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Baby in the NICU

  • The Center for Health Design modeled the Pediatric Environment Network (PEN) after a highly-regarded and established Built Environment Network. PEN Is the newest collegial experience for senior and executive-level healthcare facilities, design and manufacturing/consulting professionals involved in the design and oversight of children’s health facilities. Judy Smith was invited to facilitate this network and help launch it in 2022.

  • The 2022 Gravens Conference included a session that built on several preceding design thinking exercises to reimagine the NICU of the future. As a participant and facilitator in these efforts Judy worked with talented teams to develop intriguing and innovative concepts that ranged from the high tech use of advanced technology including smart phone applications and holographic communication to concepts that offer a different type of high risk infant care outside the hospital and an integrative unit design within the hospital.

  • The planning committee is working diligently to organize the best speakers for the 2023 theme for this highly regarded, international NICU conference: The Future is Now for Babies, Families and Systems.

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  • Principal Judy Smith was appointed to the US committee that updates health facility guidelines. The FGI publications are used or referenced by approximately 43 states for regulatory purposes. One of her roles on the committee will be to head a work group to update national children’s hospital guidelines. This publication will be available soon.

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  • This group of 100s of fetal health experts and industry leaders are working on building bright futures for families and support staff involved in fetal medicine, including the development of the first set of recommended standards for fetal care center design.

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Selected Publications

Smith, J, “Gravens by Design: Common Questions for Designing Today’s State-of-the-Art NICU”, Neonatology Today; May 2022, Loma Linda Publishing, 53-62

Facility Guidelines Institute, Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Hospitals, Judith Smith, Health Guidelines Revision Committee Member, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2014, 2018, and 2022 Editions

Boardman, Groves, Ramasethu, Avery and MacDonald’s Neonatology: Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn, Judith Smith Contributor, 8th Edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2021

Smith, J, Community Hospital Maternity Service Survival, Smith Hager Bajo White Paper, February 2019

Shepley MM, Smith JA, Sadler BL, White RD. “The business case for building better neonatal intensive care units”. J Perinatology, 2014;34(11):811–5

White, RD, Smith JA, Shepley MM, “Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design”, Eight Edition, J Perinatology, 2013 Apr; 33 Suppl 1:S2-16, Nature Publishing Group

Smith, J, Hager, J, Bajo, K, “ Making Neonatal Intensive Care Units More Visually Appealing”, Newborn & Infant Nursing Reviews, Vol 10, No. 2, June 2010.

Bajo, K., Hager, J., Smith, J., “ Birth Centers at Children’ s Hospitals: An Evolving Trend”, Smith Hager Bajo White Paper, May 2009

Bajo, K., Smith J., Hager J., “ The Third Generation of Women’ s Specialty Health Services: Selected Profiles” , Smith Hager Bajo White Paper, May 2006

White, R, Martin, G, Smith, J, Graven, S,  “Chapter 6 Newborn Intensive Care Unit Design: Scientific and Practical Considerations”,  Avery and MacDonald’s Neonatology: Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2005

White, R., Smith, J., et al, “ Planning a Developmentally Appropriate Neonatal Intensive Care Unit” , Clinics in Perinatology, Vol 31, No. 2, June 2004

Bajo, K., Hager, J., Smith, J. with support from NTD Stichler Architects, “ The Third Generation of Women’ s Outpatient Health Services, White paper, May, 2004

Smith, J., Hager, J., Bajo, K., TRO Architects et al, “ The Third Generation of NICU Design”, Smith Hager Bajo White Paper, 2003

Smith, J., White, R.,  “ Nurturing Design: A Look at NICU Recommended Standards” , Health Facilities Management, May 2001

Archer, R., Walters, B., Bajo, K., Hager, J. & Smith, J., “ Results from Using Simulation Based Analytical Tools for Women and Children Health Services Providers”  Simulation Medical Sciences Simulation Conference Proceedings, January 2000

Bajo, K., Hager, J. & Smith, J., “ Keeping moms and babies together” , AWHONN Lifelines, April 1998

Hager, J., Archer, R., Bajo, K., LaVine, N. & Smith, J., “ The Next Generation of Simulation:  Obstetric Bed Need/Staffing Projections” , Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Proceedings, February 1998.

Bajo, K., Smith, J. & Hager, J., “ Women’ s Health Administration Survey of Salaries, Titles and Reporting Levels” , FOCUS, NAWHP, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1997

Smith, J. The Family Birthplace: Planning and Designing Today’ s Obstetric Facilities, American Hospital Publishing, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, November 1995