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IN THE NEWS

Engaging Rural Communities in the Design of Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital

Will Drive-Thru Clinics Be the New Normal? Design After COVID-19

13 Trends and Counting: What We’re Seeing In 2020

Designed to Heal: In Conversation with Kari Thorsen and Austin Ferguson

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Kari Thorsen

NCIDQ, LEED AP®

Kari Thorsen is an interior designer specializing in healthcare facilities. Over the last 14 years, she has designed projects for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, CHI Franciscan Health, and Providence Health & Services, as well as numerous projects for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics system, including their children’s hospital. Kari’s work seeks to improve the healthcare experience by creating soothing, supportive environments that provide patients, families, and staff members with moments of joy to facilitate healing. With a focus on understanding each client’s unique culture and each project’s challenges and needs, Kari participates in user group interviews, visioning sessions, observations, and shadowing, which ultimately lead to innovative solutions that balance users’ requirements with the community context while bringing the therapeutic elements of nature to patients inside. Kari earned a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

EXPERIENCE

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Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Marshall and Katherine Cymbaluk Medical Tower

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CHI Franciscan Health, St. Anthony Hospital

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Seattle Children’s Hospital, South Clinic

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Seattle Children’s Hospital, North Clinic

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Seattle Children’s, Building Hope: Cancer and Critical Care Expansion / Friends of Costco Building

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Providence Health & Services, Swedish Medical Center-Ballard, Behavioral Health Unit

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