![]() It’s easy-peasy and tastes as anticipated regardless of strength. It gets all the Gen-X and seasoned Millennials singing, but “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond gets everyone singing. Totally showing my age, but “Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice. Joyce began conversations with a fun story and ended them with a kind word. She spent countless hours building a business, raising four sons, and managing staff and vendors, and she did it all with grace. Along with my fearless mom, Joyce secured her place in my life as a strong female role model. The company has become the country’s longest running speed shop, providing race car parts and aftermarket accessories to classic car enthusiasts. ![]() My identical twin sister and I worked as “shadows” for a then-budding car museum in Lincoln, Neb., which started as the private collection of “Speedy” Bill Smith, who founded Speedway Motors in 1952 with his wife, Joyce. While we undoubtedly have a ways to go, I’m thrilled that my kids can grow up with visible role models of all sizes, gender identity, and diversity. I adore this age of “love your body.” The 1980s was full of a lot of things, but “loving yourself as you are” was not one of them. Wisps of clouds take on dramatic colors, then quickly dissipate to white when the sun rises above the horizon. The dew begins to lift as a gentle and short-lived fog settles into the low areas and bands of trees. The house is quiet, especially in the summer, and I enjoy the stillness of the morning as the sunrise begins to peak over the soft sloping landscape of crops directly outside my door. I’ve become a morning person over the last several years. He has a beautiful and quiet connection to our 12-year-old Charlie but conversely finds ways to get into mischief with our 4-year-old Emmett. I love big dogs! We welcomed a 1 1/2-year-old Leon Berger, named Moose, into our family last November and he’s such a good dog. Was I able to communicate design intent clearly while building consensus among the team? Did I find words that were more constructive than critical? Was I vulnerable and authentic in my ability to show my peers that they matter to me? I want to ensure that I am a good steward of the role of healthcare designer, which means holding myself accountable for how I mentor young professionals, teach students, listen to clients, and ultimately create healing environments within multidisciplinary teams of people. I spend my bouts of sleepless nights scrutinizing interactions from the previous day. What challenges about your work keep you up at night? Effective design is even more important in a healthcare environment where patients and their families are at their most vulnerable. What do you like best about working in healthcare design?īeing able to have a positive impact on the relationship between people and the environment they inhabit. collaborating with an interdisciplinary team. Three healthcare design projects and your roleġ Nebraska Medicine Specialty Clinic at Village Pointe, Omaha, Neb., senior interior designer.Ģ VA Hospital, Tulsa, Okla., a public-private partnership project for the Veterans Administration, interior design team in collaboration with GH2 and Leo A Daly.ģ West Los Angeles VA Critical Care Center, Los Angeles, senior interior designer. Empathy is critical to positive outcomes and we as healthcare designers must always put ourselves in the shoes of our users. ![]() Becoming a patient, I realized I had never put myself in the LDR while designing it. We adopted our first son and then, several years later, gave birth in one of the labor and delivery rooms (LDR) I had designed at Methodist Women’s Hospital. What lesson from that project do you still carry with you?Īt the time of the project, I was a 25-ish year-old that had grieved the likely prospect of not being able to bear a biological child. It included a hotel-like experience for patients and families and comprised labor/delivery rooms, mother/baby patient rooms, and private neonatal intensive care unit rooms. Working for HDR under the mentorship of interior designer Bob Holm for the design and construction of the Methodist Women’s Hospital in Omaha, Neb. She spoke with such passion about healthcare that it was hard not to be drawn into healthcare design. ![]() While at the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, our professional practice class was taught by adjuncts, one of whom was Aneetha McLellan (now the executive director of health system engagement and design-thinking at Kimball International Health). What drew you to a career in healthcare design? The associate, senior interior designer at Leo A Daly (Omaha, Neb.), talks about her introduction to healthcare design, love of creating order out of a mess, and uncanny sense of direction.
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