With no known precedent, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia pursued a vision to develop a new pediatric patient care unit: one that would meet the requirements and licensure of an acute care unit, but would provide a safe and supportive environment for patients with a comorbid developmental, behavioral, or psychiatric diagnosis. A multidisciplinary team worked together to envision, plan, and design an environment to support a new model of care for this unique population. Key elements of the project—a remodel of an existing unit—include patient, family, and staff health; circadian lighting; biophilic design; and safety.
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Natalie Miovski Hagerty is a healthcare executive at one of the top-ranked and fast-growing children’s hospitals in the United States. As a strategic and innovative leader, she navigates change with vision and integrity, leading complex real estate and development plans from strategy to implementation.
Ms. Hagerty is a registered architect and member of the American Institute of Architects. She holds certificates in real estate from the Urban Land Institute, is Six Sigma Green Belt Certified (SSGBC), is an Evidenced-based Design Accredited Professional (EDAC) and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP).
She is the Assistant Vice President of Facilities Planning, Design and Integration of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s 10-year, +2 million square feet, $3+ billion capital program to create state-of-the-art hospital, outpatient, academic, and research facilities.
Ms. Hagerty serves on the board of Professional Women in Construction, serves on the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Board Committee and is the board liaison to the Connecting Committee which is dedicated to connecting women in construction with high schools, universities and other non-profit organizations. She is also one of the founding members of the national Nursing Institute of Healthcare Design. As the co-founder of the Pediatric Environments Network (PEN), she is an international trailblazer for the development of pediatric-specific spaces geared to improve outcomes, efficiencies, and experiences.
She is mission-driven, collaborative and uses design thinking to inspire breakthrough ideas that promotes the patients, family, and staff experience.
She holds a bachelor’s in architecture from State University of New York at Buffalo, master’s graduate studies in Architecture from Mc Gill University in Montreal, Canada and a master of science in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sue Ann Barton is a principal at ZGF Architects LLP who has 37 years of professional experience in healthcare design. Her portfolio includes a wide range of work with an emphasis on the design of neonatal, pediatric, and women’s healthcare facilities. Sue Ann has a national perspective on healthcare issues and trends, and she excels at translating building programs into the most appropriate care environments for patients, families, and staff. Sue Ann has particular expertise in the application of evidence-based design principles, having worked with multiple Pebble Project® partners, including Colorado Children’s Hospital and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Research on the restorative and healing effects of nature are a particular source of inspiration for her design work.