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Podcast

The Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 Podcast Episode 53: Part 1, Barbara Dellinger, MA, FIIDA, CHID, CID, EDAC, NCIDQ, Director of Design and Research, Adventist HealthCare
March 2022 ∘ Podcast

What is the “new reality” in healthcare that has arisen due to the pandemic and how has it affected the healthcare design and architecture professions?
Product / Project Innovation Highlights

Viconic Safety Flooring
March 2022 ∘ Product / Project Innovation Highlights

Viconic Safety FlooringTM demonstrates the ability to greatly reduce the risk of fall-related hip fracture and traumatic brain injury in older adults. The ADA-compliant system supports mobility while enhancing comfort under foot.
Member Project

Penn Medicine Radnor
March 2022 ∘ Member Project

Penn Medicine Radnor, designed by Ballinger, transforms a derelict suburban office park into a community-focused, sustainable, mixed-use development rooted in nature. The 250,000 SF ambulatory care center is designed for regeneration of both the site and human health. The building and its attached garage form a U-shape around a courtyard, integrating it into the surrounding landscape and blurring the distinction between indoors and outdoors.
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Webinar

Designing for Health in HDR’s New Corporate Headquarters: From Planning through Evaluation
February 2022 ∘ Webinar

Hear the story of HDR’s new headquarters (HQ) and its role in the development of a vibrant and resilient mixed-used community in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Originally a horse-racing track with expansive surface parking, the new development creates diverse opportunities for social engagement, healthy living, eating and shopping, and outdoor activities.
Webinar

Upside Down and Inside Out – Understanding the Grab Bar Research that Led to Revised Codes
February 2022 ∘ Webinar

It reflects the coordinated and on-going efforts of a team of individuals to advance it from its initial stage -- as an AIA Design for Aging Knowledge Community white paper to push for revisions to the Americans’ with Disabilities Act – to a two-phase, comparative analysis study of elders living in nursing homes, and then to efforts to get the results included in revised codes and guidelines.  
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Webinar

How to Extend Fabric & Surface Life: Selection Specifications & Cleaning Strategies
February 2022 ∘ Webinar

This webinar will provide tools and resources and direction to current research, field tests, and survey results to explore performance metrics. Presenters will explore the various causes of material performance failures throughout the built environment, and provide new information on breakthroughs in cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting.   
EBD Journal Club

Emergency Physicians’ Workstation Design: An Observational Study of Interruptions and Perception of Collaboration During Shift-End Handoffs
February 2022 ∘ EBD Journal Club

Joshi, R., Joseph, A., Ossmann, M., Taaffe, K., Pirrallo, R., Allison, D., Perino, L.C. (2021). Health Environments Research & Design Journal. DOI: 10.1177/19375867211001379.
Podcast

The Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 Podcast EPISODE 52: Part 2, Dame Laura Lee, DBE, Chief Executive of Maggie's – Everyone’s Home of Cancer Care
February 2022 ∘ Podcast

On Part 2 of today’s episode with Dame Laura Lee, DBE, Chief Executive of Maggie's –Everyone’s Home for Cancer Care, Laura shares details of the special gardens at Maggie’s, and how thoughtfully they are designed to nourish every visitor, supporting both optimistic and challengi
Podcast

The Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 Podcast EPISODE 52: Part 1, Dame Laura Lee, DBE, Chief Executive of Maggie's – Everyone’s Home of Cancer Care
February 2022 ∘ Podcast

What happened in 1995 when a 30 year old Clinical Oncology Nurse Specialist at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland gave chemotherapy to her breast cancer patient named Maggie Keswick Jencks?
Slidecast

Evaluation of an in-hospital recreation room for hospitalised children and their families
February 2022 ∘ Slidecast

Kelada, L., Wakefield, C. E., De Graves, S., Treadgold, C., Dumlao, G., Schaffer, M., O'Brien, T., (2021) Evaluation of an in-hospital recreation room for hospitalised children and their families. Journal of Pediatric Nursing

The play room in this pediatric hospital is the great escape. Let’s use this research and design an escape to get in, not get out.