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Letter from the Editor
The March 2016 edition of the Academy Update features reports on your Board/committee activities and an article by Tom Clark with details on the upcoming Summer Leadership Summit. A second priority the AAH Board would like to bring to your attention is opportunities to consider for young professionals. The Next Generation and Herman Miller Scholarship programs can provide stipends to qualified young healthcare design professionals to attend key healthcare conferences. The U40 program, described in the Practice Advancement report in this edition, is another chance for outreach and recognition for young healthcare designers. If you are lucky enough to work with people that might be able to participate in these programs, advocate for them! Details for qualifications, submittal requirements and milestone dates will be available on the AIA AAH website.
Rebecca J. Lewis, FAIA, FACHA, CID
Communications
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President's Report
AAH 2016 President, Joan L. Suchomel, AIA
Welcome to the Academy’s first newsletter for 2016! The Academy Board worked very hard in late 2015 to put in place strategies, initiatives and an updated organizational structure, in order to more effectively serve our members’ needs in 2016. We are hard at it already. It might surprise you to know how many initiatives we have going; I think we were actually surprised ourselves, once we put it down on a single sheet of paper!
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Past President's Report
AAH 2015 President, Tatiana Guimaraes, Assoc. AIA
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Call for volunteers: After 15 years of active involvement and seven years on the Board of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, the value of the AAH to our profession has been proven to me time and again. The AAH has over 30 initiatives being pursued on behalf of our members. We hope you want to be involved. If you would like to discuss these volunteer opportunities within the AAH, please contact me. |
Feature
Tom Clark, FAIA, EDAC
July 22 – 24, 2016 | Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel | Chicago, IL
I am very excited about our theme and program for the 2016 Summer Leadership Summit (SLS) presented jointly with the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) and the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA). It will focus on the transition that our health system is experiencing (and we architects along with it!), on the path to ‘becoming the future’. In many ways, the future is better defined than the paths we will be on to get there. So we want to focus the content of this conference on that emergence, so we can more effectively lead our clients today.
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Call for Papers: Academy Journal 2016
Submissions due on or by May 31, 2016
You are invited to submit articles, innovative project case studies, completed research projects, and monographs in the field of healthcare design. All disciplines encouraged to submit (doctors, nurses, administrators, etc.). Articles should be timely; preview new trends; and address industry wide topics, issues of relevance, and emerging technology in the healthcare system.
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AAH Initiatives
Communications
Board Liaison, Rebecca J. Lewis, FAIA, FACHA, CID
Milestones and progress: The committee will be focused on the annual publications, blogs and social media outreach. The goal is to involve our Academy members in these publications as authors or contributors.
Research
Board Liaison, Tom Clark, FAIA, EDAC
Committee Chair, Byron Edwards III, AIA
Milestones and progress: We are exploring a new initiative (‘soft side’ of research). Collect and create an accessible database of case studies and POEs with the idea being to collect from HCD/PDC conference presentations, seek funding, and anchor it with a University partner.
Practice Advancement
Board Liaison, Tushar Gupta, AIA
Milestones and progress:
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The U40 List: AIA/AAH List of Healthcare Design's Best Under 40 is accepting nominations by April 1, 2016. Each year up to two individuals will be selected to have their names added to the distinguished U40 List and receive a $1,000 Travel stipend to attend the 2016 Summer Leadership Summit (SLS) in Chicago. Review the application!
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AAH and ACHA will sponsor two intern architects to attend the 2016 SLS through the 2016 SLS Next Generation Scholarship. Candidates should electronically submit application materials by April 22, 2016. Review the application!
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The 2016 AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards Call for Entries is open and the deadline to submit projects is March 14th. Visit the submission page for more details!
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Codes and Standards
Board Liaison, Chad E. Beebe, AIA, SASHE
Milestones and progress: The committee has completed its first phase of work developing proposals and the Health Guideline Revision Committee is currently reviewing and casting votes on the first round of public proposals for the 2018 edition.
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Upcoming Events
2016 PDC Summit: March 20-23 in San Diego
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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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AAH PDC Facility Tour: Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute
Sunday, March 20, 2016 | 1:00-4:30pm | La Jolla, CA
Prebys Cardiovascular Institute; Photo credit: HOK
In conjunction with PDC, the AAH will facilitate a guided tour of the new Prebys Cardiovascular Institute on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital, the region’s largest and most advanced center dedicated to cardiovascular care. The tour will be led by representatives from the owner, architect and contractor. The tour bus will depart at 1pm from the lobby of the PDC Summit Headquarters Hotel, the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. The cost to attend is $50. Tour has a limited capacity, so act quickly!
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Spring 2016 Architecture for Health Lecture Series
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Toward World Class Specialty Medical Facilities
The latest developments in healthcare and their effects on planning and designing world-class specialty hospitals - facilities with a narrower treatment focus than their full-service counterparts - will be discussed by health and design experts during the Spring 2016 Architecture-For-Health Lecture Series at Texas A&M.
The lectures, open to the public, will take place on most Fridays at 11:30 a.m. in Langford C105.
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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
New Health Systems Call For New Building Types
By Scot Latimer / Originally published in Healthcare Design
Serving as a juror for the annual Healthcare Design Showcase this past year, I saw several submissions that contained a host of excellent work related to hospitals and traditional health facilities. A number of other entries, however, captured a category not seen at this scale before: the multispecialty ambulatory facility.
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The New Healthcare Facilities Code
The new Healthcare Facilities Code (NFPA 99) may change the way we approach design for healthcare facilities. Since 2012, the code requires the “Governing Body” of the healthcare facility to make several decisions and assessments on a project that will determine the building and building systems risk on the patient should they fail. Each room, and in some instances area of a room needs a determination of risk. Once categorized, gas, electrical, IT, mechanical, electrical, equipment, security and fire protection requirements can be applied.
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Be an Active Member of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
If you are interested in becoming more active or just keeping in touch with activities and knowledge, please make sure the check the box of the AAH Knowledge Community when renewing your annual AIA dues. You may also, at any time, Sign In to your personal profile, click on “Knowledge Communities” and add the Knowledge Community of your choice.
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