Collaborative Design Planning
This resource guides organizations through the process of collaborative design planning. It is designed to stimulate thinking about ways to collaborate with patients, families, and staff to create more supportive environments for all types of health care facilities.
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Collaborative Design Planning
Table of Contents
Introduction
Describes goals of the design planning process and emphasizes the necessity of including patients and families on the planning team.
Key Steps in the Design Planning Process
Maps out six steps to consider in the design process, from organizing a multidisciplinary workgroup to articulating the ideal and functional goals of the project.
Selecting an Architect or Designer
Describes steps to take when choosing a professional design firm. Includes characteristics to look for in design professionals.
Involving Patients and Families
Offers suggestions for selecting patients and family members and supporting them as active participants in all aspects of the design planning process.
Involving Children and Adolescents in the Design Planning Process
Provides strategies to capture the perspectives of children and adolescents in the design planning process.
Involving the Broader Community/Other Stakeholders
Illustrates ways in which the broader community can contribute to the design of health care facilities.
Preparing for and Conducting Collaborative Meetings
Offers guidance for planning and facilitating design planning meetings that bring together individuals with different perspectives, experience, and expertise-patients, families, staff from all disciplines, design professionals, and community representatives.
Patients and Families as Advisors: Design Process Profiles
Profiles the challenges and successes of the design planning process at four hospitals. Describes how these institutions involved patients and families in the process and how their involvement contributed to each project's success.
Tools and Exercises
- A Tool for Creating the Design Planning Process. A tool designed to foster innovative approaches to design planning and to expand the group typically involved in design planning.
- Health Care Environments: An Assessment Tool. Helps planning committee members begin to assess the hospital, clinic, department, or unit they are seeking to change and to stimulate discussion about specific unit programs, practices, and design during and following a site visit. This preliminary assessment will prepare the committee to determine design needs.
- Exercise: Envisioning the Ideal Design for a Hospital, Clinic, Department, or Unit. Assists participants in thinking in new ways about the design of facilities, departments, or units and in better understanding the perspectives and experiences of patients, families, and staff.
Appendices
- Glossary. Defines terms commonly used in the design process.
- Hospital Highlight: Design Team Launch of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Describes the design process for a new children's hospital, from the initial kick-off event to the opening of the new hospital.
- Annotated Bibliography and Resources. Contains annotations of publications, research, and resources pertinent to design that supports the practice of family-centered care.
- Institute Resources Related to Collaborative Design Planning. Describes resources on design and related topics available from the Institute for Family-Centered Care.