Audio/Web Conferences

In early 2005, the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) presented two audio/web conferences that featured The Center for Health Design's work.  Both are described below. To order an audio CD of either program, click here.  

A Business Case for Better Healthcare Facilities

The one-time incremental costs of designing and constructing optimal healthcare facilities can be quickly repaid through operational savings and increased revenue. This program presents evidence of such savings collected by The Center for Health Design in a three-year research project, the Pebble Project, in which healthcare organizations evaluated their new facilities. Examples of project designs are presented to illustrate how facility preplanning influences the resulting organizational structures and care delivery systems.

Speakers: D. Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, FACHA, Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University and Founding Principal, WHR Architects, Houston, TX; Derek Parker, FAIA, RIBA, FACHA, Director, Anshen + Allen Architects, San Francisco, CA.

Evidence-Based Design: Pebble Project Interviews

This program features the insight of three executives who are involved in The Center for Health Design's Pebble Project, in which healthcare organizations use different approaches to evidence-based design. The speakers shared how they are approaching or have approached evidence-based design with their new healthcare facilities and the financial and operational results to date.

Naomi Caldwell discusses how her visits to innovative new hospital facilities affected decisions her organization made to design a $280 million 325-bed replacement hospital. Connie Harmsen, CHE, discusses the planning process behind Banner Estrella Medical Center's new (non-replacement), green 172-bed hospital completed in January 2005. Frank Sardone shares how the organizational culture and care delivery systems at Bronson Methodist Hospital, a 348-bed regional healthcare center, were affected by facility design.

To order an audio CD of either program, click here.