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Concord, CA – Cynthia McCullough, MSN, EDAC, has been named as the 2020 Changemaker Award recipient by The Center for Health Design’s Board of Directors. Celebrated annually at Healthcare Design Expo & Conference, the award honors individuals or organizations that have demonstrated the exceptional ability to change the way healthcare facilities are designed and built, and whose work has had broad impact on the advancement of healthcare design.
Cyndi’s journey from nurse manager of a transplant and urology/nephrology unit to a senior clinical planner for a global healthcare design firm is long and storied, includes three million miles and spans more than 30 years. In that time, she has helped improve patient outcomes and staff efficiency in healthcare facilities in all corners of the world. She’s braved extreme temperatures to work with the native Inupiat people to help realize their vision for a new critical access hospital 340 miles north of the Arctic Circle. And, she’s experienced being the only woman in the room battling long-held cultural norms in the Middle East to earn immense respect for her ability to infuse evidence-based design and clinical efficiency standards into healthcare facilities. She’s as much at home leading a team reviewing the entire healthcare delivery system for the Island of Trinidad as she is working with deep empathy to ensure that a NICU provides compassionate care for families navigating uncertainty and fear.
Holding evidence-based design and Lean healthcare certifications, Cyndi works to maximize value, eliminate waste, and provide a path for continuous improvement while enhancing safety and quality of care. As a clinician and planner, she helps clients understand the impact of strategic, operational and technology planning to help determine space needs in healthcare facilities. Working closely with designers throughout programming, schematics and design development, she helps to create efficient and effective environments.
Cyndi was her firms active and early proponent for evidence-based design in the Healthcare Research & Development Institute, which includes top CEOs from the nation’s leading healthcare organizations. Having authored numerous articles, two books, and contributing content to seven others, she embraces every opportunity to write and speak to spread the word about evidence-based design and regularly presents her knowledge at universities, conferences, podcasts and webinars.
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