HCD Launches Follow Up Webinar on The Bridge to ER One

Creating a healing environment for an urban emergency department is a challenge that requires the considerations of many factors. The added complexity of developing an environment for all risk readiness, acts of terrorist and mass casualty events, require a design approach for an environment and materials that currently do not exist.

Barbara Huelat teams with Ella Franklin, from the ER One Institute at The Washington Hospital Center, to discuss the project, The Bridge to ER One. This “prototype” Bridge to ER One is a dual function project. It provides much needed expansion space for Washington Hospital Center’s growing Emergency Department while providing an opportunity to research, test, observe and provide evidence-based recommendations for the developing project, ER One. Project ER One is a federally funded initiative to develop the design concepts, features, and specifications for an all-risks ready emergency facility. Optimized to provide emergency medical care during acts of terrorism and epidemics, it is able to function fully as a hospital emergency department during daily operations.

The topics include how interior design can support research, how design differs in a research prototype project versus a standard construction project, and how a construction can become a prototype for research.

For more information, and to purchase your copy of the webinar presentation through the Vendome Group, please follow the link: http://links.mkt1408.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MzM0NzQ2MjES1&r=OTI2MDE2MTk1S0&j=NTIyNzc3ODgS1&mt=1&rt=0