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Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities for Children
Due to popular demand, this is a pre-recorded replay of this Audio Conference. If you have any questions after the conference, you may contact the presenter directly.
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In order to create a warm and comforting atmosphere for children's hospitals, architects and facility managers must put themselves inside the mind of a child. However, designing a pediatric facility doesn’t mean just designing for toddlers. Users of these facilities span from age 0 to 18 and sometimes, due to the nature of some illnesses, even older than 18. So how do you incorporate imagery, navigational signs, and a sense of home that is joy giving to both the toddler who cannot yet read and the 18 year old? Join us for a 90-minute audio conference as we discuss critical issues that should be addressed when designing a pediatric unit that is patient, family and staff friendly.
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Learning Outcomes
- Define the strategic / functional / space program planning process;
- List considerations to research during the development of the Functional and Space Program;
- Define the key space allocation variables and the decision making process;
- Identify program planning and design guideline resources for Pediatric care services.
- Explain how to involve children in the planning and design process.
- Recognize evidence-based healthcare design practices which impact the healing process of children.
- Identify how to design for differing ages of pediatric patients.
- Recognize "best-in-class" examples of well-designed healthcare environments for children.
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Who Should Purchase this CD?
- Healthcare Executive
- Decision-Makers:
- CEOs
- CFOs
- Facility Directors & Managers
- Nurses and Nursing Units
- Planning & Design Professionals:
- Architects
- Strategic Planners
- Program Planners
- Interior Designers
- Equipment Planner
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Presenters and Panelists:
George Pressler AIA, FHFI, ACHA
President
Planning Decision Resources, Inc.
George Pressler is the Founder and President of Planning Decision Resources, Inc. (PDR). Mr. Pressler provides strategic facility planning, programming, and design services to the healthcare community. Emphasis is placed on operationally efficient space programming through functional space planning. His objective is to plan facilities with the capability of adapting for future alternative uses to incorporate new technologies as well as improved patient care delivery models. Over the past thirty-five years, Mr. Pressler has continued participation in leadership capacities with numerous national professional organizations such as: Faculty with California State University Graduate Program in Health Administration, The AHA/Health Forum, AIA Academy on Architecture for Health, serves on the Boards of the Symposium on Healthcare Design and The Caritas Project, Health Care Executives, and the Healthcare Association of Southern California, and is a Founding Member of the American College of Healthcare Architects. He has participated on over 600 exemplary healthcare projects throughout the United States and abroad.  Eric J. Kutche, MBA, AIA, NCARB
Registered Architect and Healthcare Strategic Planner
Throughout his career, Eric has been professionally involved with the intricacies of medical facilities planning and design, including the incorporation of methodologies that maximize infectious disease control during capital improvement projects. Eric has developed long-range plans, master facility and site development plans, functional, and space programs, certificate-of-need applications, and schematic designs for projects in both the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors of the healthcare industry. His professional affiliations include a research partnership and membership with the Advisory Board Company of Washington, DC; membership with the American Institute of Architects' Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH); and an Affiliate Partnership with the Center for Health Design.
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