Barbara J. Huelat, FASID
Company: Huelat Parimucha Ltd.
635 S Fairfax St
Alexandria, VA 22314-3833 map
Phone: (703) 838-8414 ext. 103
Email: bhuelat@healingdesign.com
Website: www.healingdesign.com
Designer Profile
Barbara J. Huelat, AAHID / FASID / IIDA /EDAC is nationally recognized for work in evidence based healthcare design and serves as a healing environment consultant to healthcare facilities, product manufacturers, academia, institutions and the architectural design community. Her three decades of design experience cover virtually all types, components and sizes of domestic and international healthcare facilities. Barbara was a founding board member for the Symposium on Healthcare Design and former corporate vice president and chief of healthcare interior architecture at Ellerbe Becket in addition to a variety of other professional and academic positions. Currently is Past President on the board of regents for the American Academy of Interior Designers
Ms. Huelat with her husband founded the firm Huelat Parimucha in 1991 to provide Healthcare Design uniquely focused on Healing Environments. The firm continues to provide healing environments to leading healthcare facilities throughout the country and abroad. Huelat Parimucha Ltd, a healthcare design consulting firm, HPHD was formed and licensed in the State of Virginia in June 1991. Barbara J. Huelat, FASID and Joseph P. Parimucha, AIA are the firm’s principals. The Huelat Parimucha Ltd. office is located in the historic district of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia at 635 South Fairfax Street. HPHD offers the personalized service of a small firm with the expertise developed from years with large architectural / engineering firms. Design professionals offer specialized and unique planning, programming and design services to clients focusing on the healthcare environment.
Under Barbara's leadership Huelat Parimucha Ltd., Healing Design, is a leader in visionary healthcare design. The firm is nationally known and recognized for healing environments—providing evidence based design in the healthcare setting. The firm has been actively involved in the Center for Health Design, Pebble Projects, The Environmental Standards of Care, the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers, the American College of Healthcare Architecture and academic research through Evidence Based Design.
Evidence Based Design:
The firm has been actively involved in Evidence Based Design with the prestigious research with ER One at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. Preliminary research outcomes include Infection Protection, Positive Distractions, Ergonomics, Perceived vs. Actual Wait Times, and Staff Work Flow. This project is now in the 4th year of a Pebble Project.
Firm Certifications:
Huelat Parimucha, Healing design has been awarded certification as a member of the Plantree Visionary Design Network at the Planetree Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland October 09. The firm is one of five firms in the United States to receive this designation. These charter members of the Planetree Visionary Design Network recognizes the commitment to fully embrace Planetree’s philosophy of designing healing environment for caring of the body, mind and spirit from the perspective of the patients, families and caregivers. This recognition by Planetree establishes these firms as specialists in “patient-centered design” as well as evidence-based healthcare design in alignment with the Planetree philosophy and its core components.
Huelat Parimucha is certified as a Woman Owned Business - WBE Certification Number 200511256. The firm is also Small Women and Minority-Owned , SWaM Certification Number 678501. Professional Certification In addition to the firm’s certifications, our design professionals are active in setting the highest quality standards through individual professional certifications including NCIDQ, National Council of Interior Design Certification, NCARB, EDAC, Evidence Based Design Certification, AAHID, the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Design, LEED Certification for sustainability, ACHA, American College of Healthcare Architects, ASID, the American Society of Interior Designers, IIDA International Interior Design Association, and the AIA, the American Institute of Architects.
Mission is design to improve patient outcomes.
Philosophy is to design and develop healthcare environments, which support healing and promote well being for the patients, family, staff and community through evidence-based design.
Services Offered
Healthcare Design, including the acute care hospital, outpatatient facilities, senior living, and Veteran Affairs medical facilities are the firm's core specialities. Huelat Parimucha Ltd has been setting standards in evidence-based healthcare design since 1991. We create nurturing atmospheres that lend themselves to a progressive, functional, and holistic experience for both establishment and client. In conjunction with staying at the forefront of current happenings and trends in both the healthcare and design worlds, we are promoting and implementing green design into healing healthcare environments.
Business Lines of Service:
Huelat Parimucha, Ltd. provides personalized evidence based consulting, architectural, interiors, space, and master programming/planning, feasibility studies, furniture packages and specifications, wayfinding, and ADA accessibility solutions with complete in-house CAD, scheduling, and budget estimating capabilities. Worldwide experience includes comprehensive healing environment design services for, healthcare facilities.
Awards & Publications
Ms Huelat has authored two books: Healing Environments, Design for the Body Mind & Spirit, Healing Environments, What’s the Proof? and some 60 + healthcare journal articles on a variety of healing design topics including wayfinding, cancer center design, pediatrics, myths and reality, quality and costs and nature and healing. Barbara is a popular speaker; she lectures frequently on a spectrum of healthcare design topics. Ms. Huelat is a past and current member of ASID's Distinguish Speaker Series.
Barbara has been honored with numerous design awards for projects of excellence, as well as personal recognition for American Society of Interior Designers, Washington Metro Chapter Designer of Distinction, and the Humanities Design Award.
