CIHF Sponsored Certificate Programs through eCornell
Healthcare Facilities Planning & Design
Faculty authors: Mardelle Shepley, Rohit Verma, Robert Newman, and Nick Frabrizio
This six-course certificate program provides you with in-depth instruction in effectively using evidence-based research to improve a healthcare environment. Core courses cover the critical components of healthcare facilities design planning. Learn excellence in change leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic alignment with organizational goals. Create your strategic plan and execute and assess it by using data to gauge impact. Learn some of the critical skills you need to lead your project to success or dive deeper to interpret technical facility design plans.
Find out more about this certificate HERE.
Senior Living Management
Faculty authors: Mardelle Shepley, Rohit Verma, Judi Brownell, and Alex Susskind
In this certificate program, you’ll explore best practices for service excellence at senior living facilities. Through examination of case studies and industry regulations, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the current senior living landscape. You’ll have the opportunity to utilize the principles of environmental psychology to plan senior living facilities that support health and wellness through informed design. You’ll implement the PPO (product, people, and operational conditions) framework to assess the needs of an organization and apply industry trends to create food service operations that align with the needs of a senior living facility. Throughout the courses, you’ll explore how process thinking can improve your senior living facility by creating a process flow document and formalizing an action plan for decision-making. Finally, you will practice assessing the quality of a senior living organization, identifying areas for improvement through research and applying quality management approaches.
Find out more about this certificate HERE.
Courses & Seminars
Health, Hospitality and Design Industry Seminar (required for the Healthy Futures minor)
HADM/DEA 3033/6055
Fridays, 9:05 am – 9:55 am
This 1 credit-hour speaker series provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from industry leaders with proven success in the emerging industry that combines elements of hospitality and design with health, wellness, and senior living. Students in this course have an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights directly from senior executives as they share their views on business, managerial, career, and other critical industry-related issues. As part of the course, students have the opportunity to meet in small groups with the individual speakers. There is considerable demand for college graduates who understand the complexities of the emerging industry and this seminar provides students the opportunities to learn first-hand from the speakers.
Heather Kolakowski (SHA) and Mardelle Shepley (HCD) are co-instructors for the course.
CHE and Sloan students should sign up for DEA 3055 or DEA 6055 and SHA students should sign-up for HADM 3055 or HADM 6055. Other Cornell students can sign-up for either course number. The course may be taken multiple times for credit as the speakers and topics change each year.
2024 Speakers:
Alex Carter, PA-C, MMS,Clinical Advisor, Innovation Hub, Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Vaibhav Garg, Director of Talent & Culture, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Tammy Thompson, MArch, EdD, RA, RID, CPXP, NCARB, EDAC, President, Institute for Patient-Centered Design, Director of Experience Engagement, Education & Design, ECU Health, Adjunct Faculty, North Carolina A&T State University
Erin Peavey, AIA, WELL AP, LSSYB, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C, Health & Well‑being Design Leader, Community, Vice President, HKS, Inc.
Andrea Möhn, Director, Andrea Möhn Architects BV
Amin Mojtahedi, PhD., Assoc AIA, Design Innovation Manager, HGA Architects
Matt Schuler, Director of Culinary Development, SCOPOS Hospitality
Nancy Griffin, CEO, Glowing Older, Founder, SeniorTrade and #ExposeAgeism
Past speakers:
Spring 2017 Speakers
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