This Affiliate Connections Call features Heather B. Livingston and Rebecca Lewis presenting "That Will Never Happen Here...How the FGI Emergency Conditions White Paper Helps Facilities Plan For and Respond to Emergencies."
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In April 2020, the Facility Guidelines Institute’s (FGI) Board of Directors convened the 130-person Emergency Conditions Committee (ECC), an all-volunteer body of subject matter experts tasked with writing a comprehensive white paper and new guideline requirements to help health and residential care organizations plan for a breadth of emergency events.
Though the ECC was created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting white paper addresses design and operational considerations for various emergencies that are local (e.g., flood, train derailment, mass shooter), regional (e.g., tsunami, earthquake, hurricane) and international (e.g., pandemics and other public health emergencies) in scale.
FGI’s Guidance for Designing Health and Residential Care Facilities that Respond and Adapt to Emergency Conditions provides recommendations on an array of design and operational considerations and includes proposed changes to the Guidelines documents in eight topic areas: resiliency, surge considerations, rural and/or small health care facilities, residential care settings, renovations and future facilities, safety risk assessments, and alternate care sites and modular construction.
This session will provide an overview of the white paper and discuss next steps to publish the new Guidelines for Emergency Conditions in Health and Residential Care Facilities, scheduled for release in early 2022.
Heather B. Livingston
Director of Operations
FGI
Heather is the director of operations for the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) and managing editor of the 2022 edition of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of hospitals, outpatient facilities, and residential health, care, and support facilities. Heather served as consulting editor for FGI from 2011 through 2016 and was a freelance writer from 2006 through 2016. Prior to that, she was an associate editor for the American Institute of Architects and director of the Business Week/Architectural Record awards program. Her work has appeared in This Old House, Cadalyst, Architectural Record, Medical Construction & Design, AIArchitect, and other publications.
Rebecca Lewis, NCARB, FAIA, CID-MN, FACHA
Principal Architect/Director of Healthcare Design
DSGW Architects
A national expert in healthcare architecture, gerontology, codes and standards and guidelines for healthcare architecture, Rebecca’s depth of knowledge in the field of healing communities is motivated by her pursuit to create environments that reflect these ideas. On a national level, Rebecca plays a leadership role speaking throughout the country to professionals about new architectural approaches that improve the experience of patients and staff. She is a member of the Facilities Guidelines Institute Health Guidelines Revision Committee and 2022 Steering Committee as well as the FGI Emergency Conditions Committee. Her experience working with small rural hospitals and healthcare providers has made her a much-needed voice in the national arena.