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Recognizing excellence, commitment, and knowledge

Whether you’re a healthcare interior designer looking to boost your professional credibility and help advance the field; or someone looking for a highly qualified healthcare interior designer to join your team, you’ve come to the right place. AAHID’s Certified Healthcare Interior Designer (CHID) credential recognizes excellence, commitment, and knowledge of this complex discipline.

Committed to creating the best environments for healthcare delivery, Certified Healthcare Interior Designers are the most qualified to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of patients, residents, and staff in hospitals, clinics, and residential care facilities.

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John Tagliareni

Healthcare Executive

Virginia is a very reliable and creative consultant able to interpret complex client needs and find elegant solutions of lasting value. She is a pleasure to work with and understands the various issues associated with healthcare interior design.

Debbie Lewandowski RN,BSN,MBA

Leadership at University of Virginia (UVA) Emily Couric Cancer Center

Virginia has brought to a hospital system, a design that works for both the patients as well as a visual effect. She is professional to work with & understands the needs of her clients.

Mark Libratore

President/CEO Liberator Medical Holdings, Inc.

Virginia did a remarkable job on our new 25,000 sq. ft. facility here in Stuart. Her keen sense of design has won numerous compliments from all our visitors over the last year.

Ken Lebron

Officer/owner at The Caribeño Architectural Group

I would like to take this moment to highly recommend Virginia for her high level of professionalism and work ethic as the President at Interior Solutions Inc. She is extremely thorough in anything we have asked her to do and her quality of work is impeccable.

We have been very fortunate to work with Virginia on a few different projects and she and her team at Interior Solutions have done an outstanding job in all aspects of Interior Design and Project Management. She has always met her schedules and is a pleasure to work with.

We at CAG, have had the opportunity to develop a great business relationship with Virginia and look forward to continuing to work together with her on many future endeavors.

Virginia Lane Hill

AAHID, IIDA, IDAF
As a healthcare interior designer I feel strongly that ours is one of the most complex specialties within the design field. My CHID credential allows me to easily demonstrate to my clients just how committed I am to understanding their industry. AAHID membership has helped me not only with clients but has also allowed me to make connections with like-minded peers.

Christine Lawing Adams

CHID, IIDA
What I love about Interior Design is the capacity of the built environment to shape perception and behavior. That is the ability to positively influence the human condition.

What I love about my practice in Healthcare Interior Design is that through providing relief to the requirements of caregivers in their routines, in shaping perceptions to alleviate concerns of visitors as to the wellbeing of their loved ones and by addressing patient comfort, dignity and recovery, I provide services that enhance basic human needs for the greater good of mankind.

AAHID in its mission, positions CHID credentialed professionals to better serve society.

John DuBard

CHID, IIDA, LEED AP