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For leaders – both current and emerging, and by leaders – an international roster of healthcare pioneers.  Not just another workshop – ‘a call to action’ for new, unprecedented levels of improvement to be replicated across all elements of the health, healthcare, and well being continuum.  In fact, this workshop – a ‘Symposium exclusive’ - is actually an intensive learning experience about an innovative approach to designing health-related and healthcare facilities that is the new frontier.

This workshop will provide: (1) the background on a seven year, international research project that has developed the model and tools for this approach to be both replicated and accelerated; (2) reports from several individuals who have applied this approach within their respective professional contexts;  (3) practical take-away resources for attendees; and (4) time for personal creative exploration and strategy development.

Today, we know how to design healthcare environments to not only improve patient outcomes – but also to materially improve the lives of individuals across a more diverse stakeholder range, improve the organizational performance for the provider, and improve the health and well being for the overall community.  This is the new emerging paradigm in healthcare.  It is an approach that is developmental, integrated, collaborative, and uniquely personal.  The documented results from this approach are sustainable, in that the improvements actually continue to improve over time.

This new approach has been developed during the past 12 years, through the original research of Dr. Wayne Ruga, the founder of the Symposium (1985) and The Center for Health Design (1992).  During the past 7 years, Dr. Ruga has developed the theory, tools, and application of cultivating a more ‘generative space’ as the means to make both systemic and sustainable improvements in health and healthcare.  Today, Dr. Ruga is working with 10 leaders in 5 countries who are applying this approach.

The key to this approach lies in the ability of individuals to learn how to ‘actively exercise health design leadership to cultivate a more generative space’.  This new approach is already transforming the paradigm of mainstream healthcare practice - see (www.aplacetoflourish.net).  This ‘Leadership Forum’ is a rare opportunity to engage with this international group of individuals, who have applied and demonstrated the practical benefits of cultivating ‘generative space’, and – as a result, learn to actively exercise health design leadership to participate in the shaping of the bold, new future of the healthcare industry and beyond.

PLEASE NOTE: Workshops require an additional fee to participate.

Open to Conference Attendees Only!

The Care Studio^TM project was developed from the task of joining together as professionals to fashion a healthcare system of the future, a system that can avoid the unsustainable models we deal with today.  The LongWave Group^TM has spent the last year looking at the effects of system integration across care delivery, built environment, and technology.  What would it mean to have acute care platforms mobile throughout the hospital?  What would happen if the patient never had to leave the care platform?  Could hospitals be built simply without the cost of complicated material, allowing capital spending to focus on technology upgrades to equipment that evolves faster than our buildings?  Why can’t we build with components cutting the time for construction by fractions.  During natural disasters, could we deliver buildings in weeks to provide that provide disaster care and leave them behind with a quality of permanence?  What are the limits?  Have you ever wondered what it would look like if you could have it be any way you wanted?
Join the LongWave Group^TM in three exciting sessions as we continue to explore systems integration across healthcare delivery.  The second will look at how we use existing technology to create new and innovative products.  The third session identifies ways to remove the walls in a fragmented industry, increasing the power of engaged collaboration.
Now is the time to ride the wave.  Let your voice be heard.  Join us in making a difference.  The only rule is, there are no rules!  Anything can happen, but only if you participate.

Achievable Benefits to the Industry and workshops participants:
The  workshop will provide opportunity to work alongside your peers to:
1.  Identify additional opportunities of systems integration across technology, the built environment, and operational healthcare delivery. 
2.  Identify new and creative uses of existing technology to produce alternative healthcare products.
3.  Promote the ability for increased collaboration through new operational models, technology, and environments.  
4.  Formulate ideas for future research and presentations at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo.

PLEASE NOTE:  Workshops require an additional fee to participate.