We Shape Our Buildings, Then They Kill Us: Why Healthcare Buildings Contribute to the Error Pandemic CD-ROM
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We Shape Our Buildings, Then They Kill Us: Why Healthcare Buildings Contribute to the Error Pandemic  is a webinar presentation that discusses the relationship between healthcare facility design and patient safety and how safety can be improved though system-based design.

One of the great ironies of modern medicine is that the very environments created to heal often are the cause of countless injuries, illnesses and death to the vulnerable populations they serve. Not since Florence Nightingale visited the pestholes where wounded and sick British soldiers were housed in the Crimea has there been such a growing international awareness of the harm caused by the healing environment. The Bauhaus movement invited us to explore the relationship between form and function, yet today little formal knowledge is implemented in preventing patient harm with better design.


We Shape Our Buildings, Then They Kill Us traces the recent history of the patient safety movement describing the magnitude and character of the problem. It explores initiatives now underway to understand the causes of patient injury. It also shows how injuries may be mitigated or eliminated in hospital and other health care settings through use of architecture and design enhancements focuses on key architectural milestones relating to safe and system-based design


Webinar Learning Objectives


  • Understand the historical perspective of patient safety
  • Know why current development and design processes have not lead to patient-safe buildings
  • Understand the role of health facility design professionals in creating safer hospitals and outcomes

     

About the Speakers


Paul Barach, B.Sc., MD, MPH, Maj. (ret.)

Dr. Barach is a board-certified Anesthesiologist, with fellowship training in Cardiac Anesthesia, and Critical Care medicine, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he trained and practiced. He was Director of Quality, and associate Dean for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement and established the Center for Patient Safety and Simulation at the University of Miami. He led the effort in Florida to create the Florida Patient Safety Corporation. He is presently Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Public Health, and senior advisor on patient safety and quality improvement to the Dean at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

He spent 5 years in the Army and Special Forces focusing on trauma care, safety science, injury control, team training, and medical simulation. He later completed a Masters in Public Health, with emphasis on injury epidemiology and safety science. He is board certified in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and has authored over 120 articles, book chapters and other reports. He is a member of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Examiners Program, and has chaired and co-chaired several national and international meetings on patient safety adn quality, including the upcoming Harvard Quality Colloqium. He was editor of the journal Quality and Safety in Healthcare from 2001-2004.

He has been involved in evaluating the role of the built environment in healthcare including being member of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) Healthcare Guidelines Patient Safety working group, board member of the Coalition for Healthcare Research, a member of the Research Committee of the Center for Health Design. He delivered the keynote presentations at the 2005 International meeting on Human Factors and Patient Safety, the 2006 Annual meetings of the American Society of Quality (ASQ), the American Society of Healthcare Engineering (ASHE-PDC), the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), and the 2006 Healthcare Environments Research Summit, Dr. Barach consult s on the design of hospitals including the UCSF Mission Bay Medical Complex, the Department of Defense Fort Belvoir Hospital, and St Joseph Hospital in West Bend, WI .

Kenneth N. Dickerman ACHA, AIA, FHFI

A practicing architect with over 30 years of experience in the planning and design of health care facilities, Mr. Dickerman has over 100 projects to his credit. He serves as Director of Healthcare for the Miami office of Leo A Daly and as a national resource architect for the firm. Ken is a Founding Member of the American College of Healthcare Architects, Co-chair of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Codes & Standards Forum, and a member of the 2006 Guidelines Revision Committee. Ken has made numerous presentations related to patient safe design and has prepared articles on the topic for peer-reviewed journals. He is also the author of two major works on healthcare planning and programming.