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In partnership with the Vendome Group, LLC, publishers of HEALTHCARE DESIGN, DESIGN Environments for Aging, and Health Environments Research & Design Journal, IIDA is pleased to launch a new CEU series, Interior Design Notes. The bimonthly series features a CEU based on an article from HEALTHCARE DESIGN.
By Christine Vandover

Oftentimes interior designers, architects, and facility owners don’t fully understand the expertise and creativity that the field of environmental graphic design (EGD), an intersection of communication design and the built environment, can bring to a project. Here we learn more about how using integrated environmental graphics helps transform healthcare environments.
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Healthcare Design For The Ages by Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Assimilating Art Into Healthcare Design Projects by Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor
Evaluating the Effects of Positive Distractions on Imaging Rooms by Xiaobo Quan, PhD, EDAC, and Anjali Joseph, PhD, EDAC
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By Alison LeVino Jones and Sandy Boyette

In the United States, most healthcare design projects are driven by very concrete metrics: schedule, cost, code, and proforma, to name a few. Often the program is in place before the first user group meeting, with very little wiggle room for study, interviews, or meaningful research. But what if these criteria mattered less than observance and integration of the local culture and traditions of the area?
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International Healthcare Design: Lessons Learned by Brenda Smith, IIDA, LEED AP, RID and Dawn Mixon Bennett, RA
Breaking ground: The international evidence-based design story by Callie Fahsholz and Pamela Cheng
Turkish Hospitality Meets Modern Healthcare Design by Lauren Pinch and Dilek Hocaoglu
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By Denise Tom-Sera, IIDA, LEED AP BD+C, EDAC

When we design a building, especially one that involves health, we design it to respect and reflect the spirit of its place and the people who inhabit it. We believe that the environment can contribute to healing when people have a sense of comfort and familiarity when they walk in the door.
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Why Good Design is Good Business by Andreas Charalambous, AIA, IIDA
Drawing On a Vision by Patricia D. Malick, AAHID, EDAC, and Christopher P. Trotta
Journey of Transformation to an Optimal Healing Community by Pamela Kleba and Julie Kent
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By Erin Schmidt, IIDA, NCIDQ, LEED AP ID+C, and Angela Mazzi, AIA, ACHA, EDAC

Designers often use storytelling as a way to communicate with clients. And a strong narrative becomes even more crucial in an evidence-based design (EBD) project, opening the doors for more innovation. It shows the client and user what’s important beyond the functions of the space and how the two are interwoven.
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Evidence-based Design Informs the Art Program at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital by Hank Hancock and Sarajane L. Eisen, PHD, EDAC, IIDA
Impact of Design on Healthcare Respite Spaces by Caroline Kelly, EDAC, MID; Karyl King, BAS, PMP, and Karen J. Vander Laan, PhD, MSN, RN
Improving Staff Outcomes in Inpatient Units—A Canadian Context by Patti Cochrane, RN, BScN, MHSc, Juliet Nishimura M.S., M.Eng, Gary Spencer, MSc, MBA, and Ellen Taylor, AIA, MBA, EDAC
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Interior design use in alleviating depression and anxiety.
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Children's Hospice Creates Normalcy Through Family-Friendly Design by Kristin D. Zeit, Editor-in-Chief
The Focused Cancer Patient Experience by Shandi Matambanadzo, Associate Editor
Art and Mental Health by Upali Nanda, PhD, Assoc. AIA, EDAC, and Sarajane L. Eisen, P
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By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor

Curtain walls and modular building components may not always be immediately associated with interior design, but two of this year’s Architectural and Interior Design Showcase jurors saw these and other new concepts joining some of the more tried and true.
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The Big Picture:Framing Healthcare Design Today by Todd Hutlock
Trendspotting:The Next 10 Years of Healthcare Design
by Sara O. Marberry, EDAC
Citation of Merit Winner: Miami Valley Heart and Orthopedic Center
by Kristin D. Zeit, Editor-in-Chief
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The executives at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago know that art has an emotional component and an ability to transform the experience of all who visit their facility.
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Part Medical Building, Part Art Gallery by Kim Reiss
More Than 'Art' by Sara Gally
Art in Healthcare by Michael Lehman
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Have you heard the expression, “Good things come to those who wait”? Do you agree with it? Mary Bamborough, IIDA is a Senior Client Relations Consultant with Haworth and is president of the IIDA Michigan Chapter.
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Clinic Design: The Waiting Rooms by Christine Guzzo Vickery
Positive Distractions by Debajyoti Pati, PhD, FIIA, LEED AP
Designing Comforting, Caring Waiting Spaces Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care by Linda Haggerty
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By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor

Western Galilee Hospital-Nahariya serves as the main hospital for the people of northwest Israel. However, in addition to its daily order of business, the facility with a location just six miles from the Lebanon border also has been established as the primary treatment center for casualties resulting from volatility between the two nations.
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Initiating Change in Baby Steps by Linda Porter Bishop
Hotel or Hospital-ity? by Collin Beers, AIA, and Jennifer O'Shea, ASID
The State of Healthcare Design in the Arabian Peninsula by Samantha Sirzyk
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By Natalie Symon, IIDA, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C

Planning ahead for implementing a healing garden into a project is like preparing a garden in autumn for a bounty of beautiful blooms in the springtime.
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Healing Garden's New Dimension: Edible Gardens by Stacy Parcell
Putting the Health Back in Healthcare Settings by Lydia Stone Kimball, ASLA, LEED AP BD&C
Better than a Pain Pill by Shannon Mitchell, RLA
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By Rebecca Donner, IIDA

How to successfully prepare for future interior design projects.
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Masterminding the Master Plan Process by Jeffrey Stouffer, AIA
Drawing on a Vision by Patricia D. Malick, AAHID, EDAC, and Christopher P. Trotta, AIA
Strategic Planning and Institutional Health by Howard Skoke, AIA
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by Andreas Charalambous, AIA, IIDA

Designing an office that not only functions seamlessly, but also is a great environment to work in for the doctor and the staff while also reflecting the uniqueness of the practice, is a smart investment in the future and a large factor in its long-term success.
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Changing perception: Hospital brand as a design strategy by Matthew DeGeeter, LEED AP, Allied Member ASID, Associate IIDA
When Healthcare Gets Too ‘Clinical’ by Bruce Barteldt
Drawing on a Vision by Patricia D. Malick, AAHID, EDAC, and Christopher P. Trotta, AIA
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By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor

Houston’s Legacy Community Health Services reflects its neighborhood vibe in the design of a new clinic.
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Hospitals as Community Leaders by Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Freestanding Emergency Departments by Mary Frazier, AIA, LEED AP
Outside In by Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor
By Jane Rohde, FIIDA, AIA, AAHID, ACHA, LEED AP

Not only has the VA committed to creating environments based upon person-centered care models with Planetree for improvement of patient, resident, and staff outcomes, but the VA is also fully implementing sustainable benchmarking with the Green Building Initiative’s new electronic-based survey tool.
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What is the Hospital of the Future? by Janet Brown, Contributing Editor
Affinity Health System’s Three-Pronged Approach to Sustainable Construction by Janet Brown, Contributing Editor
Hope is Growing by Janet Brown, Contributing Editor
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By Chu Foxlin, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP

An interior space with a distinct theme is common practice in restaurant and hotel design. But in recent years, more healthcare organizations, particularly children’s hospitals, have begun adopting themed designs—and with good reason.
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The Culture of Possibility by Annette Ridenour
Designing a World-Class Children's Hospital by Engaging a World-Class City by Bruce K. Komiske, MHA, FACHE
DNA-Shaped Tower by Jason T. Chan, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
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By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor

The team at Puchlik Design Associates of Pasadena, California, was faced with a unique objective when it was brought on to design the Spine Institute and Orthopedic Center at Glendale Adventist Medical.
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Designing for More than Meets the Eye by Alison LeVino Jones, AAHID, ASID, IIDA, LEED AP and Sandy Boyette, AAHID, NCIDQ
Creating Calm: How One Design Team Answered the Complexities of Neurology with a Serene Space by Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor
Community-Based Art in a Critical Access Hospital: Collaboration and Reflection by Andrea Gallagher
By Linda Porter Bishop

The almost overnight political changes in Egypt and Tunisia were unimaginable dreams 12 months ago, while protests and upheavals still continue in Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen. Changes in the region’s public healthcare systems tend to follow a slow projectory.
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Hotel or Hospital-ity? by Collin Beers, AIA, AND Jennifer O'Shea, ASID
The State of Healthcare Design in the Arabian Peninsula by Samantha Sirzyk
Overseas Observations by Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
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by Todd M. Harshman, AIA

Lancaster General Hospital recently repositioned the Women & Babies Hospital entrance pavilion guest services area in preparation for its 10th anniversary celebration.
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Bringing Rejuvenation to the Renovation by Jennifer Kovacs Silvis
Imaging Center Embraces Women-Centered Care by Romano Nickerson, AIA, Scott Paddon, Associate AIA, and Jenny Reece, IIDA
Exclusively for Women by Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
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by Debbie Gregory, RN, BSN, Assoc. IIDA

Key considerations for optimal planning and coordination of architecture, design, and technology.
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Critical Technology Issues Hospitals Will Face in the Next Five Years by Steven Juett, PE
Planning the "New Market" Hospital by Todd Hutlock, Editor-in-Chief
Healthcare Facilities and Data Centers: Converging at the Point of Care by Dan Draper
by Karen Edmundson

Healthcare facilities are finding that by converting traditionally stark, clinical interiors into functional, aesthetic, and positive spaces, they can improve patient satisfaction, facilitate healing, enhance visitor comfort, and even increase employee activity. This article looks at five areas--priorities across many healthcare facilities today--that are being shaped by furniture and design advances, enabling organizations to improve quality care while delivering superior overall patient experience.
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Designing for the (Bariatric) Population by Kristen Delgandio, IIDA and Deborah Breunig, RN, BSN, MBA
Hospitality Meets Healthcare by Shannon Kraus, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, and Jeff Jensen, AIA
Designing for Infection Protection by Ron Connovich
by Mary Bamborough, IIDA

Stories can make a great addition to healthcare interior design presentations. What steps can we take to be sure we have created a unique and special solution to the many issues that surround environments in a healthcare facility?
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The Use of Color in Healthcare Settings by Mary Bamborough, IIDA
Planning for Project Success: The Importance of the Schematic Design Process by Mary Bamborough, IIDA
Variation on a Theme: Facility Branding for a Midwestern Healthcare Provider by Mary Bamborough, IIDA
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