Healthcare Facilities Planning and Design Certificate

Healthcare facility design is more than picking the right wall colors or materials. If done well, healthcare facility design and planning can transform your organization and improve safety, operations, and the bottom line. Above all, an optimal, patient-centered healthcare environment has the power to improve clinical outcomes.

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.

Core Courses

Elective Courses

Choose 2 courses

Key Takeaways

Assess and diagnose your existing organizational culture, vision, and shared values
Determine your ideal state/culture to create a business strategy consistent with the organization’s core vision and values
Use Excel to examine the process flow in your organization
Create an action plan to improve decision-making at your organization
Assess the quality of a healthcare organization
Apply quality management approaches to improve quality at your organization
Examine psychological factors that affect our relationship to the environment in senior living facilities
Apply principles of environmental psychology to the design of senior living facilities

What You’ll Earn

Healthcare Facilities Planning and Design Certificate from Cornell College of Human Ecology
48 Professional Development Hours (4.8 CEUs)

Who Should Enroll

Chief executives
Faculty management staff
Hospital and healthcare facility administrators
Medical and non-medical personnel

Total Investment

3 months to complete all the courses

How to Enroll

For more information on how to enroll, please visit Healthcare Facilities Planning and Design Certificate