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Upcoming Workshop to Explore Emergency Department Innovations and Facility-Based Solutions

Date: June 19-20, 2014

Location: American Institute of Architects
130 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94104

$695.00

Workshop Agenda

The Emergency Department - Considerations for Innovation & Strategic Design workshop, taught by nationally recognized experts, offers a review of design methodologies and benchmark challenges inherent in today’s emergency departments.  Attendees will learn how to quantify and measure those challenges and explore innovations, processes and facility-based solutions. Join us and obtain insight into optimal patient flow, researched- based process, design interventions and strategies that improve clinical outcomes, quality of care, and patient safety and satisfaction.

We would like to thank our workshop sponsors:
 

Join Us in Boston for a Networking Reception
& Educational Session 

You are invited to come, meet and connect with CHD Affiliate members and the regional healthcare design community at the Healthcare Facility Design Professional Networking event in Boston. 

Wednesday, June 25, 2014
4:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Red Thread Showroom
22 Boston Wharf Road
Boston, MA 02210

An educational session, worth one EDAC/AIA CEU titled: "Healthcare Acoustics--New Guidelines for Better Outcomes and Experiences" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. by an esteemed panel of experts who led the development of the new 2014 Facility Guidelines. Learn of several award-winning New England case studies that served as "beta-tests" for the development of the new national Guidelines acoustics criteria; Partners-MGH's new Lunder Building and Baystate Health's - Baystate Medical Center Hospital of the Future Mass Mutual Wing.

This event is FREE to CHD Affiliate Members, Sponsors and Sponsor Guests - please RSVP here.

Other professionals can attend for a small donation of $40.

More information including learning objectives can be found here.

We would like to thank our sponsors:

IN THE KNOW

Meet the 2014 Changemaker Award Recipient

Avein Saaty-Tafoya, MD, MBA, HCM, EDAC, Chief Executive Officer, Adelante Healthcare, has been named the 2014 Changemaker by The Center for Health Design's Board of Directors.  Given annually, the award honors individuals or organizations that have demonstrated exceptional ability to change the way healthcare facilities are designed and built, and whose work has broad impact on the advancement of healthcare design.

As the CEO of Adelante Healthcare, a Federally Qualified Community Health Center with seven sites, Avein has overseen delivery of comprehensive primary care services to 40,000 patients in Phoenix and surrounding communities in Maricopa County, AZ since 2006.

Avein is an inspirational leader who has worked with Community Health Centers, Primary Care Associations, Hospitals and Health Plans in various capacities since 1996. Advocating for healthcare equality and access to care in the health center movement has allowed her an opportunity to apply her education in fine art, medicine, public health and business administration in order to make a meaningful difference.

"There are so many remarkable things about Avein”, stated Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal, Perkins+Will, and a member of the award selection committee, “including the way she has demonstrated that federally qualified health centers can aggressively pursue affordable, sustainable building and resource stewardship goals.”

Jain Malkin, CID, AAHID, EDAC, also an award selection committee member, went on to note, “Avein's dedication to clinical excellence is matched only by her passion for the aesthetics and functional aspects of the built environment. She views space planning as a strategic initiative to support care delivery innovation. Her approach to improving the health of the community includes offering on-site farmers market days and cooking classes focused on nutritious, local food. In addition, she has established the first LEED Platinum certified health center in the nation. She ensures sustainability statistics are presented to the community at large in an artistic manner to raise awareness of these issues. And, despite budget challenges, Avein's appreciation of art has forged close relationships with artists leading to the inclusion of original works of art throughout her facilities."

Avein will officially accept the Changemaker Award and be the keynote speaker on Monday, November 17, 2014 at the Healthcare Design Conference, in San Diego, CA.

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