Everyone is happier when you choose the right healthcare furniture for your patients’ rooms.
Designing patient rooms in healthcare facilities is a hugely important touch to the care and service that you provide to patients. Cleanliness and professionalism are obviously high priorities, but so should be comfort — both for patients and their loved ones. Finding the right combination of comfort and function is key when choosing healthcare furniture and designing patient rooms. Here are a few tips from Edwards & Hill to create the ultimate patient room.
Comfort
It’s clear that patients need to be made comfortable during their stay. But it’s also important to remember about the long hours that concerned loved ones will be spending sitting by the bedside. With this in mind, your efforts for comfort should extend past the waiting room and into the patient room. Whether it’s a comfy armchair or a sleeper sofa, anything to make visitors’ time spent there even the smallest bit more comfortable will be greatly appreciated.
Aesthetics
Whether it’s a nice piece of artwork or a cool textile design for a privacy curtain, making the area look good can drastically improve a patient’s stay. Imagine if you were the one in inpatient care — would you want to be stuck staring a drab gray walls and furniture all day? Furthermore, it’s been shown that natural aesthetics like a good dose of natural wood can dramatically improve patient mood and even recovery time.
Function
As important as comfort and aesthetics may be, function is probably the primary concern. Things like height adjustable overbed tables and whiteboards are just a couple things that come to mind when designing patient rooms to make things easier for both the patients and the staff tending to them. Remember to keep functionality, and potential multifunctionality, in mind when choosing healthcare furniture.
There’s a lot to keep in mind when designing patient rooms. Choosing the right healthcare furniture is a multifaceted process, but the results can go a long way in making inpatient care even the tiniest bit better.
Designing Patient Rooms with Edwards & Hill
Edwards & Hill Office Furniture is proud to furnish corporate offices as well as providing quality furniture for hospitality businesses, educational settings, local casinos, and healthcare facilities. Tony Hill, Managing Partner, and Hans Edwards, Partner, have been working together since 1998 to provide quality multimedia and furniture products and services to a number of different businesses and industries.
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