Healthcare Garden Design Certificate of Merit Program

Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
February 23-27 & October 4-8, 2004

Program Description

Program instruction will be provided by experts from all the professions involved in creating a healthcare garden, and you will work in multidisciplinary teams that reflect the real world of healthcare garden design. Your learning will be reinforced through engaging case studies, design charettes and tours of the Chicago Botanic Garden as well as pioneering healthcare facilities in greater Chicago.

Program Design
This two-part program will meet for 4-1/2 days in February and again in October 2004. Each session includes lectures, group projects, case studies, tours and other engaging learning activities.

You will have the option of completing an independent project and/or taking an exam. Satisfactory completion of the independent project and/or an exam may be required for continuing education credit from professional associations.

See more photos of the Enabling Garden.

Who Should Participate
• Landscape architects and garden designers
• Healthcare architects and interior designers
• Healthcare executives and board members, program administrators, facility managers, project planners, development and marketing directors, and consultants
• Nurses and nurse supervisors, therapists, extended care providers, activity and recreation directors and patient advocates
• Graduate students in related fields

Program Content
• Types of healthcare gardens and their defining characteristics
• Research, evidence-based design and post-occupancy evaluation
• Passive and active garden experiences for positive health outcomes
• Characteristics of user groups (patients, family, visitors and staff) and how they benefit
• How to reduce staff stress and increase satisfaction, retention and recruitment
• Universal design, ADA, barrier-free design, regulations, codes and specifications
• Integration of gardens into new and existing healthcare campus landscapes
• Focus on designing garden environments of care in which passive experiences result in observable improvements in health and well-being
• Focus on designing garden environments of care for active therapeutic programming
• Connecting outdoor gardens to indoor spaces and therapeutic activities
• Plant selection and use, equipment, materials, safety, security and privacy
• Construction and maintenance of new projects, renovating and re-directing uses of indoor and outdoor spaces, including rooftops
• Extending the concepts of healthcare gardens to home, communities and landscapes
• Management of the garden facility and costs
• Building winning healthcare garden design teams
• Succeeding in the client-centered marketplace
• Marketing, project proposals and management, funding and resources

Program Schedule for 2004
Week 1: 8:00 a.m. Monday, February 23, through 1 p.m. Friday, February 27
Week 2: 8:00 a.m. Monday, October 4, through 1 p.m. Friday, October 8

Location
Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL 60022 USA

Further Information
For additional information about the program, contact Wayne Becker, Ph.D., at (847) 835-6928 or wbecker@chicagobotanic.org.

Advisory Committee
Jack Carman, ASLA, President, Design for Generations, Medford, New Jersey
Nancy Chambers, Director, Rusk Institute Glass Garden, New York, New York
Mark Epstein, ASLA, David Evans and Associates, Bellevue, Washington
Karin Fleming, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, Pennsylvania
Teresia Hazen, HTR, Legacy Health Systems, Portland, Oregon
Robert Hoover, ASLA, HBLA, Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Clare Cooper Marcus, Professor Emeritus, University of California
Elizabeth Messer Diehl, ASLA, HTM, Austin, Texas
Patrick Mooney, ASLA, University of British Columbia
Robin Moore, North Carolina State University
Jean Kavanagh, FASLA, Texas Tech University
Diane Relf, Ph.D., Virginia Tech University
Gene Rothert, HTR, Horticultural Therapy Services, Chicago Botanic Garden
Candice Shoemaker, Ph.D., Kansas State University
Roger Ulrich, Ph.D., Director, Center for Health Systems & Design, Texas A&M University
Joanne Westphal, M.D., ASLA, Michigan State University

General Information
Lodging
The following accommodations are located very close to the Chicago Botanic Garden and based on availability offer complimentary shuttles to the Garden and surrounding restaurants:

Courtyard by Marriott -1501 Lake Cook Road, Highland Park, IL 60035
(847) 831-3338 or (800) 321-2211

Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel - 933 Skokie Boulevard, Northbrook, IL 60062 (847) 498-6500 or (800) 535-9131
Ask for the Chicago Botanic Garden corporate rate, using code CHCB, at either hotel. Or request information on promotional rates.

Driving Directions
From Chicago, follow the Edens Expressway (I-94) north to Route 41 and exit Lake Cook Road east to the Garden.
From the west, and from O’Hare Airport, take route 294 north and exit Lake Cook Road east to the Garden.
From the north, take I-94 south and exit east on Lake Cook Road to the Garden or take Route 41 south and exit Lake Cook Road east to the Garden.
Click here for maps.

Train Service
Metra’s Union Pacific/North Line trains run between downtown Chicago and Kenosha, Wisconsin. Most trains on this line stop at Braeside Station, which is about one mile from the Chicago Botanic Garden. From Braeside Station, it is a pleasant walk to the Garden going west on Lake Cook Road.

Metra trains also stop at the Glencoe station, where you can call a taxi or take Pace Bus Line 213. Select the 214 with destination "Northbrook Court," and ask the driver to let you out at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

For schedules and fares, visit www.metrarail.com and www.pacebus.com.

Registration Information
To provide an optimal learning environment, registration is limited to 24 participants.
Registration Fee:
Early-bird fee postmarked by January 23: $2,995
Fee after January 23: $3,249
• Fee includes course fees for both sessions, learning materials, transportation to field sites, optional independent project and optional exam.
• Cancellations received in writing by 5 p.m. Friday, February 20, 2004 will be refunded less a 20 percent processing fee.