The American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers certifies the knowledge, skills and abilities of healthcare interior designers. Board Certified Healthcare Interior Design certificants are distinguished and qualified by education, examination, and work experience to practice healthcare interior design. The AAHID appellation recognizes excellence, commitment and knowledge. It further distinguishes preeminent healthcare interior designers from other architects, designers, decorators, and interior designers.

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The Corporate Realty Design and Management Institute along with the IFMA Healthcare Council will present the EEE - Energy Econcomics and Environment Seminar around the county with the active participation of AAHID Certificants. These highly interactive seminars will take place at various locations around the country and are designed to solve the most practical and pressing problems and issues that professionals face in issues such as performance, reliability, sustainability, energy, cost, technology, materials, etc when constructing, maintaining or improving healthcare facilities. For more information click here. EEE Healthcare Seminar 2010.
From the study “the authors find that amenities have a positive and substantial effect on hospital choice. Interestingly, the effect of amenities is much larger than that of clinical quality. The authors estimate that a one-standard-deviation increase in the amenities measure raises a hospital’s demand by 38 percent, while a similar increase in the clinical quality measure raises demand by only 13 percent.” National Bureau of Economic Research Study
AAHID Industry Partner and carpet manufacturer Tandus has taken home the Antron Sustainability Award due to the performance and sustainability of its Powerbond. Even though this particular example is in a school, many of the durability and maintenance issues are very similar for healthcare. Tandus_-_Antron_Sustainability_Award.pdf
AAHID President Jocelyn Stroupe has published a major article in Health Facilities Management Magazine.
The article Keeping Patient Protection in Mind discusses both the design implications for HAI (Hospital Acquired Infection) and the FGI Guidelines.
AAHID is proud to announce a Partnership with InPro Corporation, manufacturer of fine interior and exterior architectural products. For more information InPro
AAHID and Nurture by Steelcase are proud to announce another year of the $7,500 graduate fellowship in healthcare interior design. Please download, print and/or distribute both the announcement and poster to all potential and interested parties.
2010_Announcement_Poster.pdf
AAHID_09-10_Graduate_Fellowship_full_annoucement.pdf
Last date to submit presentations for the 2011 ASHE-PDC Conference.
http://www.ashe.org/ashe/pdc/
Please join us for the largest design-related
regional expo and conference in the USA!
August 12-13, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
For more information, click here.