Healthcare Design returned to wine nation for the sixth annual Healthcare Design Discussion board held Sept. 7-9 at The Meritage Resort & Spa in Napa Valley, Calif. Bringing collectively Healthcare Design’s Editorial Advisory Board, HCD 10 award winners, invited attendees, and sponsors, the three-day occasion featured keynote and panel periods, networking occasions, small-group breakouts, and, sure, some wine tastings.
Kicking off this system, Dr. Stella Safo from Mount Sinai in New York mentioned designing for well being fairness and why it’s important to have sufferers assist the design neighborhood in that effort. “We’ve got to have sufferers be a part of us on the design desk,” she says. The purpose, she provides, is to “design a greater healthcare system collectively.”
Healthcare Design Editor-in-chief Jennifer Kovacs Silvis led an house owners’ panel dialogue with representatives from a number of main healthcare techniques on challenges they face, together with how they’re addressing social determinants of well being via their tasks and initiatives. Silvis additionally shared her annual presentation, “HCD Insights,” exploring traits from the journal’s A/E/C business and office traits surveys performed earlier this yr.
Topping off the final day was a panel dialogue with present and previous HCD Rising Star winners on the way forward for the business.
Additionally on the menu at this yr’s occasion was a Sport Present Extravaganza, the place groups of attendees competed in a mashup of “Jeopardy,” “Household Feud,” and “Minute to Win It” challenges; a wine tasting and dinner at Paraduxx Vineyard; and the annual HCD 10 awards dinner, held exterior on the resort.
The occasion was made attainable by sponsors Carolina, Kevin Barry Artwork Advisory, Kimball Worldwide, Kwalu, La Z Boy Healthcare, Paladin Healthcare, Porcelanosa, Shaw Contract, and Whitehall Manufacturing.