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2014 Health Guidelines Revision Committee

Executive Committee

Chair
Douglas S. Erickson, FASHE, CHFM, HFDP, CHC
TME, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri

Vice Chair
Kurt A. Rockstroh, FAIA, FACHA
Steffian Bradley Architects
Boston, Massachusetts

Chair Emeritus
Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA, FACHA, FHFI
HKS, Inc.
Dallas, Texas

Steering Committee

Maria Allo, MD, FACS, FCCM
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Los Altos, California

Chad E. Beebe, AIA, SASHE
American Society for Healthcare Engineering
Chicago, Illinois

Ramona Conner, RN, MSN, CNOR
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Denver, Colorado

Linda Lashley Dickey, RN, MPH, CIC
UC Irvine Health
Orange, California

Richard D. Hermans, PE, HFDP
Daikin Applied
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Thomas M. Jung, RA
Albany, New York

James T. Lussier
The Lussier Center/TLC
Bend, Oregon

James Merrill, PE
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Baltimore, Maryland

R. Gregg Moon, AIA, ACHA, EDAC
Kaim Associates, Inc.
Kingwood, Texas

Jane M. Rohde, AIA, FIIDA, ACHA, AAHID, LEED AP
JSR Associates, Inc.
Ellicott City, Maryland

Wade Rudolph, CBET, CHFM
Mayo Clinic Health System – Franciscan Healthcare
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Arthur St. André, MD, FCCM
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Washington, D.C.

David B. Uhaze, RA
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Trenton, New Jersey

Walter Vernon, PE
Mazzetti
San Francisco, California

HGRC Members

Paul Evans Acre, PE, CHFM
Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services
Little Rock, Arkansas

Gene D. Barber, RA, CHFM
TriHealth Hospitals
Cincinnati, Ohio

Collin Beers, AIA
Stantec Architecture
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Charis Bengston, LEED AP BD+C
Mercy Health Ministries
Chesterfield, Missouri

Roland M. Binker, AIA
AECOM
Arlington, Virginia

Sharon J. Bogdon
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

William J. Bonn, III, NCARB
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Daniel Buehler, AIA, JD
AmSurg Corporation
Nashville, Tennessee

Byron Burlingame, MS, RN, CNOR
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Denver, Colorado

Christopher M. Burney, MS, CHFM, CPE
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi

Kenneth N. Cates, SASHE, CHC
Northstar Management Company
St. Louis, Missouri

Jon F. Cechvala, AIA
Eppstein Uhen Architects
Madison, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Hospital Engineering Association

Savita Chandragiri, AIA, NCARB
Arizona Department of Health Services
Phoenix, Arizona

Robert A. Cochran, AIA, FACHA
Chicago, Illinois

James Comegys, RA, NYSCEO, LEED AP BD+C
New York State Department of Health
Troy, New York

Michael D. Coppedge, AIA, ACHA
Weller Architects PC
Albuquerque, New Mexico

James R. Crabb, PE, HFDP
PerryCrabb, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia

Glenn Crow, PhD, MArch, RA
Texas Department of State Health Services
Austin, Texas

William H. Culver
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Joseph M. DeRosier, PE, CSP
University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety
Ann Arbor, Michigan

John M. Dombrowski, PE, HFDP, CPMP
H. F. Lenz Company
Erie, Pennsylvania

Brian Madden Dubey, RA, CSI, ACHA
Health Care Codes International
Baltimore, Maryland

Owen B. Evans, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi

Patrice A. Fagen, RN
Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals
Des Moines, Iowa

Oslec B. Fernandez, RA, CGC, LEED BD+C
St. Joseph’s Hospital – BayCare Health System
Tampa, Florida

Glenn S. A. Gall, AIA
California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
Sacramento, California

Roger W. Gehrke
Boise, Idaho
Idaho Society for Healthcare Engineering

Daniel Gent
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts

Warren N. Goodwin, FAIA
American Program Management, LLC
Brentwood, Tennessee

Thomas C. Gormley, CHC
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

David A. Green
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Business Success Center
Oshkosh, Wisconsin

James R. (Skip) Gregory, NCARB
Health Facility Consulting, LLC
Tallahassee, Florida

Richard Grulich, RA, LEED AP BD+C
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Alexandria, Virginia

Brenda J. Hackett, MPH, CIC
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Kendall K. Hall, MD, MS, FACEP
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Rockville, Maryland

Cory N. Hamilton
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington

Jeffrey M. Hardin, PE
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, CEHNC-EDX
Chicago, Illinois

Maurene Harvey, RN
Consultants in Critical Care, Inc.
Glenbrook, Nevada

Debra Hawks, MPH
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Washington, D.C.

Robert J. Heidelbaugh, AIA, NCARB
WellSpan Health
York, Pennsylvania

Todd W. Hite, PE
Indiana State Department of Health
Indianapolis, Indiana

Karen K. Hoffmann, RN, MS, CIC, FSHEA
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Andrea V. Hyde, AAHID, MDCID
International Healthcare Design and Planning Consultant
Towson, Maryland

Gerald R. Inglett, RA
Indian Health Service
Dallas, Texas

Thomas W. Jaeger, PE
Jaeger & Associates, LLC
Great Falls, Virginia
American Health Care Association

Walter L. Jones, III
Lend Lease
Brentwood, Tennessee

John P. Kouletsis, AIA, EDAC
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, California

Shannon Kraus, FAIA, FACHA
HKS Architects
Washington, D.C.

Tom C. Krejcie, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Roger Leib, AIA, ACHA
Leib & Leib, Inc., and Develop, LLC
Los Angeles, California

Tom Leonidas, PE
Wood Harbinger
Bellevue, Washington

Rebecca J. Lewis, AIA, FACHA, CID
DSGW Architects
Duluth, Minnesota

Steven C. Lewis
North Carolina Department of Health Service Regulation
Raleigh, North Carolina

Todd M. Liebert, AIA, NCARB
Clark Patterson Lee
Rochester, New York

William E. Lindeman, AIA
WEL Designs PLC
Tucson, Arizona

Steve Lindsey
Garden Spot Village
New Holland, Pennsylvania

Charles S. Maggio, AIA
Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.
New York, New York

Eileen Malone, RN, MSN, MS, EDAC
Mercury Healthcare Consulting, LLC
Alexandria, Virginia

CDR Stephen B. Martin, Jr., PE
CDC/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Morgantown, West Virginia

Kevin A. Matuszewski, AIA
Cannon Design
Chicago, Illinois

Mary Matz, MSPH, CPE, CSPHP
Veterans Health Administration Office of Public Health
Tampa, Florida

Robert Mayer, PhD
Hulda B. & Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation
Chicago, Illinois

Rita Rael Meek, RA
New Mexico Department of Health
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Farhad Memarzadeh, PhD, PE
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Bart Miller, CHFM, CHC, CHSP, CHEP
St. Mary Medical Center
Langhorne, Pennsylvania

Scott Miller, AIA, FACHA
Moody Nolan, Inc.
Columbus, Ohio

Terry Miller
GBA
Franklin, Tennessee

Richard D. Moeller, PE, FASHE, HFDP, CHC
CDi Engineers
Lynnwood, Washington

Margaret Montgomery, RN, MSN
American College of Emergency Physicians
Irving, Texas

Gaius G. Nelson, RA
Nelson-Tremain Partnership Architecture and Design for Aging
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Paul T. Ninomura, PE, HFDP
Indian Health Service
Seattle, Washington

Rick J. Ottolino, CHC, AIA
OWH
St. Louis, Missouri

Shawna Perry, MD, FACEP
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Mechanicsville, Virginia
American College of Emergency Medicine

Francis M. Pitts, FAIA, FACHA
architecture+
Troy, New York
American College of Healthcare Architects

Donald Pyskacek, AIA
Universal Health Systems Building Solutions
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

John Reiling, MHA, PhD
Safe by Design, LLC
St. Paul, Minnesota

Chris P. Rousseau, PE
Newcomb & Boyd, Consultants and Engineers
Atlanta, Georgia

Louis C. Saksen, AIA, FHFI
Parkland Health and Hospital System
Dallas, Texas

Melissa K. Schaefer, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia

James D. Scott, PE
Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Lansing, Michigan

R. Clay Seckman, PE
Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.
Nashville, Tennessee

D. Paul Shackelford, MD, FACOG
Vidant Medical Center and Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

David M. Sine, DrBE, ARM, CSP, CPHRM
Safety Logic Systems
Ann Arbor, Michigan
National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems

Judith Smith, MHA
Smith Hager Bajo, Inc.
Ashburn, Virginia

Thomas Smith, CHPA, CPP
UNC Health Care
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety

David R. Soens, PE, RA
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Madison, Wisconsin

Jo M. Solet, PhD, OTR/L
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joseph J. Strauss, AIA, ACHA
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Andrew J. Streifel
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dana E. Swenson, PE, MBA
UMass Memorial Health Care
Worcester, Massachusetts

Ellen Taylor, AIA, MBA, EDAC
The Center for Health Design
Concord, California

Phillip A. Thomas, AIA, AHCA
Phil Thomas + Associates
Fort Smith, Arkansas

Dan R. Thompson, MD, MA, MCCM
Albany Medical College
Albany, New York

George R. Tingwald, MD, AIA, ACHA
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, California

Pamela Triplett, RA
Oregon Health Authority
Salem, Oregon

Kevin M. Tuohey
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety

Enrique J. Unanue, AIA, NCARB, ACHA
Code Services, LLC
Springfield, Illinois

Christopher Upton, AIA, FAAMA, LEED AP, EDAC
Upton Healthcare Solutions
Tampa, Florida

Marjorie E. Vincent, RN, MBA, CASC
The Garvin Group
Silver Spring, Maryland

Laurie Waggener, RRT, IIDA, AAHID, EDAC
WHR Architects, Inc.
Houston, Texas

Pamela Ward-O’Malley, AIA, LEED AP, CHC
Gilbane Building Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Robert White, MD
Memorial Hospital
South Bend, Indiana

John Williams
Washington State Department of Health
Olympia, Washington

Paula J. Wright, RN, CIC
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Wayne P. Young, AIA, NCARB
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Tallahassee, Florida

Additional Acknowledgments


Listed below are the HGRC focus and task group chairs who ably led the committee members in their work; we thank them for the time they dedicated to seeing this project through. Those listed below without credentials are all members of the HGRC and appear with full identification in the list of HGRC members above.

Focus Group Chairs


Ambulatory Care:                      Bill Bonn, Marge Vincent
Architectural Details:                 Gerald Inglett, Mike Coppedge
Diagnostic/Treatment Areas:     Margaret Montgomery
Dialysis advisers:                       Teri B. Spencer, RN, TB Spencer Consulting LLC
                                                   Mariya Kovryga Kornick, CIC, UC Irvine Healthcare
Facility Management:                 Wade Rudolph
Hospital Nursing Units:               John Kouletsis, Eileen Malone, John Reiling
Infection Prevention:                   Linda Dickey
OB/Pediatric Facilities:                Paul Shackelford
Operating Rooms:                       Byron Burlingame
PDC and Commissioning:           Ken Cates        
Specialty Hospitals:                     Robert Cochran, Pam Triplett, Patrice Fagen

Specialty Subgroups

Acoustics Working Group


Kurt Rockstroh, AWG Steering Committee
David M. Sykes, Acoustics Research Council, Chair
William J. Cavanaugh, FASA, F/INCE, Acoustics Research Council, Co-Founder
Daniel M. Horan, LEED AP BD+C, Acoustics Research Council, Secretary
Gregory C. Tocci PE, FASA, F/INCE, Acoustics Research Council, Technical Co-Chair
Paul Barach, MD, MPH
Benjamin C. Davenny, LEED AP BD+C, Acoustics Research Council
Lawrence S. Finegold, International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise
Jeffrey Fullerton, LEED AP BD+C, Acoustics Research Council
Mandy Kachur, PE, Institute of Noise Control Engineering
Jean-François Latour, Acoustics Research Council
Edward Logsdon, Acoustics Research Council
Gary Madaras, PhD, ASA Technical Committee on Healthcare Facilities
Kenric Van Wyk, PE, Acoustics Research Council

Cancer Treatment Facilities


Shannon Kraus, Chair
Collin Beers
Brenda Hackett
Bryan Langlands, AIA, NBBJ
Rick Ottolino
Sheila Ruder, AIA, HKS

Children’s Hospitals


Judy Smith, Chair
Chad Beebe
Collin Beers
Owen B. Evans
Debra Hawks
Todd Hite
Bruce Komiske, MHA, Fareri Associates
Laura Poltronieri, AIA, Poltronieri Tang and Associates
Daniel Rauch, MD, American Academy of Pediatrics
Louis Saksen
Ellen Schwalenstocker, PhD, MBA, Children’s Hospital Association (formerly National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions)
Paul Shackelford
Mardelle Shepley, DArch, FAIA, FACHA, Texas A&M University
Joseph Sprague
Enrique Unanue
Christopher Upton
Pamela Ward-O’Malley
Robert White

Commissioning


John Dombrowski, Chair
Doug Erickson
David Green
Mark A. Kenneday, MBA, CHFM, FASHE, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Richard Grulich
Dick Moeller
Steven R. “Rusty” Ross, PE, LEED AP BD+C, CxA, SSRCx®
Clay Seckman
David Soens
Ed Tinsley, PE, CEM, LEED AP, HFDP, TME, Inc.
Walt Vernon

Dental Facilities


Rebecca Lewis

Imaging


George Tingwald, Chair
Joe Strauss
Tobias Gilk, RAD-Planning
Bill Rostenberg, FAIA, FACHA, ACHE, EDAC, Stantec

Information Technology


Tom Leonidas, Chair
Joe Grafton, PMP, Sutter Health
Scott Johnson
Don Kinser, PE, MBA, CPHIMS, EDI, Ltd.
Furley Lumpkin, City of Hope
Terry Miller
Tod Moore, RCDD, CDCD, Sparling
Shawna Perry
Arthur St. André
Louis Saksen
Walt Vernon

Residential Facilities


Jane Rohde, Chair
David Green, Associate Chair

Rehabilitation Facilities


Roland Binker

Surfaces and Furnishings


Andrea Hyde, Co-Chair
Eileen Malone, Co-Chair
James Aberle, AIA, Indian Health Service
Paul Acre
Judene Bartley
Linda Dickey
Richard Grulich
Debra D. Harris, Ph.D., RAD Consultants
Alison Jones, LeVino Jones Medical Interiors
Roger Leib
Linda Lybert, LSB Strategic Accounts
Rita Rael Meek
Rick Ottolino
Mary Porter, VeenendaalCave, Inc.
Jane Rohde
Renee Schreiner, OSF Healthcare
Laurie Waggener
AAHID Surfacing and Furnishings Subcommittee
 Peg Creasy, ASID, AAHID, LEED GA
 Barbara Dellinger, AAHID
 Jennifer Fink, AAHID, IIDA
 Lyn Hayslett, AAHID, ASID, IIDA, LEED AP
 Laura Hild, AAHID, HKS Inc.
 Jain Malkin, CID, AAHID, EDAC
 Marleen Manges, CID, LEED AP, EDAC
 Sheila Semrou, AAHID, ASID, Assoc. AIA
 Michele Woodard, CID, EDAC

Sustainable Design


Walt Vernon, Chair
Richard Moeller
Jane Rohde

Part Group Chairs


Part 1:              Roger Gehrke
Part 2a:            Kendall Hall
Part 2b:            Dana Swenson
Part 3:              Rebecca Lewis

Task Group Chairs


Architectural Review:      Rebecca Lewis, Scott Miller
Area vs. Clearances:      Jon Cechvala
Functional Program:       Kurt Rockstroh, Chad Beebe, Tom Jung
Location Language:        Skip Gregory
Nursery Bassinet:           Paul Shackelford
Sterile Processing:          Ramona Conner

Standing Committee Chairs


Correlation:                         Gregg Moon
Cost-Benefit Analysis:         Thomas Gormley, Pamela Ward-O’Malley
Glossary:                             Maria Allo
Interpretations:                     Doug Erickson, Chad Beebe
Research & Development:  Jim Lussier, Walt Vernon


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