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Letter from the Editor
Welcome to the December edition of the Academy Update. I hope many of you were able to attend the HealthcareDesign Conference in Washington, DC in November. I enjoyed seeing many Academy members as we celebrated our 70th anniversary. As we end 2015 and transition into the new year, so does our board and leadership of the Academy. Please join me in thanking Tatiana Guimaraes for her leadership and service to the Board for this past year and many years leading up to her Presidency. We owe her great commendation and gratitude. We also celebrate the transition of leadership to Joan Suchomel, who will continue to march forward the ideals and responsibilities of the Academy into a new year of progress and prosperity. Please join me in congratulating Joan and supporting her in 2016.
The feature of this edition of the Academy Update highlights the relevance and importance of the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Thank you to Brenna Costello, AIA, EDAC, Principal | Healthcare Studio and Erin McNamara, EDAC, Associate | Health Practice Manager both with the SmithGroupJJR.
As always, we value the input and support of our membership. If you have a particular interest for this publication or communications, please feel free to contact me. The quality of this publication is dependent on participation from our valued membership! I hope you enjoy this edition.
Kind Regards,
Marc Marchant, AIA
Communications
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AAH President's Note
By AAH 2015 President, Tatiana Guimaraes, Assoc. AIA
To our dear Academy of Architecture for Health members:
It is amazing how fast the year has passed by, and I am grateful for the wonderful efforts and progress we had in 2015. It was a very exciting year for us…we celebrated our 70th anniversary! We took time to look at our initiatives (there are over 30 of them!), we reorganized our board and roles, and we developed goals and strategies for our efforts, as well as built a sponsorship program and continued to move forward and build on our existing programs. Wow…what a year.
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Feature
The Patient-Centered Medical Home
By Brenna Costello, AIA, EDAC, Principal | Healthcare Studio and Erin McNamara, EDAC, Associate | Health Practice Manager (both with the SmithGroupJJR)
With the advent of health reform, the evolution from a fee to performance model, and the increasing importance of primary care, the medical home concept has gained new traction. Originally introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1967, the concept was defined as the central coordination of a child's medical records. Over time, the model has evolved to encompass patient- and family-centered care and population health concepts. The primary goal: to improve, through better collaboration, the quality of care while reducing healthcare costs.
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Committee Reports
Design Awards
By Chair, Tushar Gupta, AIA
The 2015 Healthcare Design Awards were presented at the Summer Leadership Summit in Chicago this summer. Please view a full list of the recipients. We also encourage you to check out the 2015 Awards Magazine Supplement for a more in-depth look at the projects.
Regional Initiatives
By Chair, Helen Darby Byce, AIA
By Board Liaison, Tom Clark, FAIA, EDAC
Committee Members: Northwest: Solvei Nieger, California: Vince Avallone, Southwest/ Mountain, West: Bill Sheely, Midwest/ Upper Midwest: Candace Small, Central: Paul Whitson, South Central: Jennifer Youssef, North Atlantic: Helen Cohen, Mid-Atlantic: Julie Hager, South Atlantic: Helen Byce, Florida: Steve Langston.
Current activities:
- We filled in committee member positions—see 3 new in bold italics above
- Set up 2 pilots for collaboration with ACHA for arranging national speakers at regional event
- We are making personal contact with those who have existing organizations to document them with descriptions of the various models
- In 2016, we will reach out to cities that don’t have programs to offer help
Research
By Chair, Ron Smith, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP
By Board Liaison, Tom Clark, FAIA, EDAC
Committee Members: Byron Edwards, Deborah Franqui, Eve Edelstein, Patrick Leahy, Samira Pasha, Upali Nanda, Lindsey Stang, (Erin Peavey liaison to AAHF Grants Committee)
Current activities:
- Knowledge Repository: We continue to help guide this important project with quarterly strategy meetings with the Center and other sponsors
- Healthcare Design Conference in November: presentation at Research Forum to examine the research informed practice, titled “A Practitioner’ Foray into Research”
- Connecting with AAHF grants committee: meeting together quarterly to stay aligned
- We are ‘Sunsetting’ this: Connecting with Research Entities: interviewing research entities to learn of relevant research past/present/future for enhancing Research Agenda and to ‘feed’ Knowledge Repository
- The committee held a special meeting to define our purpose/goals
- We are beginning to study how Post-occupancy evaluations and case studies may be collected for sharing
Codes and Standards
By Chair, Chad E. Beebe, AIA, SASHE
The Codes and Standards Committee set out this year to create several sub-committees and to expand our look at the primary codes and standards that apply to healthcare facilities. In years past the Academy focused only on the FGI Guidelines, but we know there are many other codes and standards that affect healthcare. Many codes are being developed without considerable input from the architectural community, yet we are probably the single largest user of these documents.
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Upcoming Events
2016 PDC Summit: Early Bird Registration Ends January 15
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March 20-23, 2016 | San Diego, CA
In today’s rapidly shifting health care landscape, it is more important than ever to understand and anticipate the field’s top challenges. Register to attend the PDC Summit to collaborate with one another and learn how to target health facility planning, design, and construction professionals.
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2016 ACHA/AIA AAH Summer Leadership Summit (SLS)
July 22-24, 2016
Chicago, IL
Look for registration to open in early February 2016!
2016 Healthcare Design (HCD): Expo & Conference
Save the date! November 12-15, 2016 at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. This is the premier event devoted to how the design of responsibly built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and into the future.
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News
27th Annual STERIS Student Design Charrette
It was another great year for the 27th Annual STERIS Student Design Charrette at the Healthcare Design Conference in Washington DC. The participating schools were: Ball State University, Clemson University, Cornell University and the University of Kansas. This year’s topic was “Creating an Education and Research Center for the USDA and the FDA” on the National Mall. The teams traveled to the Smith Group JJR’s office for the kick off presentation and had 48 hours to design their buildings.
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AIA Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design
Three recipients of the AIA Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design presented their research at this year’s HealthcareDesign Conference in Washington, DC.
Faria T Islam
Ph D candidate at The University of Kansas
Topic: Staff Perception on ICU Design Features
Shan Jiang
Shan Jiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Davis-Landscape Architecture/ Environmental Design
West Virginia University
Topic: Encouraging Engagement with Therapeutic Landscapes: Using Transparent Spaces to Optimize Patient Stress Reduction in Urban Health Facilities
Kirsten Staloch
Graduate Student Clemson University
Topic: Outreach and medical access in isolated communities: The influence of the built environment
In 2016, Tatiana Epimakhova, the recipient of this year’s fellowship, will be presenting her topic of Creating Multigenerational Settings for "Third Age" Populations in the USA at HCD 2016.
Who Will be Your Next Client?
The Academy of Architecture for Health has teamed up with ASHE and the American Hospital Association to provide a great opportunity for healthcare architects. The Architectural Showcase and Compendium is a great way to get your firms name and selected projects in front of nearly all of the hospital CEO’s in the country. ASHE and AHA have agreed to send the compendium, a published collection of projects and firm contacts to every member hospital CEO member and display the projects in front of nearly 10,000 Facility Managers. In a meeting with ASHE/AHA leadership it was expressed that hospitals CEO’s are on the lookout for more than just the large hospital projects that have typically been submitted. They are looking for examples of projects and firms that deliver creative reuse of space, using existing infrastructure. The showcase is open to all firms, big or small, so get your firm listed today!
2015 Herman Miller Scholars
Congratulations to the five recipients of the 2015 Herman Miller Scholarship! Herman Miller Healthcare sponsored the recipients to attend the HealthcareDesign Conference. This scholarship program is part of Herman Miller's continuing commitment to excellence in healthcare architecture and support of young architects.
Judith Crews
HDR Architecture, Inc.
Trenton Hinze
Davis Partnership Architects
Luis Martinez, MHA, EDAC, Assoc. AIA
The Innova Group
Jennifer Sutherby
NBBJ
Shuo Yang, AIA, LEED AP
Hord Coplan Macht, Inc.
Be an Active Member of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
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