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Get the latest trends, tools, and resources for improving healthcare environments here. Browse our many free and members-only resources, including research reports and issue briefs, interviews, case studies, design strategies, lessons learned, key point summaries, and webinars.
    Webinar

    Residential Design for Health and Longevity
    June 2020 ∘ Webinar ∘
    Imagine your home as a place for regeneration and a sanctuary for healing the wounds of the outside world.  It is clean, not cluttered and unmanageable.  It prevents disease and injury and restores you when the inevitable occurs.  It regenerates you on a daily basis, supporting good sleep, encouraging exercise, and making it fun to do healthy cooking.   That’s a lot to ask of a house, but it can be done.  Award winning interior designer, Cynthia Leibrock, presents “Design Details for Health” (the title of her lastest book).  Take a virtual one-hour tour of the designer’s home which has been featured on the cover of The New York Times. 
    Project Brief

    Design Solutions to Improve Healthcare Access and Outcomes - Kaiser Permanente Antelope Valley Medical Offices
    March 2017 ∘ Project Brief ∘
    Learn about: how innovative design can be achieved at the same or similar cost, how design can result in a well-regarded community landmark, and how community-based care improves patient use and compliance with regimens.
    Project Brief

    High Impact Design Solutions to Improve Healthcare Access and Outcomes - Clinica Family Health People's Medical Clinic
    March 2017 ∘ Project Brief ∘
    Learn about: how facility design facilitates population health goals for a community health clinic, how pod-based layout promotes staff interaction, collaboration, and efficiency, and how the ‘group visit’ room supports patient engagement, education, and continuity of care.
    Blog

    Building Today for a Healthy Tomorrow

    August 2016 ∘ Blog ∘
    You know the old saying “It takes a village to raise a child”? For Florida Hospital in Orlando, it also takes a village to promote a healthier way of living.
    Blog

    What is Population Health, Anyway?

    August 2016 ∘ Blog ∘
    “So, what is population health, anyway?” is a question I hear often—and the answers that follow really run the gamut. There is already a wide range of interpretations of what population health really means, and how it plays out in the real world.
    Blog

    Population Health Stretches the Boundaries of Healthcare

    September 2016 ∘ Blog ∘
    What’s your design inspiration? Lately, I’ve heard several healthcare designers say that they’re focused on the concept of “population health” and the opportunity it offers to create meaningful change. While designing for the health of a community is not a novel idea, taking a broader perspective to move healthcare design strategies beyond the hospital setting and into the community has been exploding in popularity over the last few years. Creating Supportive Environments 
    Tool

    Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool

    December 2015 ∘ Tool ∘
    This Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool (ACCDT), developed by Dr. Anjali Joseph and Dr. Zahra Zamani from Clemson University in collaboration with The Center for Health Design (CHD), builds upon a series of papers, best practice case studies and in-depth literature reviews conducted by CHD as well as CHD's Clinic Design Post-Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit – Tool 2 Audit of Physical Environment with additions from a thesis by Crews (2013). The tool supports design teams in making key design decisions about ambulatory care centers linked to evidence based design goals and principles.
    Tool

    My Safety Net Clinic
    March 2011 ∘ Tool ∘
    Overview

    My Safety Net Clinic (MySNC) was developed by Dr. Larry Mallak and Wasif Butt of Western Michigan University in 2011. MySNC was funded by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, in conjunction with The Center for Health Design.  
    EDAC Advocate Firm Project

    Janesville Medical Campus – St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital and Dean Clinic Janesville East, Janesville, WI
    September 2012 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
    The goal for this project was to create a warm, inviting, calm and patient-centered environment for patients and staff.
    EDAC Advocate Firm Project

    Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, San Francisco, CA

    September 2010 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
    The goal for this project was to identify built “centers of excellence” that best represent evidence-based design (EBD) and eco-effective design (EED) innovations.