Healthcare Lighting Best Practices: Lighting the Modern Hospital (8 Credits)
Topics Include:
- Trends in Healthcare
- Optimal lighting for the following departments: Patient Room, ICU, NICU, MRI, Labor & Delivery, Behavioral Health, Cath Lab, Operating Room
- Circadian Lighting Systems: To “Tune or Not to Tune”
- Studies on Lighting and Its Effects on Patient Health
- RP-29 Review and Practices (IES)
Best Practices: Lighting the Modern Hospital (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Major trends in healthcare lighting
- Importance of infection control
- Deep dive into the lighting needs of 10 critical areas of the hospital
- IES recommended practice for healthcare facilities
- Clinical benefits of recessed exam lighting
Better Apart: The Benefits of Remote-Mounted LED Drivers (1 AIA or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Environments that require or benefit from remote-mounted LED power supplies
- Best practices for system design and configuration
- Control options for dimming, color-changing, and scene synchronization
- Radio frequency filtering in the MRI suite and laboratory spaces
- Frequently forgotten questions
Lighting for MRI Suites, Stand-Up MRIs, and Hybrid OR (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and how does it work?
- Special requirements of the MRI suite
- Three necessary components for successful MRI lighting
- Popular design techniques in the MRI suite
- Frequently forgotten questions
Color and Light: Color Rendering, CCT, and Tunable White (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Measuring color rendition with TM-30 and extended CRI
- An intro to color science and the black body curve
- Ideal CCT specification for various healthcare applications
- Control options for tunable white and circadian systems
- Color tuning vs. intensity tuning vs. stimulus tuning vs. circadian supporting static color
Humancentric Lighting and the WELL Standard (1 AIA-HSW or NCQLP Credit)
Topics & Objectives:
- Introduce the WELL Building Standard
- Identify the 10 concepts that comprise the WELL approach to occupant wellness
- Three levels of certification: Silver, Gold, & Platinum
- Deep dive into WELL’s pre-conditions and optimizations associated with “Light”