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Call for entries

To recognize innovative,
life-enhancing interior design
that contributes to the quality
of healthcare

Healthcare
Environment Awards
2019

Deadline July 13, 2019
Final deadline July 20, 2019

Categories
* Acute (inpatient) Care Facilities
* Ambulatory (outpatient) Care Facilities
* Long-Term Care/Assisted Living Facilities
* Health and Fitness Wellness Facilities
* Landscape Design (healing gardens, etc.)
* Conceptual Design (professional, unbuilt projects)
* Student Design Work [Awards for student work
will be given for innovative design solutions that
enhance the quality of healthcare delivery. Entries
can include, but are not limited to, healthcare
products (furniture, furnishings, etc.); healthcare
settings (patient areas, examination rooms,
corridors, etc.); or technology (equipment,
systems, etc.)].
Judging Criteria
Professional Entries for Completed, Built Work
* Visual and graphic images of interior spaces
that support an environment capable of improving
the quality of healthcare based on sound
evidence-based design principles.
* A demonstrated response to the program statement.
* A noted partnership between the clients and
design professionals.
* Client feedback or testimony that the project
seeks to improve the quality of healthcare: Does
it demonstrate sensitivity to patient needs and
seek to improve therapeutic outcomes, enhance
staff performance, and increase visitor and
community participation? Were higher
satisfaction ratings by patients, families, and staff
a key design objective?

* Professional entries of built completed work
Professional Conceptual Entries as well
must include a minimum of six photographs,
as Student Entries
as well as a minimum of one floor plan, all
* A demonstrated response to the goals mentioned
submitted in .jpg format.
in the project description.
* Conceptual submittals and student entries must
* Visual and graphic images that support an
include .jpg images of renderings or photographs
environment capable of improving the quality
of models.
of healthcare
* Each professional built and conceptual entry
Recognition
must include a $250 entry fee and should be
* Winners will be announced at The Center for
submitted before July 13, 2019. The final extended
Health Design's awards presentation during the
deadline is July 20 (+$25 late fee for each entry
2019 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in
submitted after July 13). Student entries have
November 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
* One award will be presented to each winning project. a $25 fee.
Jurors
* Winners will be featured in the November 2019
Each entry will be reviewed by a jury of designers
issue of Contract magazine, which focuses on
and architects with expertise in healthcare design,
healthcare design, and on The Center for Health
Design's website: healthdesign.org.
including one representative of The Center
* Only those that win or receive honorable mention
for Health Design.
in each category will be notified.
Deadline
Rules for Entry
All entries, complete with payment, must
* Only entries submitted electronically at
be received electronically at contractdesign.com/
contractdesign.com/healthcareawards will
healthcareawards by Friday, July 13, 2019.
be accepted.
The extended and final deadline is July 20, 2019.
* The decisions of the judges are final. The judges
For questions, email Managing Editor,
reserve the right to make no award.
Lauren Volker at lauren.volker@emeraldexpo.com
* Professional entries of built work must be
interiors that are fully operational no earlier than
September 1, 2017, and no later than July 1, 2019.
Student entries must have been completed in
either the 2017-18 or 2018-19 school years. Entries
must not have been entered in previous
Healthcare Environment Awards competitions.

All entries must be submitted online.
For full information, and to submit your project,
visit contractdesign.com/healthcareawards
Sponsored by Contract magazine in association with The Center for Health Design
and the 2019 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference.
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