Campus Revitalization: Transforming 1950s Hospitals into Modern Health Care Environments

Campus Revitalization: Transforming 1950s Hospitals into Modern Health Care Environments is a webinar presentation on the strategies required to transform aging healthcare facilities into patient-centered healing environments with modern amenities, infrastructure systems, and the ability for growth in the future.

The typical 1950s hospital design often includes a cross-in-plan patient tower at the center of campus or a linear hospital stretched along a main urban street. Over the last fifty years new surgery, emergency, research and diagnostic additions have surrounded these original patient bed towers. Faced with increasing demands for new technology, fierce competition, and ever-increasing regulatory standards, these overloaded corridors are challenged to provide infrastructure that meets today's patient expectations and code requirements.

The ultimate goal is to rebuild the heart of the campus, supporting administrative, physician, staff and patient needs for the next fifty years. And all of this work must be done in a facility that is operating 24/7 and must still serve one of its main functions as the primary traffic artery across the campus when it comes to shuffling patients and staff around.

Campus Revitalization: Transforming 1950s Hospitals into Modern Health Care Environments presents the revitalization strategies need to shift confined semi-private patient rooms into spacious, patient-centered healing environments that incorporates modern nursing amenities, and replaces “windowshakers” and 200v power with new infrastructure systems that support patient comfort and medical technology demands.


This webinar program walks hospital planners and designers through the thought processes and steps necessary to achieve this difficult, but doable, task.

 
Webinar Learning Objectives

Participants in this program will learn to:

• Translate business strategies into planning criteria
• Develop strategies for a long term campus master plan and infrastructure revitalization
• Balance staff, patient, technology and environmental requirements

About the Speakers

Anne Bernardini, AIA
Ms. Bernardini is an Associate with Harley Ellis Devereaux. She received a Master of Arts in Human Environment and Design from Michigan State University then went on to acquire her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan. She has 20 years of experience in healthcare planning and design. She is a registered architect in the State of Michigan and NCARB certified.

Anne's design philosophy centers on the knowledge that the environment has a direct impact on the quality of patient care. She is particularly skilled in integrating functional needs, engineering criteria and technical processes to achieve creative, cost-effective design solutions. She has a solid understanding of the technological, regulatory and marketing forces that affect the healthcare industry. Her professional commitment is to exceed the expectations of administration, staff and most importantly patients. Anne's ability to interpret user needs in the programming and planning stages allows her to achieve creative and effective design solutions.

Anne believes that in every project, small or large, there is an opportunity to enhance the environment and improve the patient's experience.


Julie Kent
Ms. Kent is an Associate and Strategic Planner with Spectrum Strategies, the planning and management consulting division of Harley Ellis Devereaux Corporation. Over the last 11 years, she has utilized her strengths in systems-based thinking to assist nationally ranked hospitals, universities, and corporations in the development of business strategies that align their space, processes and technology systems.


Rick Hall, AIA ACHE
Mr. Hall brings 28 years of healthcare design experience to his role as Director of Healthcare Services at Harley Ellis Devereaux Corporation. In addition, to overseeing the healthcare offices in Chicago, Detroit and San Diego, Rick specializes in guiding our long-term clients through the development and implementation of complex urban campus master plans and revitalization strategies.