Winners Announced for Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo Distinction Awards

Winners of the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo 2022 Symposium Distinction Awards have been announced. The annual program recognizes design teams, projects and individuals who have made a profound contribution to the healthcare design industry. In addition, the award program recognizes the best and most innovative new industry-related products. For more details, visit hcarefacilities.com.

Winners and respective categories are:

Team Award

The Team Award focuses on a project team that has worked together to change the face of healthcare design through innovation, creativity, efficiency and teamwork.

Winner: Boston Children’s Hospital Hale Family Building

User-Centered Award

The User-Centered Award recognizes a healthcare design project or facility that best reflects and balances the requirements of patients, their family and practitioners.

Winner: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Healing Clinic

Adaptive Reuse Award

The Adaptive Reuse Award recognizes a healthcare design project that creatively achieved the reuse of an existing structure or space originally used for another purpose.

Winner: Hoag On-Demand Care & Innovation Center

Individual Award

The Individual Award seeks to distinguish a professional in the fields of healthcare planning, design, construction and operations that have displayed leadership and vision over a significant period of their career.

Winner: Tim Laboranti, AIA, ACHA, NCARB, LEED AP, healthcare design principal, BDA Architects

George Pressler Under 40 Award

The George Pressler Under 40 Award seeks the next generation of leaders and recognizes a young professional who has demonstrated leadership and vision within their organization or project teams.

Winner: Stephen Parker, senior associate, Stantec

Product Awards

The Product Awards recognize innovative new products that contribute to the enrichment of a healing environment through unique design and operational support.

Product Award Categories

Most Innovative

Winner: AkitaBox Facility Condition Assessment Software

Most Sustainable

Winner: Altro Tegulis

Architect’s Choice

Winner: Interface Desert Scapes