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29: Sara Marberry Apr 10, 2020

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Sara Marberry, EDAC, Healthcare Design Expert, Marketing Consultant, and writer on the short-and long-term effects of the current crisis on the healthcare design industry. Sara shares, "A halt on projects in the short term is not necessarily a bad thing. I think this will bring more renovation projects to make them safer to attract new residents in senior care facilities, for example." This and how Sara's career path changed at age 25 when she met Wayne Ruga at the San Francisco Furniture Mart on today's episode of the Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 podcast!

Sara Marberry has been a healthcare design expert, writer, speaker, and marketing consultant for the past 30 years. Her industry involvement is wide and deep, including board positions with The Center for Health Design and the Symposium on Healthcare Design. In 1993, Sara and her colleagues formed the nonprofit Center for Health Design, which has been instrumental in advancing the idea that the design of the physical environment affects patient outcomes.

Sara has written 4 books on healthcare design including:

Power of Color
Innovations in Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design
Improving Healthcare With Better Building Design

Aside from her client work with Sara Marberry LLC, Sara has worked with organizations on the front lines of healthcare, like the Joint Commission and Healing Healthcare Systems. She has done website projects with the Facility Guidelines Institute and the American Academy of Healthcare Designers.

Sara regularly blogs on current events and topics related to healthcare design and senior living design at https://www.saramarberry.com/.

This program is brought to you by Porcelanosa who extend their heartfelt appreciation for your support of this podcast. Stay safe and be well. To learn more about Porcelanosa, visit http://porcelanosa.com.

Thank you to our industry partner, The Center for Health Design. To learn more about CHD's new program MakingRoom, Connecting hotels and hospitals with urgent needs for space, please visit, https://www.healthdesign.org/makingroom.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how to become a Certified Healthcare Interior Designer® by visiting the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers at: https://aahid.org/.

Connect to a community interested in supporting clinician involvement in design and construction of the built environment by visiting The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design at https://www.nursingihd.com/

Thank you for listening to today's episode of Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 - The Lightning Round. If you enjoyed any part of this show, please help our podcast grow by spreading the good word on social media, and to your online community. Stay safe and be well! For the full roster of shows, visit http://healthcareidpodcast.com.

28, Part 1, Rebecca Donner, IIDA, NCIDQ, Founder and Principal of Inner Design Studio Feb 29, 2020

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In part of today's episode Cheryl speaks with Rebecca Donner, IIDA, NCIDQ, Founder and Principal of Inner Design Studio. They discuss the rise of a new and unique challenge in the design community, stemming from HGTV's popular shows like Fixer Uppers. As Rebecca shares, "The University's drop-out rates have increased in the design community in the United States at an alarming rate. Interior design students are leaving their design programs around their second year, stating this is not what design looks like on television." This and more on the changing face of healthcare design from this passionate 30-year healthcare design veteran.

'Show-Me State' native Rebecca Donner made her way to Nashville to earn an interior design degree at O'More College of Design. After graduating and completing challenging internship work, she found her calling in commercial healthcare interior design work. In 1993 this led her to found an interior design firm that specializes in health care design. Inner Design Studio began with one client and one employee. Today the 12 person firm handles numerous projects a year. Nashville's leading healthcare interior design firm, Inner Design Studio is a strong team of experienced designers who have completed more than 891 medical facilities throughout the country.

Rebecca has published articles in Healthcare Design Magazine, Medical Construction & Design Magazine, Floor Focus Magazine and Health Facilities Management Magazine.

In 2018, Rebecca was the recipient of the second annual International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Tennessee Chapter Legend Award.

Learn more about Rebecca Donner and Inner Design Studio by visiting http://innerdesignstudio.com. Learn more about Women In Healthcare by visiting: http://womeninhealthcare.org.

In part one of Cheryl's conversation today with Rebecca Donner, you will learn:

Why have HGTV's popular shows like Fixer Uppers created a new and unique challenge in the design community?
Why interior design students in the United States are dropping out of school at an alarming rate, and what to do about it.
What is the ACE high school mentor program?
Rebecca's advice to interior design students who want to specialize in healthcare, but are afraid to do so.
How can design create positive distractions for kids in distress?
What are the treehouses at Lutheran's Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana and how do they create an exceptional positive distraction for kids? How did Rebecca and her team come up with the idea?
How have materials played a key role in creating comfortable and nurturing healthcare environments and how has this changed over the years?
How Rebeca and her team stay positive when working on oftentimes large and sometimes challenging projects.
What are patient boards in the patient room, how do they contribute to a heightened sense of calm among patients and families, and why are they becoming more popular?

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how The Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

Connect to a community interested in supporting clinician involvement in design and construction of the built environment by visiting The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design at https://www.nursingihd.com/.

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28, Part 2, Rebecca Donner, IIDA, NCIDQ, Founder and Principal of Inner Design Studio Feb 29, 2020

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In the second half of Cheryl's conversation with Rebecca Donner, they discuss The Women in Healthcare Initiative which began in Washington DC about two years ago, to elevate the professional development of women in healthcare -- both the providers and the businesses that support the providers. "The networking and the mentorship, and simply the acceleration of careers provided by the membership has been outstanding," shares Rebecca. "We were stunned when we found out there wasn't a membership chapter in Nashville, so we started one." This and more on the changing face of healthcare design from this passionate 30-year healthcare design veteran.

'Show-Me State' native Rebecca Donner made her way to Nashville to earn an interior design degree at O'More College of Design. After graduating and completing challenging internship work, she found her calling in commercial healthcare interior design work. In 1993 this led her to found an interior design firm that specializes in health care design. Inner Design Studio began with one client and one employee. Today the 12 person firm handles numerous projects a year. Nashville's leading healthcare interior design firm, Inner Design Studio is a strong team of experienced designers who have completed more than 891 medical facilities throughout the country.

Rebecca has published articles in Healthcare Design Magazine, Medical Construction & Design Magazine, Floor Focus Magazine and Health Facilities Management Magazine.

In 2018, Rebecca was the recipient of the second annual International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Tennessee Chapter Legend Award.

Learn more about Rebecca Donner and Inner Design Studio by visiting http://innerdesignstudio.com. Learn more about Women In Healthcare by visiting: http://womeninhealthcare.org.

In part two of Cheryl's conversation today with Rebecca Donner, you will learn:

What is the Women in Healthcare Initiative and how can other women in the healthcare industry participate?
With 900 projects in 26 years, what is Rebecca's favorite project and why?
Why construction in California takes so much longer than in other states.
The pushback in the early days of hospitality-influenced hospital design.
How did Rebecca find her way into healthcare design work?
The benefits of having a smaller team.
How hospitals can raise HCAPS based on the design of the environment.
Why janitorial services are at the top of the list of what needs to change in healthcare.
Design trends for 2020 and beyond.
Acoustical privacy and its growing importance in the hospital setting.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how The Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

Thank you for listening to today's episode of Healthcare Interior Design 2.0! If you enjoyed any part of my conversation with Rebecca Donner, please help our podcast grow by spreading the good word on social media, with friends and family, or in the real world at work, during a meeting or over your favorite cup of coffee. For the full roster of shows, visit http://healthcareidpodcast.com.

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27: Victoria Navarro Feb 08, 2020

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Victoria Navarro, MBA, HCM and Regional Director in the Planning, Design and Construction Department at Advocate Aurora Health on failure and setbacks. "A lot of things I've learned from failures or setbacks has really shaped my thinking to persevere and continue to find ways to problem solve," Victoria shares. "I love the saying, 'In order to blaze a trail, you mustn't be afraid to fail.'" This and what the hospital space will look like in the year 2020 from Victoria Navaro's perspective on today's episode of Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 - The Lightning Round.

Victoria started her professional career in the planning, design and construction of health care facilities. Over the past 20 years, she has served as senior healthcare planner for national architectural firms and has delivered over $1 billion in forward focused capital projects, leading teams to analyze and solve complex challenges.

Victoria is the Founder and Co-Chairperson of the Lean Construction Institute Milwaukee Community of Practice, an Editorial Advisory Board Member for Healthcare Design Magazine and a 2019 recipient of the MVP Leader Award for Advocate Aurora Health. She was awarded the Bob Krier Award - given by both the Chicago and Milwaukee Lean Construction Institute Community of Practice, for leadership in advancing the industry using Lean Design and Construction.

Advocate Aurora is the 9th largest integrated not-for-profit health system in the United States, serving communities in both Illinois and Wisconsin. To learn more about Victoria Navarro and Advocate Aurora Health, visit: https://www.advocateaurorahealth.org/

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Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how the Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

Thanks for listening to today's episode of Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 - The Lightning Round! If you enjoyed any part of this show, please help our podcast grow by spreading the good word on social media, to friends and family, or in the real world at work, during a meeting or over your favorite cup of coffee. For the full roster of shows, visit http://healthcareidpodcast.com.

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26: Monika Smith Jan 24, 2020

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Monika Smith, Design Director at Apex Design Build, on what no one is talking about in a healthcare project that they should be talking about. Monika shares, "When many of the doctors we serve in private practice decide to build their own practices, they often don't ask themselves the question, 'How will my practice stand out in the marketplace?'" That and more on what's right with healthcare design, what the industry will look like in the year 2040, and one story about what happened when a father/daughter physician team moved offices. Learn more about Monika Smith and Apex Design Build by visiting https://apexdesignbuild.net. This podcast is brought to you by the award-winning, eco-conscious Porcelanosa -- a global innovator in tile, kitchen and bath products. Here's something I bet you didn't know about Porcelanosa's wood-look ceramic tile: It looks astonishingly real! Here's why: In order to get as close to a hard wood look and feel as possible, they digitally analyzed wood from 1500 trees from 26 different countries to replicate the grain, the knots, and the growth rings in the plank sawn, cross sawn, and quarter sawn milling of the logs. When you combine a wood look with a ceramic body, you get a material that is fire-resistant, extremely hard-wearing, fade-proof, damp-proof, easy to clean, AND… eco-friendly. Because Porcelanosa's PAR-KER Forest Collection starts with 95% recycled material, its production produces 40% less Co2. Learn more by visiting https://www.porcelanosa-usa.com/. Type into their product search feature the word "PARKER" and hit enter. Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners: • The Center For Health Design • The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design Learn more about how The Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org. Connect to a community interested in supporting clinician involvement in design and construction of the built environment by visiting The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design at https://www.nursingihd.com/. Featured Product:

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25: Lisa M. Cini Jan 03, 2020

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Lisa M. Cini, Tech-Thought Leader, Best-selling author, National Designer for Senior Living and Aging in Place Environments, and Principal at Mosaic Design Studio on her purchase of the storied Columbus, Ohio Woodland Manor Mansion. Lisa (and her team) are in the process of transforming the mansion into a fully functional living experience to highlight the newest innovations in technology for senior and multi-generational living. She shares, "I was driving past this mansion one day, and I had always seen it on my drive home for about 20 years, and there was a for sale sign outside. And I thought, I'm supposed to buy this." This and more on the marriage of high-tech and healthcare design for multi-generational and senior living. Learn more about Lisa M. Cini by visiting: http://mosaicdesignstudio.com and https://lisamcini.com.

Lisa's latest book entitled, BOOM - The Baby Boomer's Guide to Leveraging Technology So That You Can Preserve Your Independent Lifestyle and Thrive is an #1 Amazon Bestseller. Lisa is also the author of Hive - "The Simple Guide to Multigenerational Living" and "The Future is Here: Senior Living Reimagined."

Lisa M. Cini has been published worldwide and she is a monthly contributor to national senior living websites and magazines. Lisa is considered a visionary in her field, and she is credited with developing repeatable, sustainable and durable designs that save her clients time and money.

Lisa has received a multitude of awards and honors for her design skills and business and leadership acumen, and has shared her senior living design expertise on the program "Today in America with Terry Bradshaw."

This podcast is brought to you by the award-winning, eco-conscious Porcelanosa—a global innovator in tile, kitchen and bath products. Porcelanosa's anti-bacterial, solid surface product K-LIFE (think countertops, backsplashes, sinks, and more) uses a technology called photocatalysis. P purifies the air, self-cleans, expels harmful bacteria, and eliminate chemical products when it is exposed to light.

K-LIFE can help reduce Hospital Acquired Infections and it's a gorgeous product. It can be shaped into anything you want, printed on, and lit up. Imagine the design possibilities for a hospital room! Learn more about Porcelanosa's K-LIFE and how to order samples of this BPA-FREE Certified and Reach Compliant product by visiting: https://www.porcelanosa-usa.com/klife/.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design and
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how the Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

24: Melinda P. Avila-Torio Dec 20, 2019

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Melinda P. Avila-Torio, NCIDQ, CHID, RID, CASP, LEED AP, and Senior Associate and Project Manager at THW Design on the need for private family rooms at senior living facilities. When a male executive at an assisted living facility was quietly in conversation with a resident, the resident suddenly and peacefully died. In order not to not alarm the other residents, the executive continued to softly speak to the woman, while holding her hand. According to Melinda, these types of experiences are on the rise and have created a need for dedicated and private family rooms. This and more on Environments for Aging design trends on today's episode of Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 - The Lightning Round. Learn more about Melinda P. Avila-Torio and THW Design by visiting http://thw.com.

*Please note this correction: The Ring Video, mentioned in the episode by Melinda, said to be brought into the 2009 Idea House was incorrect. The Digital Door View by FirstView Security is the correct name of this product. Home Technology Systems, Inc. was the vendor who brought The Digital Door View to the Idea House. We apologize for this error.

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Here's why. NOKEN's research and development department invented a wonderful new feature called The Cold ON System. This means when Noken's faucets are turned on, they start with cold water and only mix in hot water if and when the user intentionally chooses it.

This system eliminates the risk of burning and the unnecessary use of hot water. Energy use and CO2 emissions from heaters and boilers are also reduced. The best news? Noken's Cold-On faucets save 100 bathrooms 5000 gallons of hot water per year! Imagine how much savings in water for hospitals and healthcare facilities, and how many hugs you'll get from your clients. Learn more by visiting http://noken.com.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design and
The American Association of Healthcare Interior Designers

Learn more about how the Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

23: Rosalyn Cama Dec 05, 2019

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Rosalyn Cama, FASID, NCIDQ, EDAC, President and Principal Interior Designer at CAMA Inc. on The Time Between - traditionally known as "waiting time" in the hospital and healthcare setting. Rosalyn shares, "The space between care delivery can be so much longer. We decided to map these experiences and called it The Time Between. We wanted to know what people were thinking, feeling and seeking for distraction, and how the built environment could possibly improve those conditions. It is during these times of waiting that pain and confusion set in not just for patients, but for family members, as well." Learn more about The Time Between, and how it is during this time that patient satisfaction shifts as the patient's perception of care changes. This, and how CAMA Inc. is partnering with artisans and manufacturers to harness the healing power of touch and promote physical contact between patients, loved ones, and caregivers.

Rosalyn Cama, has been the President & Principal of CAMA Inc. for 36 years. CAMA is a health design lab, studio, and collection that has spearheaded the evidence-based design movement. You and your team use research, team leadership, consulting, prototyping, and interior design to create environments and experiences that empower wellbeing.

Rosalyn, along with partner artisans and manufacturers, started The CAMA Collection, in 2015. The Collection addresses the gap in the kit-of-parts needed to fully develop innovative interior environments that impact human behavior. CAMA Collection won Best of Year from Interior Design Magazine in 2015 and the Nightingale Award's Best of Competition in 2016.

Rosalyn was also a 2019 ASID Design Innovation Award Winner and named one of 2019's Women In Design---an honor awarded by Healthcare Design Magazine for her and her teams' creativity, thought leadership, and lasting works in the field of healthcare design. Learn more about Rosalyn Cama and CAMA Inc. by visiting https://www.camainc.com/. Learn more about The Cama Collection by visiting: http://www.camacollection.com/.

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This episode is sponsored by Stance Healthcare. It's 2019 and the best, most comfortable, beautiful, cleanable, durable and long lasting furniture for the hospital and healthcare space is a big freaking deal for designers. The award winning Stance Healthcare specializes in furniture for the healthcare environment that doesn't sacrifice comfort. Check out their complete catalog at: http://stancehealthcare.com.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how the Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

22, Part 1, Dr. Diana Anderson MD, ACHA, M.Arch Nov 11, 2019

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Dr. Diana Anderson, a licensed and board-certified healthcare architect and licensed Internist, on the growing role of the physician in healthcare design, and why she invented the term "Dochitect." She describes, "Even when I'm on rounds now in medicine, I'm constantly looking up at the lighting, looking at the ceiling tiles, and counting the square footage of a room, or really considering how the design is impacting what I'm doing." This and more on how healthcare design and architecture can penetrate the more superficial layers of design to impact end users more deeply by understanding the physician's role in the medical space.

Dr. Anderson has worked on hospital design projects within the United States, Canada and Australia, specializing in medical planning of inpatient units, specifically intensive care unit environments. As a "dochitect", Dr. Anderson combines educational and professional experience in both medicine and architecture, in order to truly understand what is involved in medical planning and working within the healthcare environment. Learn more about Diana Anderson and her work by visiting http://www.dochitect.com/. Learn more about Clinicians for Design by visiting: https://www.cliniciansfordesign.com/

This podcast is brought to you by the award-winning Porcelanosa—a global innovator in tile, kitchen and bath products. Learn more about Porcelanosa by visiting http://porcelanosa.com.

--- Let's play a game. I want you to count up every time you've had furniture delivered on a hospital or healthcare project, and the product fell short of your expectations. Do that on one hand. Now, on the other hand, I want you to count up how many times you've had to compromise the integrity of a project because you've been limited by furniture options and budget. Now, that was kind of a trick question because I know all of you need more than two hands to count up these situations. Here's a solution: Stance Healthcare. Stance specializes in furniture for the hospital and healthcare setting, and they pride themselves on working with designers who need to modify furniture for a variety of end users. Here's a great example. At the request of a designer, Stance modified their popular Legend chair to create a closed arm panel and they made the seat depth adjustable for different sized residents in an assisted living facility. How freaking cool is that? Start exploring now at: http://stancehealthcare.com/.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design and

Learn more about how the Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

In part one of Cheryl's conversation today with Dr. Diana Anderson, you will learn:

The story of how Diana started out as an architect and then went to medical school, and how this hybrid career led her to invent the word, "Dochitect".
Diana's "aha" moment in design came when she visited Paimio Sanatorium -- built in the early 1930s in Finland and designed by Alvar Aalto.
Diana poses the question, "Why not use the same uplifting colors as sometimes seen in pediatric hospital design in nursing home or other hospitals that need it so desperately?"
Why the placement of windows along corridors in hospitals is extremely effective in visitors not feeling lost.
How to bridge the gap between the designers who design hospital spaces and the end users of the space.
What is the group Clinicians for Design and why did Diana co-found it?
Why the medical profession is reaching out to other disciplines to help solve clinical questions.
Is there a need for design guidelines in Geriatric care?
How can we use the environment in Geriatric care to aid in quality of life and reduce some of the symptoms that might occur?
What is Universal Design and how can it be applied in healthcare design?
What does nursing home reform look like and what is the Dementia Village?

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22, Part 2, Dr. Diana Anderson MD, ACHA, M.Arch Nov 11, 2019

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In the second half of Cheryl's conversation with Dr. Diana Anderson, they discuss this idea of what is the moral imperative of the architect to communicate research to clients and discuss potential benefits and harms of design. "Architects are sometimes torn between thinking about the state of healthcare outside of their individual project to a client," Diana shares. "And I think we often have reservations about measuring design quality." This and more on the changing face of the healthcare design from a "dochitect's" perspective.

This podcast is brought to you by the award-winning Porcelanosa—a global innovator in tile, kitchen and bath products. Learn more about Porcelanosa by visiting http://porcelanosa.com.

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We've all seen some variation of this:

Somebody's kid sibling gets into their parent's closet and emerges, clothed in a dress or trousers that are 3 feet too long, trailing on the floor behind them.

It's cute as all get-out, right?

It's the end of 2019, and as healthcare thinking and design moves away from a one-size-fits-all, institutional mindset, towards a more personalized, individualized care model, you are looking for ways to move away from one-size-fits-all thinking in your hospital, healthcare & senior living projects.

Here's a great example from one of our podcast guests, Sara Parsons with Gallun Snow Associates. Sara shares, "Different patient populations need different art and graphics. A still life of fruit will not comfort a surgery patient checking in on an empty stomach and a mountain stream may be uncomfortable for an ultrasound patient arriving as instructed with a full bladder."

Art Addiction understands your unique challenges when it comes to selecting the very best artwork for your project. They offer a library of over 15,000 unique, gorgeous images, an in-house studio that can produce everything from small-scale yet durable and cleanable prints to mural-sized acrylic wall installations and their design support team is superb. Start exploring now by visiting https://www.artaddictioninc.com/.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

The Center For Health Design
The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design and

Learn more about how the Center for Health Design can support your firm by visiting: http://healthdesign.org.

In part two of Cheryl's conversation with Dr. Diana Anderson, you will learn:

What is the moral imperative of the architect to communicate research to clients and discuss potential benefits and harms of design?
Why do architects still feel they are at the mercy of their clients sometimes and would like to have more influence in how they can change architecture?
A growing need for the architecture community to share more of its research of their buildings to move the industry forward.
Design is now filtering into the clinical journals and is becoming an important aspect of research, which then can be presented to clients.
The story of how ICU physicians donated their own money to have two "breaking bad news" rooms made with windows and nice comfortable furniture because of the need to have a space to have difficult conversations with family members.
Anecdotal research has its place in design.
The hazards of hospitalization including excessive bedrest, and what happens physiologically when you put someone in bed.
Hazards of Hospitalization of the Elderly medical paper by Dr. Mortan Creditor, MD from the Annals of Internal Medicine. (See show notes for link to paper.)
The Canadian campaign PJ Paralysis is a simple idea with a huge impact.
What advice Diana has for interior designers interested in the specialty of healthcare, and who are also afraid of it.
The pros and cons of new voice technology being tested to help patients in the hospital room.

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