard of the patient-centered movement. As a Planetree Visionary Design Network firm, we are internationally recognized for the design of healing environments that improve patient outcomes and deliver greater value for providers.
Barbara J. Huelat, AAHID, EDAC, FASID, IIDA - Design Principal at Huelat Davis, is one of the field’s preeminent experts in the design of healthcare environments. Her life’s work has been to prove design can impact human outcomes. She has helped more than 500 healthcare organizations create functional, cost-effective, healing and “experiential” environments. Barbara is a founding board member of the Center for Healthcare Design, National President of the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers, and author of two nationally acclaimed books — “Healing Environments: What’s the Proof?” and “Healing Environments for Mind, Body and Spirit.”
In addition Huelat Davis have strategically partnered with Denver based Davis Partnership Architects offering a greater comprehensive range of services to better serve our respected clients including a depth of Architectural, Landscape Architectural, Planning, Interior Design and Environmental Design Services.
Huelat Davis is a registered Women Owned Small Business.
Research and Participation:
The Center for Health Design - Barbara has been an active board member from 1988-1994. Position activities included the initial development of Evidence-Based Design through design research as sponsored through the work of the CHD.
Environmental Standards Committee - Barbara has been active members of the Environmental Standards Committee, a subsidiary of The Center for Health Design from 1991 — present. This committee has addressed many aspects of Evidence Based Design. The most significant contribution has been the Chapter 1.2 Environment of Care, AIA Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities 2006.
Pebble Projects Presenter - Barbara has been an invited guest and speaker at Pebble Project Meeting, Orlando, FL., March 2005. This presentation addressed the evidence and practical applications of Healing Environments — Design for the Body, Mind and Spirit. Barbara Huelat has been a presenter for the Center’s tour of speaking engagements — “The Business Case for Better Buildings”. This was presented in cities around the country presenting the results of “Pebble” Research. This tour was sponsored by Turner Construction and The Center for Health Design.
Pebble Project Team - Barbara was on the design team for an active Pebble Project. The project is ER One of the ER One Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC. This project will study the risk of material and finish in bacteria mitigation within the Emergency Room Environments. Other components of the research will include the human factor in crowd control, Biophilia and stress reduction of staff. We are currently working with the researcher Craig Zimring, PhD, Anjali Joseph, Director of Research and Georgetown School of Medicine researchers. Other current research with the ER One project includes “Acoustics in the Emergency Department and Nurse Station Design for the Emergency Department.”