WASHINGTON, DC.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) have selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital. Jurors for the 2010 National Healthcare Design Awards include: John Pangrazio, FAIA, (Chair) NBBJ; Ruth Benefield, Seattle Children’s Hospital; Paul Bentel, FAIA, Bentel & Bentel; Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA, Perkins+Eastman; Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, Texas A&M University; Marlene Imirzian, AIA, Marlene Imirzian & Associates, Architects and Ray Pentecost, FAIA, Clark Nexsen. Three healthcare facilities were selected in three separate categories; Category A: – built, les