Laurie Emery, Visa Lighting
Wednesday
March 19, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
March 19, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Credits TBD
Intermediate
Behavioral healthcare continues to evolve in our ever-changing society. Treatment spaces for mental well-being are continually improving to provide safer and more therapeutic environments for patients and clinicians alike. Treatment objectives are moving beyond symptom control to patient-centered recovery. Design choices should incorporate every element of the behavioral health facility design, including lighting and lighting control. This course provides evidence-based insights on behavioral healthcare within the context of the environment, an overview of behavioral health safety standards, examines considerations for lighting and luminaire design for behavioral health spaces and illustrates successful behavioral health lighting applications relevant to patient-centered care and current best practices.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the needs of various patient populations in behavioral health facilities and milieu that determine design concepts to diminish the stigma of mental health through aesthetic choices and control options
- Identify the current safety guidelines and available standards that apply to lighting design in a behavioral health space
- Evaluate luminaires and lighting design features that promote safe, therapeutic, patient-centered environments
- Employ lighting design strategies that take salutogenesis into account during the design and application of lighting product selection
Speaker
Laurie Emery
Healthcare Market Development Manager
Visa Lighting
As Healthcare Market Development Manager for Visa Lighting, the leading brand in performance lighting for commercial, educational, hospitality, healthcare, and behavioral health facilities. Laurie supports specifiers through training for lighting solutions that enhance healthcare applications and improve patient well-being.
With a background in architecture and electrical design, Laurie's career direction changed when she discovered her true passion in lighting design. This newfound interest led her to pursue further training in lighting design, a journey that was enriched by educational opportunities with the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES).
Today, Laurie is a certified lighting (LC) professional with a wealth of experience, having worked alongside architects, engineers, and interior designers for many years. She has positively influenced numerous interior and exterior projects across various sectors, including commercial, educational, retail, hospitality, senior living, and healthcare. Notably, she led a partnership with Nationwide Children's Hospital, leading the development of lighting products for their patient rooms in the Big Lot’s Behavioral Health Pavilion. Laurie has also held leadership roles in the IES sections in Toledo, Cincinnati, and Greensboro.
Laurie continues to leverage her professional lighting design background at Visa Lighting through continual research of modern lighting technology and design trends in the healthcare market. This knowledge allows her to engage with design professionals to promote evidence-based design that encourages healing in healthcare environments.