The San Antonio chapter of the American Institute of Architects Healthcare Knowledge Community (HcKg) is a local component of the Academy of Architecture for Health. The committee hopes to encourage dialog between healthcare architects, planners, designers, engineers, contractors and healthcare facility managers in and around the San Antonio area.
Vision: Connecting healthcare & design professionals through a shared resource of expertise. The HCR-KC is represented by a peer group of architects, engineers and other healthcare design professionals from across San Antonio. While the group continues to grow and evolve, it will always maintain its principle focus on serving as a resource of thought leadership in the ever changing world of healthcare.
HEALTHCARE DESIGN SYMPOSIUM COURSE SCHEDULE
Central Sterile Processing Design / SPD_101 / 2016
Presentation by Belimed
This course will review the effect of design on the health, safety and welfare of the staff working in and patients served by the Sterile Processing Department (SPD). There are many challenges today facing the clinical staff working in the SPD. An efficient and productive department beings with the layout of the work and circulation areas. This course will cover clinical best practices, space programming, efficient work area layout and how design can impact these areas positively or negatively.
Central Sterile Processing Design / SPD_201 / 2017
Presentation by Belimed
As a continuation from course SPD_101, this course will further review the effect of Sterile Processing design on the health, safety and welfare of its staff and the patients it serves. This course will cover key focus points required in the design of a Sterile Processing Department that are critical to ensuring the success of the department and the healthcare facility from both a quality and productivity perspective. Additionally, the course will review key department design choices to align with LEED certifications.
Critical Factors in OR Design
Presentation by Stryker
Describe an operating room’s key physical factors in the design of a safe, efficient workspace for physicians, staff, and patients.
Describe how design decisions can impact operating room workflow, sterile fields, and patient/staff traffic.
Explain why the ceiling in the operating room is valuable real estate and how clinical needs will drive the placement of fixed ceiling equipment.
Identify the key ceiling mounted equipment items, mounting locations, and their spatial relationships to walls, surgical table, and sterile field.
Critical Factors in ICU Design
Presentation by Stryker
Describe an Intensive Care Unit’s key physical factors in the design of a safe, efficient workspace for physicians, staff, and patients.
Explain how new bed-side procedures, required ancillary items, and additional caregivers create the need to reassess conventional ICU suite design.
Describe the benefits of using power booms in place of traditional headwall systems and how building flexibility into the design can encourage family support and accelerate healing.
Explain how Safe Patient Handling and Patient Lifting are critical to positive clinical outcomes, and how the Patient Lift systems can best be integrated into a design that includes power booms.
List the super structures that support the equipment, as this is critical to the overall success of the room design.
2023 Keystone Sponsors
2023 Sponsors
2023 Chair
Emily S.C. Rivera, AIA, ACHA, EDAC
2023 Co-Chair
Xavier Cantu, AIA, RID
Upcoming HcKg Events
HcKg: Healthcare Symposium
TSAOG Facility at Ridgewood
19138 U.S. Hwy 281 N, San Antonio, TX 78258
