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.

Mitch Goplen, vice president of facility services, Billings Clinic, was honored in the facility manager category.

Overseeing more than 1 million square feet of facility space, Goplen is responsible for more than 20 expansion and renovation projects at Billings (Mont.) Clinic over the last two years, according to the article.

Goplen is an advocate of evidence-based design in the planning process and a supporter of The Center for Health Design’s Pebble Project, registering two current Billings Clinic projects under the research initiative.

Billings recently opened the first phase of a 13-room operating suite and a breast center, the article said. He’s made infection control a priority on all projects, involving on-staff experts as well as consultants and contractors in the education process.

Read the article.