How a Holistic Healing Community became a Reality – Designing Plan - The S/L/A/M Collaborative, INC.

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Welcome,

This is the registration for The S/L/A/M Collaborative, INC. workshop "How a Holistic Healing Community became a Reality – Designing Planetree Environments"

Friday, April 9 at 1:30PM – 2:45PM.

Workshop description:

Our journey at SLAM Collaborative began more than 20 years ago with a vision – comprised of institutional commitment and thoughtful design, healthcare facilities could put patients before process, people before technology, and healing before “interventions.” Inspired by the Planetree™ philosophy of care and working closely with the progressive leadership of Griffin Hospital, healthcare architects at The S/L/A/M Collaborative eagerly embraced the challenge of creating what is now recognized as a prototype - one of the first acute-care community hospitals in the country to implement the environmental and organizational cultural changes that promote holistic healing and patient/ family involvement in medical care. It is our belief that “Planetree” is at the origins of today’s healthcare industry embracing the process of evidence based design - basing decisions about the environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.

The Griffin Hospital has been recognized as the ‘Model” patient-centered environment with acknowledgements and awards from Healthcare Facilities Design, Modern Healthcare, and the American Institute of Architects, The Center for Health Design, American Society of Healthcare Engineers, the Boston Society of Architects and the New England Healthcare Assembly. For more than two decades, SLAM has been privileged to partner with Griffin Hospital on a number of projects and other major Planetree™ institutions across the country. Most recently, Griffin Hospital and SLAM have been awarded First Place in the Healthcare Environments Awards 2009, sponsored by the Center for Health Design and Contract Magazine, for the Griffin Cancer Care Center.

Our healthcare practice is founded on principles that embrace creating patient centered care and how this philosophy helps to define the built environments we create. Our workshop will share SLAM’s process and tools we utilized along our journey - sharing our history with the development of the “Planetree” philosophy; how we incorporate these tools into our process of what we do; how it makes a difference, how our clients benefit and what the “real” world benefits to the community/patients - how a holistic healing community became a reality.