By Healthcare Facilities Today

Healthcare Design magazine recently named the winners of the second annual 'The HCD 10' competition. According to the magazine, the awards honor "an elite group of design and architecture professionals who represent the most exciting, inspirational, and influential healthcare work of the previous year."

Nominated by their peers, the winners were selected by the magazine editors from dozens of submissions in 10 categories.

Laura Poltronieri, Principal, Poltronieri Tang & Associates (PT&A), was honored in the architect category.

Poltronieri's firm focuses exclusively on healthcare facilities serving children, infants, and mothers. She has served as a member of the specialty subgroup to draft the new children’s hospital chapter of the 2014 edition of the Facility Guideline Institute’sGuidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities, the article said.

Her firm was recently involved in numerous pediatric planning projects, including serving as the pediatric healthcare planning and design specialists on the 252,000-square-foot Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, designed by Payette Architects and completed in February 2013. 

She also partnered with landscape architects Mahan Rykiel Associates on The Children's Playground on the grounds of the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which won a 2013 Excellence in Construction Award from the Metro Washington Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors, according to the article. She contributed two chapters to the upcoming book “Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care,” which includes a summary of PT&A’s research.

Read the article.