38, Part 1, Joshua Theodore, Vice President and Global Health Practice Leader, Leo A. Daly

Healthcare Interior Design 2.0

In Part 1 of today’s episode, Cheryl Janis speaks with Joshua Theodore, Vice President and Global Health Practice Leader at Leo A. Daly. During the first months of the pandemic, what other facilities, aside from hospitals, were used as surge spaces? Joshua begins, “The US Army of Corps Engineers designated 17 alternate care facilities for surge capacity, and one of those was the Javits Center in New York City. If and when they are demolished, we are going to have a lot of extra product; $700 million dollars worth, and some of that is going to end up in the bin and that is a massive amount of waste.” Get an insider’s perspective into what else was going on behind the scenes during the first several months of the pandemic, and what new innovations are coming out of Leo A Daly’s firm on part 1 of today’s episode.

Learn more about Joshua Theodore and Leo A. Daly by visiting https://leoadaly.com/.

In Part 1 of Cheryl’s conversation with Joshua Theodore they discuss:

• How did Joshua Theodore and Leo A. Daly respond to the pandemic and what was it like emotionally during those first few months of the crisis, from inside the firm?
• What is Leo A. Daly’s task force and at what point after the pandemic hit the United States was the task force created?
• What did Leo A. Daly’s morale surveys reveal and what was learned?
• What is the Hotel2Hospital concept when did it start, and what was the initial response?
• When the US Army of Corps Engineers designated 17 alternate care facilities for surge capacity, and one of those was the Javits Center in New York City. Why has so much waste been left over from this, and what can the healthcare design community learn from this moving forward?

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• The American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers
• The Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design

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