The Harm-Less ED: Can Design Help Reduce Error?
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The Harm-Less ED: Can Design Help Reduce Error? is a webinar presentation of the unique challenges in designing an Emergency Department and how evidence-based design can improve patient and staff safety.


In this program, an experienced healthcare facility programmer and planner joins an emergency medicine doctor to discuss the latest trends that affect ED design. The speakers discuss the current and future issues that drive the design of Emergency Departments, planning ideas to improve productivity, efficiency, and patient satisfaction in the ED. They tackle the issue of how design can improve patient safety in this often chaotic and always stressful area of any healthcare facility. Learn how design decisions can affect the safety of patients and healthcare workers in the ED environment.


The presentation focuses on the unique challenges presented by an emergency department, and also covers the status of research regarding impact of the built environment on safety in the ED.

 


Webinar Learning Objectives

  • Familiarity with current and future issues impacting design of Emergency Departments
  • Knowledge of current status of Evidence-Based Design data in Emergency Department design
  • Understanding of a variety of recent Emergency Department planning options that address collaboration, efficiency, flexibility, violence, infection control, and error reduction
  • Recognition of opportunities to improve safety through design
  • Benefit of lessons learned from design assumptions to actual operations
  • Inspiration to investigate questions in ED design that will contribute to the Evidence-Based Design database

 

About the Speakers

Annie Coull, AIA, ACHA — Principal, Anshen + Allen

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Annie Coull is a Principal and Director of Planning with Anshen + Allen Architects in San Francisco. With education and professional experience in psychology, child development, and healthcare architecture, Ms. Coull has pursued a special interest in developing an enhanced collaborative user process to clarify organizational structure, culture, and goals; streamline decision-making; and, increase time for integrated healthcare design.


Ms. Coull served as National Program Advisory Chair of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health for almost a decade. She was also a founding member of the American College of Healthcare Architects. She has twice received Presidential Citations from the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health for Appreciation of Outstanding Service to the Profession.

Ms. Coull was a guest instructor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Executive Education Program for 8 years. She has spoken on design of children's healthcare environments at meetings of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), as well as published articles on this and other healthcare planning topics in various publications.

 

 


David Myers, MD, FACEP — Chief, Medical Practice Division, EmCare Inc.

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As Chief of the Medical Practice Division, Dr. Meyers provides oversight to EmCare's Risk Management operations and focuses on initiatives to improve outcomes and reduce errors. Besides actively practicing clinical emergency medicine, he has served as Medical Director and Department Chair at EDs in Illinois, Maryland and Virginia, as well as Regional Medical Director for EmCare in New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire.


Dr. Meyers was Chair of Emergency Medicine at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore where he led the design team for ER-7, a nationally recognized, innovative ED. He has also served on state EMS and patient safety oversight bodies and national panels, providing technical and content expertise on emergency medicine for CMS and several Quality Improvement Organizations. Dr. Meyers has practiced emergency medicine for over 25 years and is active in ACEP, where he is member of the Medical Legal and Quality and Performance Committees as well as past chair of the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Section . He recently chaired the College's Patient Safety Task Force focused on translating safety recommendations into College actions.