Designing For Adaptability and Resilience in Healthcare
Creating spaces that elevate patient care and comfort are a top priority. Building in adaptability and resilience to the space is a necessity now more than ever.
Increasing the performance of the built environment means reducing hospital-acquired infections and getting people home faster.
Whether you are currently renovating or designing new construction, you can start at the ceiling to surround patients and staff with healthy, sustainable building materials. These products that make a difference by cleaning and disinfecting the air and providing acoustic performance that supports privacy and patient well-being.
Allied States Cooperative Contracts and GSA Schedule
Indoor Environmental Quality in Healthcare Facilities
New Patients
Number of people who check into a U.S. hospital each day*.
Airborne Infections
Studies suggest that 10% to 20% of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) are the result of airborne transmission**.
Excessive Sound
Peak Hospital noise levels often exceed 90 db, similar to a lawn mower or hair dryer.
“It was a significant improvement,” he says. “We are now able to maintain the required pressure throughout the day.... If we need another room that requires negative pressure, I would highly recommend this system.”
- Kevin McNeil, Director of Plant Operations, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital
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Support an Effective Healthcare Environment
Armstrong provides solutions that help create safe and adaptable spaces for the healthcare environment. Products that help contain air, are cleanable, provide superior acoustics and are able to integrate seamlessly.
Click through to an interactive map to browse our many beautiful and functional solutions for your healthcare facility.
Case Study
The Inova Health System opened a 12-story, 660,000-square-foot building that houses two distinct facilities – the Inova Women’s Hospital and the Inova Children’s Hospital. Because good acoustics plays such an important role in the health safety, and well-being of patients and staff alike and contribute to indoor environmental quality, the acoustics were a consideration in the design. ULTIMA ceiling panels were used in much of the building, including patient rooms, treatment rooms, corridors, nurses’ stations, and consultation rooms, ideal for sound absorption and blocking. OPTIMA ceilings panels were installed in the nurseries and NICUs for sounds absorption.
Project: Inova Women’s Hospital/Inova Children’s Hospital
Location: Falls Church, VA
Architect: Wilmot Sanz, Gaithersburg, MD
Products:
ULTIMA
OPTIMA
METALWORKS EFFECTS
SOUNDSCAPES Shapes
Highlighted Solutions
Videos
Passionate About Sound - Healthcare
Watch as Julian Treasure describes how acoustics effect speech privacy and patient recuperation in healthcare settings. Learn how ARMSTRONG TOTAL ACOUSTICS ceilings can help provide the right combination of sound absorption and blocking.
AIRASSURE Ceiling Panels
Seal the ceiling plane with AIRASSURE ceiling panels that provide improved Indoor Environmental Quality for occupant comfort, well being and cleaner air.
Armstrong VIDASHIELD UV24 Air Purification System
See how the Armstrong VIDASHIELD UV24 System pairs a UV-C Air Purifier with ULTIMA HEALTH ZONE or SCHOOL ZONE FINE FISSURED ceiling panels to offer safe, unobtrusive in-room air purification for cleaner air.
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* Based on 2019 data
** Kowalski, 2016
