Illuminating Care: Lighting Strategies for Modern Hospitals (6 Credits)
Topics Include:
- Trends in Healthcare: Optimizing Patient Outcomes, Infection Control, Tunable White
- Behavioral Health Lighting Requirements
- ICU/NICU/PICU, Cardiac Cath
- Labor, Delivery, Recovery & Postpartum
- MRI Lighting: Ensuring Accurate Scans
- Patient Room Lighting and Controls
- Studies on Lighting and Its Effects on Patient Health
- RP-29 Review and Practices (IES)
- Kirlin Factory Tour
- Kirlin New Products and Sneak Peek of Future Products
Healing Lights: Tailoring Lighting Solutions for Behavioral Health Environments (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Major trends in Behavioral Health design
- Specific requirements for light fixtures in these facilities
- Best practices for lighting various spaces in Behavioral Health projects
- The psychological impact lighting has on mental health
Illuminating Care: Lighting Strategies for Modern Hospitals (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Major trends in healthcare lighting
- Importance of infection control
- Deep dive into the lighting needs of 10 critical areas of the hospital
- IES recommended practice for healthcare facilities
- Clinical benefits of recessed exam lighting
Beyond Brightness: Exploring the Advantages of Remote-Mounted LED Drivers (1 AIA or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Environments that require or benefit from remote-mounted LED power supplies
- Best practices for system design and configuration
- Control options for dimming, color-changing, and scene synchronization
- Radio frequency filtering in the MRI suite and laboratory spaces
- Frequently forgotten questions
Enlightening Care: Lighting Design in MRI Suites, Stand-Up MRIs, and Hybrid ORs (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and how does it work?
- Special requirements of the MRI suite
- Three necessary components for successful MRI lighting
- Popular design techniques in the MRI suite
- Frequently forgotten questions
Color and Light: Color Rendering, CCT, and Tunable White (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Measuring color rendition with TM-30 and extended CRI
- An intro to color science and the black body curve
- Ideal CCT specification for various healthcare applications
- Control options for tunable white and circadian systems
- Color tuning vs. intensity tuning vs. stimulus tuning vs. circadian supporting static color
Humancentric Lighting and the WELL Standard (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Introduce the WELL Building Standard
- Identify the 10 concepts that comprise the WELL approach to occupant wellness
- Three levels of certification: Silver, Gold, & Platinum
- Deep dive into WELL’s pre-conditions and optimizations associated with “Light”