New Orleans – November 2nd, 2023 – Barbara Huelat, a prominent Human Centric Healthcare Designer, has been honored with the 2023 Changemaker Award by The Center for Health Design.
The Changemaker Award, sponsored by Mecho and chosen by The Center’s Board of Directors, recognizes individuals or organizations making a significant impact on the advancement of healthcare design worldwide. The Center for Health Design’s Award Ceremony will be held on Monday November 6, 2023 from 8-9:15 am. Keynote speakers will follow with an interview with Barbara Huelat by Sharon Pochran. A book signing for Huelat’s new book, Taming the Chaos of Dementia, will follow at the Center for Health Design Conference and Expo conference bookstore at the Ernest N Moil Convention Center in New Orleans.
With over 40 years of experience, Barbara Huelat has dedicated her career to creating healing environments and solving health challenges for more than 300 healthcare organizations globally. Her work focuses on human-centric designs that profoundly impact healing, human experiences, health outcomes, and cost-effectiveness.
Huelat’s portfolio encompasses an array of healthcare facilities, addressing complex challenges such as emergency operations during mass casualties, pandemic management, and providing meaningful spaces for the cognitively impaired. Her work extends to international projects, where she bridges culturally relevant human-centric design with Western building standards and medicine, developing scalable solutions for remote communities in developing countries, particularly in Africa.
As a thought leader on healthcare environments and healthy buildings, she has shared her expertise with global audiences through lectures, research collaborations with government agencies, universities, and contributions to white papers and research articles.
Huelat is also the author of two nationally acclaimed books, “Healing Environments: What’s the Proof” and “Healing Environments for the Mind, Body, and Spirit.” Her book, “Taming the Chaos of Dementia,” co-authored with her daughter Sharon T. Pochron, PhD, offers a practical guide to addressing the challenges of dementia through creative interventions.
Reflecting back on her 40-year journey, Barbara Huelat says, “My voyage into the realm of healing design began with a simple quest: understanding what constitutes a healing environment? This journey has been marked by numerous twists and turns, from moments of frustration to exhilarating triumphs. The journey continues to remind me of the profound impact that healing spaces can have on people’s lives.”
Barbara Huelat’s dedication and impact on healthcare design exemplify the power of design in shaping a healthier and more compassionate world.
Barbara Huelat AAHID / FASID /EDAC
Barbara J. Huelat is a prominent Human Centric Healthcare Designer, author, and speaker. Ms. Huelat has created healing environments and solved health challenges for more than 300 healthcare organizations and serves as a healing environment consultant to healthcare facilities, product manufacturers, academia, institutions, and the architectural design community. By placing humanity at the core, her pioneering mindset proves that human-centric designs impact healing, improve the human experience, affect health outcomes, and are cost-effective. She has been awarded the 2023 Changemaker Award by The Center for Health Design, the ASID National Luminary Award for Research 2020, eight First-Place ASID Project Design Awards, and is an ASID Fellow. Her quest to support human health has led to extensive research. She has written three books, Healing Environments: What’s the Proof? Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind, and Spirit, translated into Chinese, are used by students, designers, architects, and health-care providers and are required by AAHID’s exam. Ms. Huelat’s latest work, Taming the Chaos of Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide to Interventions that Make a Difference, provides a compassionate and insightful guide to those facing the tumultuous journey of dementia, offering solace, support, and practical strategies to navigate this challenging path. Currently, she shares human-centric designs globally via lecturers at international conferences, universities, and organizations and through research collaborations with government agencies and universities, contributing to white papers and research articles. Always fascinated with the beauty of science and the science of design, she believes human-centric design experiences can mitigate human misery.
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