Desperately Seeking Safety: Creating Surgical Environments That Do No Harm
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Desperately Seeking Safety: Creating Surgical Environments That Do No Harm is a webinar presentation that explores the use of evidence-based design for building and renovation of surgical environments.


The world is in the middle of the biggest hospital construction boom in a half-century. There remains a large disconnect between designers and users with the result that little formal knowledge is implemented in preventing patient harm by better building design. This disconnect is particularly apparent in designing perioperative settings (i.e., pre-op, operating room, recovery room, intensive care unit). Two expert speakers will review the evidence-based design and describe initiatives underway to design safer perioperative environments.



Webinar Learning Objectives

  • Consider the effect of designing the physical surgical environment to deliver safe patient care.
  • Review the more recent knowledge related to the surgical environment and patient safety.
  • Discuss the attributes of various quantitative and qualitative research methods as they related to measuring the impact of the perioperative environment.
  • Learn to incorporate safe design principles into the design and construction of surgical hospitals and health care facilities.

 


About the Speaker

Bill Rostenberg, FAIA, FACHA

Sam Bierstock  

Bill Rostenberg, FAIA, FACHA is a Principal and Director of Research with Anshen + Allen Architects in San Francisco. He has written numerous books and articles about the design and planning of healthcare facilities, including the newly updated The Architecture of Medical Imaging.

 

Mr. Rostenberg is a guest instructor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Clemson University Graduate program in Architecture + Health, and speaks internationally at The Radiological Society of North America, The American College of Surgeons, The Association of Peri-operative Registered Nurses, The American College of Healthcare Executives and numerous other medical and architectural professional organizations.

 Bill has served on the Board of Directors and has been the National Program Chair of the AIA/AAH for over a decade. He was elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 2001 for his notable contributions in advancing the practice standards of architecture. Mr. Rostenberg is a founding fellow of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA), and has been awarded Presidential Citations, both nationally and locally, from the AIA/ Academy of Architecture for Health for Extraordinary Service to the Profession. Bill is also a recipient of the AIA/AHA National Fellowship in Health Facility Design and serves on the Editorial advisory board of the Health Environments Research and Design journal.