2020 Healthcare Environment Award for Dr.-Ing. Maja Kevdzija (SGB)

The catalogue of design guidelines for stroke rehabilitation clinics ("Transitional Model for Stroke Rehabilitation Clinics") developed in the PhD thesis of Dr.-Ing. Maja Kevdzija was selected for the 2020 Healthcare Environment Awards in the category Student Winner for Post-Graduate Project. The jurors that reviewed the project agreed that it demonstrated high achievement in innovation and design excellence.

The Healthcare Environment Awards honor innovative architectural and interior design solutions across a range of typologies that enhance the quality of healthcare delivery. This award is given by The Center for Health Design (Concord, CA, USA),  a nonprofit organization that advances best practices and empowers healthcare leaders with quality research that demonstrates the value of design to improve health outcomes, patient experience of care, and provider/staff satisfaction and performance. 

Following is the list of all awarded projects:

Acute Care Winner: Mercyhealth, Javon Bea Hospital and Physicians Clinic — Riverside, AECOM

Acute Care Honorable Mention: Banner University Medical Center Tucson, Shepley Bulfinch

COVID-Response Acute Care Winner: STAAT Mod, HGA + The Boldt Company

COVID-Response Acute Care Honorable Mention: McCormick Place Alternative Care Facility, Stantec Architecture

Ambulatory Care Winner: Spencer Cancer Center, East Alabama Medical Center, TRO Jung | Brannen

Ambulatory Care Honorable Mention: Kaiser Permanente Clairemont Mesa Medical Offices, ARCHITECTS hanna gabriel wells

Student Winner for Post-Graduate Project: Transitional Model for Stroke Rehabilitation Clinics | Maja Kevdzija, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Architecture

Student Winner for Graduate Project: NOLA Behavioral Health Inpatient Facility | Samia Mansour, The University of Kansas, Department of Architecture

Student Honorable Mention for Graduate Project: Zero-conflict emergency department: An evidence-based approach to improve communication and teamwork within an ED | Seyedehnastaran Hashemi, Texas Tech University

Student Honorable Mention for Graduate Project: Catena Healthworks | Ravideep Singh and Sharanya Reddy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign