Healthcare Design - May 2017 - 9

EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Hank Adams

CULTURE CLUB

Organizations seeking to attract the next
generation of healthcare design professionals
must look inside before looking out
By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis

John W. Andrews
Carolyn BaRoss
Jody Barry

PERKINS+WILL

PERKINS EASTMAN

EARL S WENSSON ASSOCIATES

Sheila F. Cahnman
JUMPG ARDEN CONSULTING LLC

Thomas W. Chessum
I ATTENDED A conference recently where a pan-

el of students presented a session on the next
generation of healthcare design and construction, an opportunity to hear the perspectives of
those who will be charged with leading this industry in years to come and their ideas on how to
do it. The room was packed.
I'm sure many of the professionals there were
drawn to the idea of hearing some new takes on
old problems, but I'm also sure at least a couple
were intrigued by the idea of finding a new hire.
Who can blame them? It's a constant need. As a Gen Xer, I can easily grow
tired of the attention paid to millennials, but even I can't argue the numbers. Someone must replace retiring baby boomers in every single industry out there, and there aren't enough of us between age 35 and 50 (give or
take) to get the job done.
The topic came up again recently when I was in Nashville for the first of
three Healthcare Design CitySCENE networking events being held this
year (see photos on page 18). Prior to the event, our friends at ESa kindly
opened the doors to their stunning new office in the trendy Gulch district
for us to host an exclusive roundtable with our CitySCENE sponsors and
a select group of industry professionals. The focus was the evolution of the
project team, and high on our list of issues to cover was not only attracting
millennials to healthcare design but engaging them and retaining them.
One example of how to do it was right outside the conference room doors.
ESa built its office around supporting collaboration, mentoring, work-life
balance, and giving back to the community-and a very engaged, very dedicated, and very bright young designer gushed all about it at our CitySCENE
networking event that evening. It sounds like it's working, to me.
As I chatted with another attendee, he described similar efforts at his company, noting that talent acquisition efforts weren't about identifying and
implementing a strategy but about creating a culture that attracts young
professionals and keeps them there. That's the thing, though-culture is a
strategy. Just read what HDR's Hank Adams shared about his firm's recruitment and retention efforts in our special report on healthcare design
business challenges and solutions, "Inside Story," on page 22.
At Healthcare Design, we hope to be part of the solution, too. That's what
CitySCENE is all about: connecting newcomers to the industry with seasoned veterans in a casual atmosphere, where knowledge and maybe a
few business cards can be exchanged. For more, visit HCDmagazine.com/
cityscene. I hope to see you at one soon. 

LEO A DALY

ADVENTIST CARE CENTERS

Jeffrey Brand
Sam Burnette

HDR

CO ARCHITECTS

James Crispino
ATELIER FOR HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE

Christine Hester Devens
Mary Frazier

AECOM

EWINGCOLE

Jocelyn Lum Frederick
TSOI/KOBUS & ASSOCIATES

Natalie Miovski Hagerty
THE CHILDREN'S HOS PITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

Laurel Harrison
Walter Jones

STANTEC

METROHEALTH SYSTEM

Julie Kent

TRINITY HEALTH

Michael Lied
Jain Malkin

G BBN ARCHITECTS
J AIN MALKIN INC.

Mike McKay
Don Orndoff

ERDMAN

KAISER PERMANENTE

Diane R.K. Osan

FKP ARCHITECTS

Mark Patterson

SMITHGROUPJJR

Andrew Quirk

S KANSKA USA BUILDING

Pamela H. Redden
UNIVERSITY OF TEX AS , DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL

William D. Repichowskyj
E4H ARCHITECTURE

Joan Saba

NBBJ

Kim Shinn
TLC ENGINEERING FOR ARCHITECTURE

Janet H. Sisolak
UT MD ANDERS ON CANCER CENTER

Karl R. Sonnenberg
ZIMMER GUNS UL F RASCA ARCHITECTS LLP

Steve Stokes CALLISONRTKL
Jeffrey C. Stouffer
Joseph Strauss

HKS INC.

CLEVELAND CLINIC

Paul E. Strohm
Jocelyn Stroupe

HOK

CANNONDESIGN

Don Thomas

BWBR

Roger S. Ulrich
CHALMERS UNIVERS ITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Gary L. Vance

VANCE CONSULTING

MAY 2017

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