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Healthcare facilities are now striving to meet the needs of all patients to offer not only healthy and safe spaces, but inclusive spaces as well. Recent advances in plumbing design for healthcare facilities are helping to keep all patients and caregivers safe and healthy. This course reviews innovations in plumbing design and how these designs support trending healthcare needs such as ADA patients, bariatric patients, behavioral healthcare, and infection prevention.
Upon completion of this course, the Learner should be able to:
- Identify the design trends that benefit patients’ mental and physical health and which trends can be addressed through plumbing design.
- Define how plumbing fixture design and hand hygiene can address hospital acquired infections.
- Explain how behavioral healthcare design can affect patient safety.
- Discuss the needs of bariatric and ADA patients with regard to plumbing products.
Approximately 1 hour. Delivered online, at your own pace.
Presented by Kristin Kahle on behalf of Morris Group. View the Privacy Policy .
Presenter Information
Name: Kristin Kahle
Title: Vice President, Whitehall Manufacturing – a Member of Morris Group International
Background: Kristin Kahle has worked in the commercial plumbing industry for 20 years. In 1998, she started the luxury plumbing brand Neo-Metro, which specializes in durable commercial and correctional fittings, from the parent company Acorn Engineering Company (now named Morris Group International). Kristin’s experience in the plumbing industry and extensive knowledge of the hospitality, architecture, and design markets combined to create Neo-Metro’s line of fully customizable plumbing fixtures constructed from durable materials like stainless steel and cast solid surface. She took this knowledge into the healthcare industry with Whitehall. Ms. Kahle currently runs two divisions for Morris Group International: Whitehall Manufacturing and Neo-Metro.
