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Call for entries

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

Healthcare
Environment Awards
2017
Deadline July 11, 2017

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 evidencebased 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 Conceptual Entries as well
as Student Entries
* A demonstrated response to the goals mentioned
in the project description.
* Visual and graphic images that support an
environment capable of improving the quality
of healthcare
Recognition
* Winners will be announced at The Center for Health
Design's awards presentation during the 2017
Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in November
2017 in Orlando, Florida.
* One award will be presented to each winning project.
* Winners will be featured in the November 2017 issue
of Contract magazine, which focuses on healthcare
design, and on The Center for Health Design's
website: healthdesign.org.
* Only those that win or receive honorable mention
in each category will be notified.
Rules for Entry
* Only entries submitted electronically at
contractdesign.com/healthcareawards will
be accepted.
* The decisions of the judges are final. The judges
reserve the right to make no award.
* Professional entries of built work must be interiors
that are fully operational no earlier than September 1,
2015, and no later than July 1, 2017. Student entries
must have been completed in either the 2015-16
or 2016-17 school years. Entries must not have been

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 2017 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference.

entered in previous Healthcare Environment
Awards competitions.
* Professional entries of built completed work must
include a minimum of six photographs, as well as a
minimum of one floor plan, all submitted in .jpg format.
* Conceptual submittals and student entries must
include .jpg images of renderings or photographs
of models.
* Each professional built and conceptual entry
must include a $250 entry fee. Student entries
have a $25 fee.
Jurors
Each entry will be reviewed by a jury of designers
and architects with expertise in healthcare design,
including one representative of The Center
for Health Design.
Deadline
All entries, complete with payment, must
be received electronically at contractdesign.com/
healthcareawards by Tuesday, July 11, 2017.
For questions, email Associate Editor Hayley
Arsenault at harsenault@contractdesign.com
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