Bruce Porter Arneill, FAIA, FACHA | Trustee

Bruce Arneill has devoted his 40-year career to teaching and managing design and planning projects for healthcare campuses and facilities. His main focus has always been on creating environments that are both efficient in daily operation but also provide a high quality of design and comforting atmosphere for patients, families, and staff. Organizational and Management Consulting or what he calls “Brains before Bricks” as related to mission and strategic planning for leadership at organizations and institutions has been his passion for the last few years.

He is recognized for his expertise in strategic planning, good design, futurist ideas, and problem solving for complex situations and facilities. Arneill has helped to develop the next generation of Architects through his teaching at institutions including Harvard, The American Hospital Association, Group Health Association of America, as well as teaching an on-going course at the Yale School of Hospital Administration concerning management of operational issues. Along with authoring the latest JCAHO Book on Planning and Design and a booklet on Guidelines to Planetree Design, Arneill has been published extensively in journals including Modern Healthcare, Hospitals, Health Facilities Management, The New York Times, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, and Connecticut Architect. He has also been a contributing editor to The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management.

A founder and chairman emeritus of The S/L/A/M Collaborative in Glastonbury, CT, Boston, and Atlanta, a 160-person architectural firm nationally known for healthcare design, and a past winner of the Modern Healthcare Honor Award for a Planetree hospital. He has led the planning and design of more than 50 healthcare projects and is a past president of the National AIA Academy on Architecture for Health; he also was on the Board of the Forum for Health Care Planning and Chairman of New Haven Healthcare. He is a graduate of Yale University; holding a B. Arts (1957), B. Architecture (1959), and M. Architecture and was the 1961 recipient of the Magnus T. Hopper Fellowship.

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