1 unit EDAC continuing education
1 unit AIA continuing education**
IDCEC credit also available**
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This webinar explores the challenges of durable coated fabrics in today’s acute healthcare settings. A current nationwide poll of credentialed healthcare interior designers has confirmed widespread failure of durable coated fabric upholsteries, a costly overlook of product warranties, and negative effect of these failures on our HCAHPS scores. There is a further negative effect on the business case when we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars reupholstering existing furniture, diverting money that cannot then be spent on new equipment, hiring quality staff, or funding research into diagnostic and treatment breakthroughs.
Join this panel of healthcare industry experts who will share new information about material selection from ongoing durability tests of heavy-duty commercial healthcare-rated fabrics in both laboratory and real-world environments. Learn about innovative new cleaning and disinfecting protocols to achieve cleaner healthcare environments. This panel is committed to working together to address this mutual challenge, recognizing the ability of a multidisciplinary team of industry partners with shared purpose to creatively solve these problems. They’ll share their findings with the larger healthcare community and provide a furniture specification guide and a process for sharing field reports on the state of durable coated fabrics in healthcare.
*This webinar is possible through partnership with the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers.
Teri Lura Bennett, RN, CHID, CID, IIDA, EDAC, Lead Interior Designer, Johns Hopkins Health System
Teri Lura Bennett is lead Interior Designer at Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS) since 1993, responsible for establishing and maintaining Hopkins brand identity. Her focus is specifying finishes and furnishings, and maintaining comprehensive databases while collaborating with clinical staff, consultants, project managers, procurement, maintenance, safety, and environmental services to provide the best built healthcare environment. Her previous career as a critical care registered nurse is invaluable in working with our clinical staff to support their important work of delivering quality patient care.
Shari Solomon, Esq., President, CleanHealth Environmental LLC
CleanHealth provides infection prevention, industrial hygiene training, consulting services for healthcare personnel, facility operations engineers, contractors, suppliers and vendors. An attorney with 17 years of experience in industrial hygiene, she understands liability prevention techniques, offering practical and valuable risk management solutions. She conducts indoor air quality and infection control services, operation and maintenance program development, infection control evaluations, environmental services audits, and indoor air quality assessments. She is a Designated Trainer under the Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician Program from The Association for the Healthcare Environment of the American Hospital Association.
Barbara Dellinger, MA, FIIDA, CHID, CID, EDAC, NCIDQ, Director, Design, Research, Adventist HealthCare
As a healthcare interior designer for over 35 years, Barbara Dellinger has provided planning and design for projects ranging from small clinics to huge 1M+ sq. ft., $1B military hospitals. Focusing on the patient experience, she uses Evidence-based design to view design through the patient’s eyes. Currently Director of Design and Research for Adventist Healthcare, MD she has developed interior design standards for acute care, rehab, behavioral health, and outpatient clinics. Co-chair of the Center for Healthcare Design’s EDAC committee, a founding member of AAHID, and an IIDA Fellow.
Linda Gabel, CHID, IIDA, Interior Designer/Planner, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Linda Gabel brings 34 years of acute care healthcare design experience to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. As an in-house design and planning leader, she promotes evidence-based design methodology and research with design consultants, administrators, and clinicians on small and large scale projects, with a primary focus on The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. Linda has served on the board of AAHID, as IIDA Healthcare Forum Advisor, and enjoyed leadership roles at NBBJ and Karlsberger. She has presented white papers on healthcare design for pediatric, bariatric, and aging populations at Healthcare Design, Health Facilities Institute, National Association of Children’s Hospital and NEOCON.
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Many attendees of The Center for Health Design’s webinars have inquired about IDCEC approval so they can earn ASID, IIDA, and IDS CEU’s. We have looked into this and unfortunately, the cost to upload courses to IDCEC is simply too high at this time. You can still earn credit for attending our webinars by requesting a verification certificate. For further details about how to self-report CEUs to IDCEC, please CLICK HERE.
**Starting July 9, 2020, The Center for Health Design will charge a CEU management fee for AIA credits and verification certificates for all webinars and EBD Journal Clubs. Please contact Natalie Gonzalez, Project Manager, ngonzalez@healthdesign.org.