Top 10 Keys to Holistic Healthcare Design
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Healthcare Design is complex, technical and challenging. Yet, it is fascinating, human-centered, research-based, and ever changing. Hospitals are buildings with multiple needs and uses where the opportunities to enhance the user's experience through holistic design are endless. As an industry that actively uses research to improve guidelines, designers are continuously challenged to excel and innovate not only on their final product, but also through their process.
So, what does the concept of "Holistic Healthcare Design" really mean?
The list below highlights Ten keys to enhance the process and elevate design:
1. Visioning - Finding Purpose
2. Decision- Making
3. Collaborative Design Integration
4. The power of Community Engagement
5. Safety - the undercurrent of every decision
6. Surviving cost analysis
7. Building consensus using Design Tools
8. Empowering of Wayfinding
9. The Magic of FF&E
10. Flexibility & Adaptability - the only thing constant is change
Diana Araoz-Fraser, LSSYB, Assoc AIA, IIDA
Vice President, Senior Healthcare Designer
HKS
Diana is a Vice-President/Studio Design Leader at HKS Inc. She is a passionate Healthcare Designer that thrives at finding creative and appropriate solutions in healthcare projects with varying size and complexity. She is committed to always enhance the user/patient experience in the projects that she embarks. Diana’s collaborative spirit excels thru her involvement in projects from conception to finish. With over 17 years of experience and substantial international experience, Diana has a broad understanding of design practices. Diana received her undergraduate degree in Interior Design from Purdue University and holds a Master of Science from Arizona State University. She has published articles and has participated in several conferences about healthcare design. She is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University and sits at the Board of Directors of The Children’s INN of NIH.
