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Comprehensive Test Methods for Products in Behavioral Health Environments at the Design in Mental Health Network

July 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will discuss some of the common challenges witnessed and used to develop the testing methods – with a focus on ligature performance and robustness.  Hear about their learnings about doors and windows which feature so highly with sentinel events that they needed their own category of testing.   Review key areas of risk within mental health environments and lessons learned about managing risk in reality.    
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Realizing the Benefits of a Human-Centered Approach in Behavioral Health
June 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar explores the strategies and cost implications of a human-centered approach to design that leverages tangible and intangible elements to strengthen staff-patient connections, facilitate innovations, and create a safer place for behavioral health care.
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Intermountain Healthcare: Planting the Seeds for Change Using Lean Principles
October 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar explores how quality healthcare is not explicitly synonymous with efficiency, but Intermountain Healthcare is determined to deliver both. Hear how the largest healthcare provider in Utah has taken its knowledge and application of Lean principles to plant the seeds to take the system to a new level.
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Eliminate Waiting Room Time and Increase Exam Room Utilization

May 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
In this webinar, you will learn about an innovative clinic design and care-delivery model, as well as the real-time locating system (RTLS) technology that supports it. Yet how do you design a clinic and its workflow without a waiting room, where exam rooms are always free for the next patient, where patients make their own way through the halls, and where providers and staff easily know where to go next?
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Safety Risk Assessment 2.0
January 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar introduces the new, easier to use, online interface for The Center’s Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) toolkit, a proactive and systematic approach to designing and renovating healthcare facilities for safety. Originally developed through research and consensus to support the requirements of the FGI Guidelines, The Center's research team will walk you through the why, what, and how of each part of the online SRA toolkit illustrating features with vignettes gathered from the testing process.  
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love My Robot Doctor
October 2017 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar highlights the macro factors shaping these realities, along with an in-depth exploration of the various impacts of and opportunities for design. Remember doctor’s visits when you were growing up? The wooden tongue depressor. The well-worn stethoscope. As design harnesses digital, materials, and networking technologies, a very new health experience is just over the horizon. Proactive, lifestyle design, tracking real-time health data, non-invasive tools and custom “just for you” treatments based on your actual genome, are here. 
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Analysis and Simulation: Improving Team-Based Primary Care Design
October 2017 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will summarize the newest research evidence about how design can improve the delivery of team-based ambulatory care, discusses new metrics being delivered jointly between the Military Health System and Georgia Tech, and discusses how to design for a system with a wide spectrum of purpose-designed healthcare buildings and retrofits of older medical facilities.
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The Highly Reliable Hospital: Creating a Facility for a Highly Reliable Organization

August 2017 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will illustrate how the Sharp team created the new Ocean View Tower, a 170,000-square-foot, 138-bed hospital addition, to go beyond just good practice to a “hardwire the environment” scenario for zero harm to patients, visitors, and staff. The presenters describe the planning, design, and construction from each of their perspectives and share outcomes and critical lessons learned. 
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The Application of Color in Healthcare Setting
March 2013 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar explores how to: become familiar with research that goes beyond the subjective evaluation of color, learn how lighting and color work together to enhance or create disharmony in the healthcare setting, gain confidence in applying color and see “best practice” examples of new projects, and learn about the aging eye and how this can impact safety.