Canadian Centre for Healthcare Facilities - CCHF

Are you interested in helping identify future event themes, session topics, speakers, and other resources? Then you should be on one of our steering committees! If interested, contact us at http://cchf.net/interested-in-a-steering-committee/.

You can also shoot us an email if you think you or someone you know would make a great speaker at our next conference, at http://cchf.net/session-or-speaker-idea/!

to our Calgary Conference at the end of October! Here are a couple more photos of the attendees and a few speakers. A great time was had by all!

Not only are simple design choices like wood floors vs. cold linoleum important to the overall patient experience, but so is straightforward and fitting communication between caregiver and patient.

Here’s a great article on the Rotterdam Eye Hospital's patient communication program, which categorizes each patient into four different types: "Google Patients", "Dominant Patients", "Quiet Patients", and "Emotional Patients". By categorizing each patient, the caregiver can then communicate and interact in an appropriate way that both educates and comforts each patient archetype.

Check out the article below:

https://hbr.org/2017/11/how-design-thinking-is-improving-patient-caregiver-conversations

How Design Thinking Is Improving Patient-Caregiver Conversations Patients want to talk about their treatment in different ways.

If you missed our past and events, or you attended but would like to refresh your memory of each event, presentation slides can now be found at our website!

The presentation slides from our Toronto event can be found at http://cchf.net/events/toronto/, and our Calgary slides can be found at http://cchf.net/events/calgary/.

Browse through all of the fascinating presentations online, or download them to reference in the future.

Transforming Healthcare Environments, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto » CCHF

Thank you to everyone who came out to our conference "Transforming Healthcare Environments" at Women's College Hospital yesterday! And a huge thanks to all of our amazing speakers, whose fascinating talks made this event such a success.

Our Toronto conference "Transforming Healthcare Environments" is TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 28! If you haven't registered yet, you can still do so on our website, http://cchf.net/events/toronto/.

It will be an amazing day of discussion and insight from healthcare and design professionals. You shouldn't miss it!

We’re lucky to have Soren Daugbjerg of Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects with us on the 28th of November, speaking on the award-winning psychiatric hospital in Denmark by Karlsson Architects and Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects. The hospital is a 2016 winner of the Architectural Review Healthcare Award and sets new design standards for mental health care on the physical environment.

Hear Soren speak on new directions in Danish healthcare design at our conference at Women's College Hospital on Nov. 28!

https://goo.gl/gbhBdB

‘The New Psychiatric Hospital in Slagelse by Karlsson and VLA presents a bold future for the entire type’

Our Conference at Women's College Hospital is exactly one week away!

Our event, on Tuesday Nov. 28, will bring together thought leaders, healthcare leaders and experts to share cutting-edge case studies, trends and research that are reshaping the way we plan, design and construct healthcare environments to meet the needs of patients into the future.

Register for the event at our website, http://cchf.net/events/toronto/.

We're happy to announce that CAMH - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will be a great feature of our Toronto Conference on Nov. 28.

Jennifer Clarke, Executive Director of Planning, Design and Operational Improvement and Marcia Merdano, Project Director at CAMH will speak alongside Stantec Architecture Ltd's Ron Mar and Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc.'s Alice Liang about the challenges and lessons learned in advancing design excellence to improve care while working through the Alternative Financing Process. Their panel is definitely worth attending!

If you haven't registered yet, do so at our website, www.cchf.net/Toronto!

Transforming Healthcare Environments, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto » CCHF Event description Dear Healthcare Leaders! This one-day session at the new Women’s College Hospital brings together thought leaders, healthcare leaders and experts to share cutting-edge case studies, trends and research that are reshaping the way we plan, design and construct healthcare environments...

Here are a few great shots of some of our conference attendees! Thanks again to everyone who came out on October 26/27! We miss you already.

Now it's time to get excited for our conference at Women's College Hospital on November 28! Register at our website, cchf.net.