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June 2007
Recommended Reading Looking for a quick healthcare related read this summer? Take Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science to the beach with you. Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's book is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine—on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. What are you reading this summer? Recommend a book.
Announcing the new CHD Blog We're extremely excited to announce our newest project, the CHD Blog. The blog allows our staff the opportunity to express themselves around interesting, relevant topics and communicate regularly and more directly with you. We're looking forward to seeing your comments and feedback and to having conversations with you.
Sign Up For Our Webinar Series Join us for our next two webinars: July 12th - We Shape Our Buildings, Then They Kill Us: Why Healthcare Buildings Contribute to the Error Pandemic These webinars are part of a series of 16 live, interactive 60-minute webinars from HEALTHCARE DESIGN.06 and The Pebble Project research initiative—brought to you by The Center for Health Design in conjunction with Vendome Group, LLC. Sign up early and receive a 15% discount! CHD Affiliate Members receive a 30% discount and CHD Pebble Partners receive a 50% discount. For Program details, click here. Sign up for the entire (pro rated) series and receive a 30% discount! Click here for more information. Webinars from selected "Environments for Aging" presentations will start in late July.
CHD Speakers Are On The Road We continue to share research results and talk about our work at a variety of industry events. On June 12th, Roger Leib, AIA, ACHA and Jane Rohde AIA, FIIDA, ACHA, AAHID, LEED AP presented research that has been collected by CHER constituents at NeoCon in Chicago. Sara Marberry and Alberto Salvatore also presented an update on EDAC. Review the updated offerings in our Educational Consulting Program. Choose from one of the seminars/workshops listed, or call us to discuss your firm's specific needs.
Research News Order your copy of the recently completed CHD CHER Report, Limiting The Spread Of Infection in Healthcare Environments. The report is available on CD and as a downloadable PDF. CHD Pebble Partners and all Affiliates receive a 20% discount on the CD. Pebble Partners and Corporate Affiliates can download the PDF for free. Professional and Individual Affiliates receive a 20% discount on the PDF. Coming soon: The Effect of Environmental Design on Reducing Nursing and Medication Errors in Acute Care Settings Keep updated about release dates for other upcoming research reports, by clicking here.
EDAC Is Coming! Most healthcare organizations that are building new projects are now asking for evidence-based design in their requests for proposals. There are no standards that currently exist to qualify an evidence-based design practitioner, but The Center for Health Design (CHD) is changing that. We're developing a groundbreaking program that will assess professionals on their ability to implement an evidence-based design process into healthcare construction, including renovations, expansions, and replacement facilities. Find out what EDAC stands for or just learn more about the program and our progress by clicking here.
CHD Welcomes Five New Corporate Affiliates We're delighted to welcome our newest corporate affiliates:
Nominate The Next Changemaker The Changemaker award is an annual honor given by The Center's Board of Directors to an individual or organization that has demonstrated exceptional ability to make change happen in healthcare facility design. The award is presented at our annual HEALTHCAREDESIGN conference in November. Nominations are welcome. Contact Sara Marberry.
Call For Entries For Nightingale Award Sponsored by Contract in association with The Center for Health Design and the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.07 Conference, the competition recognizes and encourages design excellence in products produced for the healthcare field. Products must be new to the market since November 2006 and not entered in a previous Nightingale Awards competition. Download entry form and get more info.
News About The Center Last month we added three new staff to The Center's team: Lesley Agostino as Project Manager. Erin Zimmerman, Assistant Project Manager and Adrienne Abdin as Office Administrator. Read their bios. The Center is hiring! We are looking for a Staff Accountant to join our team at our headquarter office in Concord, California. View all current openings on our job board. Post your job listings with us.
About Us The Center for Health Design is a nonprofit 501c(3) research and advocacy organization whose mission is to transform healthcare settings into healing environments that improve outcomes through the creative use of evidence-based design. Looking for ways to support our work? Join our Community of Affiliates
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