PART 1

Diana Spellman, President of Spellman Brady & Company, an award winning interior planning firm specializing in timeless meaningful environments in healthcare, senior living and higher education is our guest today on the podcast. In part one of today’s episode, Diana and Cheryl discuss Spellman & Brady’s initial response to the pandemic. Diana shares, “We immediately created a set of standing weekly meetings and we formed several teams that would address what we, internally, called, ‘The COVID-19 Response.’” This and more on how Spellman & Brady are making important and necessary changes in their senior living and healthcare design protocols, post COVID-19 to ensure the safety of everyone.

In Part 1 of Cheryl’s conversation with Diana Spellman they discuss:

• Diana’s experience of being a two-time cancer survivor and how that time in her life informed her experience of what is currently happening in the world today, both personally and professionally.
• It’s now a new world with new protocols for the healthcare space and Spellman & Brady are currently working with senior living communities–one of the most vulnerable populations in this pandemic. Now that nearly everything has been changed by COVID, how is senior living design changing?
• How did Diana and your team initially respond to COVID-19 and what were some of the first things that happened?
• What conversations are happening right now at Spellman & Brady?
• The process of how Spellman & Brady went about reevaluating interior finishes to make sure they were now appropriate to use during the current climate and moving forward.
• What’s it like to work with senior living clients right now?

This program is brought to you by Porcelanosa who extend their heartfelt appreciation for your support of this podcast. Stay safe and be well. To learn more about Porcelanosa, visit http://porcelanosa.com.

Thank you to our industry partner, The Center for Health Design. To learn more about CHD’s new program MakingRoom, Connecting hotels and hospitals with urgent needs for space, please visit, https://www.healthdesign.org/makingroom.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

• The American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers
• The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how to become a Certified Healthcare Interior Designer®  by visiting the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers at: https://aahid.org/.

Connect to a community interested in supporting clinician involvement in design and construction of the built environment by visiting The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design at https://www.nursingihd.com/

In part 2 of Cheryl’s interview with Diana Spellman, President of Spellman Brady & Company, their conversation moves to the firm’s design philosophy and how materials and surfaces play a key role in creating S&B’s signature, purposeful and deeply meaningful environments. Diana shares, “Twenty-eight years ago, our philosophy was, ‘How do we create adjunct staff that bridge the gaps between the owners and the architects, and the medical equipment, or the senior living items that need to be within the space?’” Listen to Diana’s answer to this question and more on the changing face of healthcare design post COVID-19 in part 2 of today’s episode.

In Part 2 of Cheryl’s conversation with Diana Spellman, you will learn:

• How Spellman & Brady’s design philosophy has evolved over the years and how materials and surfaces play a key role in creating the firm’s signature, purposeful and deeply meaningful environments.
• How selection of materials are changing and what new criteria Diana and her team are now looking for?
• Is there a new concern for Spellman and Brady with having to possibly compromise beauty in the design of a space with new CDC guidelines?
• Can hospitality in the senior living community remain with new safety guidelines?
• What does Diana mean when she says, “Does it wear like iron and is it a timeless design?”
• Diana discusses the article she wrote in “Facility Care” entitled “Designing for the Senses.” Learn what happened when Diana visited her dying mother in the hospital and what the term “multisensory holistic approach to design” means.
• How will technology play a role in healthcare design and senior living communities?

This program is brought to you by Porcelanosa who extend their heartfelt appreciation for your support of this podcast. Stay safe and be well. To learn more about Porcelanosa, visit http://porcelanosa.com.

Thank you to our industry partner, The Center for Health Design. To learn more about CHD’s new program MakingRoom, Connecting hotels and hospitals with urgent needs for space, please visit, https://www.healthdesign.org/makingroom.

Additional support for this podcast comes from our industry partners:

• The American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers
• The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

Learn more about how to become a Certified Healthcare Interior Designer®  by visiting the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers at: https://aahid.org/.

Connect to a community interested in supporting clinician involvement in design and construction of the built environment by visiting The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design at https://www.nursingihd.com/

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