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This webinar, led by a leading expert in security assessment, protective services, and crisis management, is designed to demonstrate the importance of security design and the considerations of safety and security during the design phase.

This one-day virtual workshop provides the latest thinking in what is driving the future of healthcare, and offers perspectives from a myriad of professions through presentations, case studies, and conversation from experts in the field. Attendees will have opportunities to pose questions to workshop faculty and interact with fellow attendees in thoughtful and meaningful ways.

This one-day virtual workshop provides the latest in design thinking for a variety of behavioral health care settings and offers state-of-the-art best practices through thought leader presentations, case studies, and panel discussions. Attendees will have opportunities to pose questions to workshop faculty and interact with fellow attendees.

As individuals age, physical, mental, and societal challenges become more prevalent. This intensive one-day virtual workshop explores those challenges and discusses programming and design interventions that can assist people (and care givers). Expert faculty will present case studies and examples that integrate architecture, design and technology into living environments that are not only safe, but foster wellness and longevity. 

This webinar will provide a brief history of the document’s inception and evolution over the years, and will explain its purpose in the context of New York State’s Office of Mental Health. Presenters will explain the various paths that products may take in their quest to be accepted into the Patient Safety Standards, including the rigorous testing protocols followed for every entry. Attendees will learn how, when and why to use the Patient Safety Standards on projects, and how to educate their own clients and colleagues on the applicability of the document.    

Presenters will also introduce the Recovery Innovations (RI) model of crisis care that focuses on warm and welcoming healing spaces as one of the catalysts that provides the opportunity for someone in crisis to determine their recovery pathway. See how the Crisis Care Center supports this model and specific areas of facility design that will support three distinct levels of care: behavioral health urgent care, crisis stabilization, and inpatient services.

A 2023 Healthcare Environment Award winner, the Renal Unit at Taranaki Base Hospital, Te Huhi Rāupo, brings a holistic shift to the care and wellbeing of dialysis patients and their whānau (family). It's a small, standalone building, packing a big climate-conscious punch and shifting the expectations of what is possible in healthcare.

Standing as a global leader in energy efficient and low carbon design, it’s the fourth building internationally to be registered for Zero Carbon certification and the first ever healthcare building set to achieve Zero Energy certification in the world - and proudly one of the first of any building typology in the Southern Hemisphere.