Our Northern Alberta Chapter will be hosting the CRC this year, and our April lunch meeting will be one of the many exciting activities surrounding this event.
What is this CRC thing anyway?
ASHRAE NAC, Edmonton is proud to present Dr. Stephanie Taylor, MD from Vermont. She will discuss HVAC Designs specific to Healthcare-Associated Infections and Hospital Indoor Air Quality. See below for further info!
When: Thursday April 30th, 2020
Time: Registration at 11:45 pm, Lunch at 12 pm
Where: Sutton Place Hotel, Edmonton, 10235-101 Street
Speaker Topic: Healthcare-Associated Infections and Hospital Indoor Air Quality
Price: $50 ASHRAE member / $65 Non-member / $20 Student
Invite to come soon!
As new research clarifies how essential the built environment is to patient healing and employee health and productivity Dr. Taylor will communicate clear and up to date research on how indoor air management relates to patient healing, length of stay and hospital profits. Given the exorbitant cost of healthcare, the frightening increase in antibiotic resistance, and the epidemic of patient harm from new infections, these insights offer exciting new tools that cannot be ignored. In addition, this study shows that the current focus on hand hygiene and surface disinfection to decrease transmission of infections will never be adequate without considering the added dimension of indoor management. For those still unconvinced about the value, the business case for these interventions will be presented. Best of all, these findings apply to all building types, not just hospitals.
Dr. Taylor Bio- Dr. Stephanie Taylor received her MD from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts in 1984. For the past several decades, she has practiced clinical medicine and done academic research in cellular growth mechanisms. She is increasingly concerned about patients harmed by new infections during their in-patient treatments. Determined to gain a better understanding of the impact of the built environment on patient well-being, she returned to school and obtained her Master's Degree in Architecture and Engineering from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. After working for several years in a healthcare design architecture firm, she founded Taylor Healthcare Consulting, Inc., in order to focus on designing, building and maintaining hospitals to better support patient healing. She quickly learned that many of the building and indoor air characteristics that affect people in hospitals also influenced the health of all people in buildings.