Safe and Secure: Complex Door Hardware Solutions for Health Care Facilities
AIAU26-AAH07
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LU|HSW
5.00
Live course date: 10/13/2026 | 02:00 PM
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Description
A safe and secure healthcare environment involves passive fire protection, safety, and security features, requiring unique door hardware solutions. This session is structured to engage the senior practitioner as well as the emerging professional. Join our presenters as they walk you through solutions for door locking, fire and smoke protection, and ligature resistance, while maintaining functionality and code compliance in challenging healthcare environments.
Learning Objectives
Understand the full spectrum of codes, regulations and standards that must be considered in the selection of door hardware.
Describe the door locking arrangements that are permitted and appropriate for each situation based on functionality.
Illustrate the full inventory of door hardware needed for compliance on complex door types.
Distinguish between minimum standard and best practice as it applies to hardware solutions in areas such as behavioral health.
Presented in partnership with the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH).
Leah Hummel represents ASHE members through advocacy efforts including committee participation with several codes and standards affecting the healthcare physical environment, coordination with Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, accrediting organizations, and other authorities having jurisdiction. Leah also educates and writes on topics like the design and regulation of the healthcare environment, life safety, and emergency management in healthcare facilities.
Before joining ASHE, Leah worked for The Joint Commission, starting out as a Life Safety Code Surveyor and then as an Engineer with the Standards Interpretation Group.
She was also employed as a plans reviewer/construction inspector with the North Dakota Department of Health Division of Life Safety and Construction and as a hospital facility architect responsible for planning, design, and construction projects. She started her career as a design architect working primarily on healthcare projects.
Leah has been awarded a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design from North Dakota State University. She also attained a Health Administration Certificate from the University of North Dakota.
Leah is a licensed architect in North Dakota and Minnesota. She maintains certification as a Certified Healthcare Facility Manager and Certified Healthcare Constructor by ASHE. She is a Certified Healthcare Operations Professional with DNV. She has also been recognized as a Senior member of ASHE for her commitment in advancing the profession of healthcare engineering.
Leah serves on NFPA 99 Fundamentals of Healthcare Facilities Committee; NFPA 99 and 99B Hyperbaric and Hypobaric Facilities Committee; NFPA 101 Board and Care Facilities Committee, and NFPA 101A Alternative Approaches to Life Safety Committee. She serves on ASHRAE 189.3 Design, Construction, and Operation of Sustainable High-Performance Health Care Facilities Committee, Facility Guidelines Institute Steering Committee, and the FGI Healthcare Guidelines Revision Committee. She is a member of the AIA Academy or Architecture for Health Codes and Standards Committee and is a Center for Health Design Knowledge Repository Partner.
Henry Kosarzycki, AIA, is Flad’s code architect. Prior to joining Flad, Henry served as the Director of the Office of Plan Review and Inspection with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Henry’s professional career in public service includes the Wisconsin Department of Commerce Division of Safety and Buildings as a program manager providing code training throughout the State of Wisconsin to architects, owners, builders, fire and building officials. The training sessions ranged from focused regulatory models, process, the broad scope of codes and standard, and certification of fire and building officials.
Before joining the State, he served as a plan reviewer for the City of Milwaukee and began his professional journey with a major construction company in the design-build industry as well as practice in a traditional architectural firm.
Henry has served on various national committees and councils including the International Green Construction Code workgroup, chair of the American Institute of Architects Codes and Standards committee, and the National Institute of Building Sciences as chair of the National Council on Building Codes and Standards. Henry continues to serve as vice chair on the International Code Council Health Care Committee. He is also serving on the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety Design Guidelines Workgroup.
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