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The AIA Academy of Architecture
for Health invites you to join them in Denver November 19–22 for
their 2003 fall conference, "Women, Children, and Healthcare: Designing
Facilities for Distinctive Needs." This year’s event features
leaders in the field, including:
- Irwin Redlener, MD, associate dean at the Joseph L. Mailman School
of Public Health at Columbia University, who will present the opening
keynote address on “Family-Centered Care in Women's and Children's
Healthcare”
- Leanne Kaiser Carlson, a futurist known for her keen insight into
the forces transforming health care, who will speak about how to “Awaken
the Future: New Possibilities in Women's and Children's Health”
- Beverley H. Johnson, president and CEO of the Institute for Family-Centered
Care in Bethesda, Md., who will present the closing address.
The conference will
offer a number of forums on special topics, including architects in health-care
organizations, planning and programming, research facilities, technology,
therapeutic environments, and design value.
Participants also will have a special opportunity to join in five guided
tours of outstanding health-care facilities in the Denver area:
- Longmont United Hospital Bed Replacement Building, by HLM Design,
which includes $60 million of phased expansion projects plus a dynamic
new image statement for the hospital, created according to the architect’s
1993 master plan
- Boulder Community Foothills Hospital, by OZ Architecture, Boulder
Associates Inc., and Civitas, scheduled to be the first LEED-certified
in-patient hospital in the U.S.
- Parker Adventist Hospital, by HKS, Inc., a 101-bed facility located
on a 40-acre medical campus in Parker, Colo., which offers neighboring
communities all of the healing medical advantages of the 21st century
at a location closer than ever expected.
- Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion, by H+L Architecture, located at the
former Fitzsimons Army Campus in Aurora, Colo., is one of the largest
health-care facilities in the country built with fast-track design/build.
- Exempla Lutheran Heart Center, Wheat Ridge, Colo., by H+L Architecture,
has a three-year agreement with General Electric, under which GE will
keep the center in state-of-the-art equipment and software so it can
serve as a testing site for new product development.
The conference also will serve as the venue for special events, including
the annual Modern Healthcare Awards
Banquet, a special tour of Invesco Field at Mile High the 15th Annual
AAH/STERIS Student Design Charrette, the annual AAH Health-care Products
and Technology Exhibit, and the Health
Facilities Review Exhibition.
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