Today, increasing competition in the marketplace has forced health care facilities to focus on incorporating design trends within their interiors that make for more fulfilling patient experiences. In recent years, health care design has seen several trends in healthcare interior design come and go, but some look here to stay for a while and are right now shaping the way medical facilities look.
These health care design trends, although aiming to project different looks, have similar objectives in mind-create functional and aesthetically appealing spaces, increase patient satisfaction, aid the healing process, increase the comfort levels of visitors, and facilitate the creation of a productive work environment. The following are some health care design trends that are currently trending now:
Imparting residential warmth and coziness to patient care spaces for increased comfort.
Research in patient care has shown that there is a positive relation between healing and the comfort level that a patient experiences. People are known to recuperate quicker when they are in the comforts of their homes.
So a health care design trend has evolved in recent years where medical spaces and especially those inhabited by patients are being infused with elements that simulate a "home away from home" feeling. The decor of patient rooms are increasingly sporting design elements that ooze residential warmth and coziness.
Incorporating infection control measures for better comfortably and easier upkeep.
Health care design trends are in many ways influenced by the latest research findings that dwell on patient care and safety measures. Controlling infection in hospital areas is a major area of concern of many such research studies.
Nobody likes the "icky" feeling when you're in a hospital, so to help clean up the way you feel, we take cue from these studies and try to incorporate the latest health care design trends that will minimize infection.
For instance, medical interiors incorporate easy-to-clean and disinfect furniture pieces like those with rounded edges and clean lines in the plan for patient areas and waiting and examination rooms. We also suggest that our clients use furniture pieces that come brushed with anti-microbial finishes, like silver ion infused in metal or wood.