The Healthcare Built Environment: A Canvas for Building Trust with Help from the Surfaces We Specify
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The healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, from sick-care to health-care. This course reviews the forces that are fundamentally changing the patient care strategy, including a summary of how those changes are being reflected in the demands placed on the built environments where that care is being delivered. The course concludes with a reflection on how the surfaces specified in the healthcare built environment can help or hinder the overall organizational effort to deliver the care providers desire and patients deserve.
Upon completion of this course, the Learner should be able to:
- Describe the economic, demographic, and organizational challenges facing the current and future state of healthcare and work within these challenges to create built environments that meet the health and safety needs of both patients and providers.
- Recall the challenges of successful patient-centered design including operational efficiency, low overhead burden, and facilitating and empowering providers in caring for a patient’s needs.
- Use a material selection process that delivers products and designs that result in safe, comfortable, and convenient environments for both patients and providers.
- Select surface materials that satisfy critical design components of surface disinfection, durability, and design to positively impact the overall well-being of patients and providers, such as reducing the occurrence of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs).
Approximately 1 hour. Delivered online, at your own pace.
Presented by Dr. Mark T. Krejchi on behalf of Wilsonart. View the Privacy Policy .
Presenter Information
Name: Dr. Mark T. Krejchi
Title: Healthcare Industry Manager, Wilsonart
Background: Mark Krejchi earned a Doctorate in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. After completing postdoctoral fellowships at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University, Mark took a position at Wilsonart where he has played important roles in the design, development, and commercialization of innovative decorative surfacing solutions, both in the US and abroad. Mark is the Healthcare Industry Manager for Wilsonart’s Engineered Surfaces Division. He is a frequent guest speaker in both academic and industrial circles on topics related to healthcare built environment, self-sanitizing surfaces, sustainable materials, and business/product innovation.
