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EwingCole, one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering and interior design firms, has announced that principal Natalie Miovski has received her Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) from the Center for Health Design (CHD).

“Natalie recognizes the effects of planning and design on patient stress, patient and staff safety, staff effectiveness and quality,” said EwingCole’s President S. Mark Hebden, AIA, LEED AP. “She develops evidence-based planning and design solutions to achieve the best possible patient, staff and operational outcomes.”

Launched in 2008, the EDAC program was the first attempt to standardize the practice and process of evidence-based design, and qualify an individual's knowledge of that process. The CHD’s mission is to develop a community of certified industry professionals through education and assessment of an evidence-based design process.

Ms. Miovski has special expertise in planning for the full range of healthcare functions, from outpatient clinics to complex inpatient environments, and has completed projects at the Geisinger Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania Health System, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and Hospital for Special Surgery. As part of her commitment to evidence-based design, Ms. Miovski, regularly performs post-occupancy evaluations and shares her findings at national conferences including Healthcare Design, the Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo and the American Society of Healthcare Engineering.