Barbara Huelat, FASID, AAHID, EDAC

Barbara Huelat, FASID, AAHID, EDAC

New Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Healing Design
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Barbara J. Huelat, AAHID / FASID /EDAC is nationally recognized for work in healing…

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  • Healing Design

    Alexandria, VA USA

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      Alexandria, Virginia

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      Alexandria, VA

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    United States

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    Alexandria, Virginia, United States

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    Alexandria, VA

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Education

  • Graphic

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Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member

    Alexandria Commission on Aging

    Health

Licenses & Certifications

  • Planetree Visionary Design Network

    Planetree

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  • EDAC

    Evidence Based Design

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  • AAHID

    American Academy of Healthcare Interior Design

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  • NCIDQ National Council of Interior Design Qualification

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  • Evidence Based Design EDAC

    The Center for Health Design

  • Planetree Visionary Design Network

    Planetree

Publications

  • Taming the Chaos of Dementia: A Caregiver's Guide to Interventions that Make a Difference

    Rowman & Littlefield

    his amazing, empathetic, book covers not only the experiences through personal stories but provides evidence-based insights and solutions to help all caregivers cope with the process of caring for a loved one with dementia, or “our person” as so poignantly referenced in Taming the Chaos of Dementia.

  • Healing Environments What's the Proof

    Medezyn

    Healing environments continue to be defined with new qualities including safety, security, accessibility, sustainability and now evidence-based design. Using evidence to validate the use of a particular design has become the tool of choice. Evidence shows how to mitigate barriers; evidence shows that better lighting, art programs and even water features improve patient outcomes - and reduce operating costs. This book defines the characteristics of a healing environment, listing ten essential…

    Healing environments continue to be defined with new qualities including safety, security, accessibility, sustainability and now evidence-based design. Using evidence to validate the use of a particular design has become the tool of choice. Evidence shows how to mitigate barriers; evidence shows that better lighting, art programs and even water features improve patient outcomes - and reduce operating costs. This book defines the characteristics of a healing environment, listing ten essential components that make a difference in health outcomes, place, change people, comfort, senses, knowledge, empowerment, biophilia, spirit and experiences. Readers are challenged to look differently at humanity;s natural ability to heal and to integrate supporting evidence.

  • Healing Environments, Design for the Mind, Body & Spirit

    Medezyn

    What are healing environments? They are places of comfort and dignity for the body, as well as enjoyment and pleasure from our sense. They provide knowledge to erase the fears of the unknown and empower the mind to find healing. They embrace the spirit found in nature and in our God as experienced through the celebration of life.

    Suppose you have just been diagnosed with a life threatening disease. Can the environment you immerse yourself in support the healing process? Likewise…

    What are healing environments? They are places of comfort and dignity for the body, as well as enjoyment and pleasure from our sense. They provide knowledge to erase the fears of the unknown and empower the mind to find healing. They embrace the spirit found in nature and in our God as experienced through the celebration of life.

    Suppose you have just been diagnosed with a life threatening disease. Can the environment you immerse yourself in support the healing process? Likewise can the exposure to abusive places of sickening smells, loud noises from traffic, emergency vehicles, the beeps and consonant hum of technology make us ill? Environments can harm and environments can heal. Healing environments are a body-mind, spirit link to health.

    We are all healers and patients. Throughout our lives we provide compassion and love as healers. At other times we seek healing from a simple need for a hug when feeling down, a check-up at the dentist or the challenge of a major life threatening event requiring medical intervention. We are at the brink of reclaiming our natural state of health, and have a stake in the outcome. Healing environments can provide a major role in improving those outcomes.

Courses

  • Healing Environments for Home Work & Play

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Projects

  • ER One at Washington Hospital Center

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    ER One a four phased design for mass causalities addresses outcomes in positive distractions, bacteria mitigation, noise mitigation and staff work flow in the emergency department environment. The project is a Pebble Research project representing best practices and evidence based design.

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  • Katzen Cancer Research Center

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    Healing environment providing the latest technology, current research, best practices and state of the art medicine. The healing environment is a powerful place that sets the stage for a healing journey.This cancer center was carefully planned, designed and implemented to create a healing environment which is destined to improve the quality of the journey.

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  • MIND Lab at MedStar's Institute for Innovation

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    Beyond Healing Environments
    The Mind Lab – Design for Innovation
    Engagement: MedStar Health is a not-for profit healthcare organization. It operates more than 120 entities, including the hospitals in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. They opened a new executive headquarters in Columbia featuring a “Mind Lab” for innovations. The space was to be a hi-tech environment to engage MedStar leadership to “think differently”. This engagement was an opportunity to use Human-centric…

    Beyond Healing Environments
    The Mind Lab – Design for Innovation
    Engagement: MedStar Health is a not-for profit healthcare organization. It operates more than 120 entities, including the hospitals in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. They opened a new executive headquarters in Columbia featuring a “Mind Lab” for innovations. The space was to be a hi-tech environment to engage MedStar leadership to “think differently”. This engagement was an opportunity to use Human-centric design for leadership innovation.
    Humancentric Design: Design that surrounds and influences our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Research tells us that innovation is a communicative, human-centric process that results design by intent that combination of natural element, places of collaboration, flexibility of space, smart technology, play, attraction and reflection. These influences became cohesive into MedStar’s Mind Lab program.

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Honors & Awards

  • Center for Health Design 2023 Changemaker Award

    Center for Health Design

    For her passion, dedication and leadership as a prolific design practitioner of 40-plus years, a vocal advocate for better care, and an inspiration to others to use design to make a difference in the world, Barbara Huelat, CHID, FASID, EDAC is being recognized as The Center for Health Design’s 2023 Changemaker. Learn more about Barbara's career and impact on healthcare design.

  • ASID Fellow

    ASID

  • Project Design Awards

    ASID DC Metro Chapter

    ASID 2015 First Place Healthcare GWMFA Dermatology Suite
    ASID 2011 First Place Healthcare ER One, Washington Hospital
    ASID 2009 First Place Healthcare Potomac Hospital
    ASID 2009 First Place Education Millis Children's Museum on Health
    ASID 2016 First Place Healthcare High Point Regional Cancer Center

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