Houston, Texas (19 January 2010) – PageSoutherlandPage, one of the leading healthcare architecture and engineering firms in the country, is proud to announce that three members of its healthcare team have achieved accreditation from the Center for Health Design following their successful completion of the Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) exam. The exam was created by The Center for Health Design as a way to identify healthcare architects and designers who have demonstrated their knowledge of evidence-based design, including understanding the “proper process to follow to identify, hypothesize, implement, gather, and report the data associated with their project.”

A senior designer and healthcare planning specialist in the Dallas office of PageSoutherlandPage, Hilary J. Bales-Morales, RA, EDAC, received her Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University. An Associate with PageSoutherlandPage, Hilary has more than eight years of experience in the design of healthcare facilities including programming, pre-design planning, and departmental planning and layout for hospitals, laboratory centers and physician office buildings.  Hilary has actively led healthcare planning and design efforts in several states, as well as in the United Kingdom. She participates in the Academy of Architecture for Health and the Center for Health Design on many aspects of improving healthcare environments through the design process with an emphasis on an evidence-based approach to design.  Recent projects include the Texas Children’s West Campus in Houston; the Norman Regional Hospital Healthplex Campus in Norman, Oklahoma; the award-winning Children's Medical Center at Legacy in Plano, Texas; and multiple projects for the Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Brent Ganzer, RA, EDAC, LEED AP, is a project architect in the PageSoutherlandPage Denver office. He also received a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University and worked in the Houston office for several years prior to moving to Denver. With over 13 years of experience with healthcare projects, Brent is well versed in all aspects of technical management, with specific strengths in client management, medical planning, engineering consultant coordination, construction documentation, bid package coordination and construction administration. Among his most prominent projects are the Methodist West Houston Hospital and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Pickens Academic Center in Houston; Foundation Surgical Hospital in Bellaire, Texas; and the Tomball Regional Hospital Patient Tower Addition and Renovation in Tomball, Texas.

An Associate with PageSoutherlandPage, Janice Waggoner, RA, EDAC, LEED AP, is a project architect and medical planner in the Houston office.  She received her Master of Architecture from Texas A&M University, and has been working with the firm for almost four years. Janice also has Certificates in Sustainable Urbanism and in Health Systems & Design from Texas A&M. Recent healthcare projects include the St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital in Sugar Land, Texas and University General Hospital, Methodist West Houston Hospital and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Health Center in Houston.

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