Workshop Agenda
Overview of Lean/Evidence-Based Design/Ice Breaker
Integration of Lean & EBD in Predesign and Programming
Work Groups – Predesign and Programming
Integration of Lean and EBD into Design and Implementation
Work Groups – Design and Implementation (Lean and EBD tools)
Key Takeaways
Project Examples
Evaluation
Experts
Donna Deckard, a consultant to The Center for Health Design, directs the continual development and growth of the Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) program. Her strategic oversight and industry experience helped propel EDAC to become widely accepted by top architectural firms throughout the country, and worldwide. She also directs and facilitates the Built Environment Network program. Donna has more than three decades of healthcare leadership experience, including executive roles with Kaiser Permanente (KP). She was a key leader on the team responsible for one of the largest and most complex installations of software in the industry and co-authored the chapter on "implementation" in the book “Connected for Health.”
Today, Donna is joined by three members of The Center for Health Design’s Built Environment Network, a collegial network of executives and industry leaders who participate in strategic discussions to help set the direction for the future of the built environment.
Fernanda Pires is a healthcare planner with over 25 years of experience in healthcare design who is EDAC and Green Belt Lean Certified for Facility Design.
As Director of Healthcare Planning, Fernanda’s passion lies in listening to and learning from her clients’ experiences to create innovative and beautiful spaces which facilitate process and flow in response to each unique client’s culture. Fernanda believes Evidence-Based Design, Research and Lean complement each other in identifying challenges in current processes and providing clear and easy-to-use tools to address them. Used together, these strategies promote staff engagement resulting in the buy-in necessary in healthcare facilities design. Lean allows staff to fully understand the delivery process and have ownership of the changes necessary to improve it.
What excites Fernanda most about Evidence-Based Design is the knowledge that research is not to be used as a prescription, but as a catalyst for innovation that meets each client’s vision while providing tools to measure results and inform new, innovative solutions. Improved patient and staff satisfaction and outcomes are a natural result. Fernanda believes in projects where team members each have a voice and work in a collaborative manner. In her role, she is challenged to look at the project from a high level to the small details, bridging the gap between consultants, designers and contractors while always focusing on the client’s vision. She also believes in having fun in the process.
Andrea Sponsel is the Process Improvement Strategies Leader and Vice President at HKS. She began her lean journey a decade ago, and was immediately immersed in the philosophy of improving what we do every day, and eliminating waste to create value. Since then, her passion has been teaching the technical side and people side of change to others at HKS, promoting a more inclusive and efficient delivery of design. She is also part of the Core Group for the LCI Central Indiana CoP.
Terri Zborowsky is a nurse and design researcher at HGA, multidisciplinary design firm rooted in architecture and engineering. From where she sits, she believes post pandemic, we will never look at staff spaces the same again. On issues ranging from keeping staff safe from workplace injuries (and even death in the case of COVID-19 infection), to staff respite and break areas, the voice of frontline staff will now, and forever be, at the table, helping to make design decisions.