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New healthcare design institute launches
TANNER HASSELL
@thassell17
The new University Institute for Health+Wellness Design will work to address the ever-changing needs of healthcare providers. Contributed photo
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The world of medicine and healthcare is ever-changing, and with rapidly evolving technology comes a need for specially designed facilities. The Institute for Health+Wellness Design at the University aims to address these needs, according to Frank Zilm, director of the newly-established program.
The Institute was officially launched by the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning on Sept. 30, according to a University news release.
"Health care design is probably one of the most complex architectural design problems that we face because we're dealing with patient needs,
Zilm, who is also an architect based out of Kansas City, Mo., said the new institute was established after eight years of developing a graduate program focused on the complex issues of health care facility design.
family needs, technical requirements and complex building issues," he said. "Based off that eight years of experience and some key partnerships with major national and local architecture firms, we moved with the dean's initiation into the development of the institute."
Zilm said the institute will address three issues: continuing to provide information and research to create a safe and high quality environment for patients and staff, growing the internship programs in which students in the program participate, and conducting research that will help health care practices.
The health care internship is one aspect that makes this program unique from others around the country, according to Zilm.
"We have a seven-month internship in health care architecture firms. Students take classes, do their internship, then come back and take a design studio on health care problems," he said. "After the design studio, the students receive a certificate in health care design."
"Health care itself is transforming very rapidly. It used to be when health care architects designed a hospital, it was a place where people were very sick, which is changing," Spreckelmeyer said. "Health care providers are now treating people who
Associate director of the new institute, Kent Spreckelmeyer, said the program will work to address the ever-changing needs of health care providers.
are trying to maintain their health. It's moving from inpatient to outpatient essentially."
"Another thing is the technology is changing rapidly and affecting how people are being treated. In the past if you had surgery, you would be in the hospital for days, which is not necessarily the case anymore," he said.
Spreckelmeyer said a big issue for health care architects is the cost of planning and building these facilities, a problem he believes the institute can address using new technology.
"These environments
are very expensive, and health care providers are looking for more efficient ways to design these facilities. So as designers we have to create these environments effectively and efficiently," he said. "Using new technology, we're able to create full scale concepts of buildings in an efficient way. For example, with a technology like Google Glass you can design a building and actually take a virtual tour using the glasses."
- Edited by Matt Clough
FROM INTERNATIONAL
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To help international students acclimate, Olcese's department provides seminars and creative activities for students, staff and faculty. One new offering is called "Life in the U.S. Series," a set of short seminars to introduce students to American life and culture, as well as connect them to different resources on campus like counseling and other psychological services.
"The goal is to get students to be able to move, develop and live in the U.S. in a comfortable way." Olcese said.
Another series of workshops, starting this semester, is being offered to staff and academic departments. The workshops focus on helping them improve intercultural communication.
"We touch on language difference there," Olcese said. "But mostly, what we're trying to deal
with is helping people understand the complexity of the differences and how to help them navigate that without being frustrated or confused."
For the University's 900 Chinese students — the largest group of international students on campus - isolation can be less of an issue than for other students from overseas. Olcee said some Chinese students go through "culture avoidance," staying in their own community and what's familiar to them to such a degree that they avoid the chance to fully immerse into the new culture.
This situation prompted a group of Chinese students studying psychology to create International Peer Support, an organization that offers mental health support during the adjustment process to international students. They partnered with Headquarters Counseling Center, which provides professional counseling training to peer mentors.
The peers currently offer support in English, Chinese and Spanish. Hongyi Wang, who is the head of operations for the group, said he and the organization's president, Nanyi Deng, started the group to close a gap in mental health resources.
"We both realized that KU is not doing a really good job to help, specifically international students, about their mental health," Wang said. "We wanted to help them using their own language and their own culture."
The organization launched its services this semester. Although it aims to help all international students, Wang said that for now they are mainly focusing on the Chinese community and reducing the stigma among them surrounding mental health.
"[Chinese students] think that if I call you for help I may have a mental health issue, and
that's not true," Wang said. "You may be feeling homesick or stressed."
The group is currently trying to reach different student organizations to spread the word about International Peer Support and the services it offers.
For Mohd, now a junior studying petroleum engineering, the chance to help students who experienced what she went through prompted her to join the International Leadership Team, a group that helps students get involved during their first semester in school.
"I joined the team so I can help others, especially the new students," she said.
Getting students, especially international students, to feel comfortable is essential to keeping them enrolled at the University, Olcese said. But in general, those students have the fortitude to make it through.
"To get an education
in another country, not everyone does that, and [international students] know that," he said. "They are goal-oriented resourceful and willing to take risks."
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