HealthCare
From cleanliness and accessibility to heavy wear, wayfinding and promoting a healing environment — hospitals face many daily demands. Your flooring is no exception, and it’s a crucial part of creating a quality care setting.
Reception Area
Entrances are the first area patients, families and visitors see in your hospital. They help your patrons locate services, and they see the heaviest foot traffic and rolling loads. You’ll want a durable, welcoming floor that promotes your design vision and makes a strong first impression. We recommend luxury vinyl tile.
Corridors
Corridors are the main arteries of your hospital and see heavy use 24-7, including foot traffic and heavy rolling loads, such as equipment carts, stretchers, med carts and wheelchairs. To minimize disruptions, flooring in corridors requires rapid installation and must be highly durable to minimize maintenance. Themed and patterned flooring with lively color can help you create clear paths that identify care areas.
Patient Rooms
In many hospitals, patient rooms are designed to emulate home-like environments. As these rooms do not require aseptic flooring, you have more options for materials, adhesives and installation methods. You have the flexibility to specify warm, inviting flooring with natural textures.
Emergency and operating rooms
Emergency and operating rooms must meet the most strict infection control requirements and remain usable 24-7. You’ll want easy-to-clean materials that promote cleanliness. Using smooth or low-texture flooring and proper installation keeps dirt and fluids from slipping beneath the surface of your floor.
Clinics
Flooring should promote stress reduction, comfort and 24-7 access with materials that allow rapid installation and minimize maintenance.We recommend flooring options within these categories that have protective coatings, as they’ll resist scratches and minimize the need for waxing, buffing and chemical cleaning. Free-floating LVT and materials with adhesive backings will reduce installation times and disruption to these critical care areas.
Laboratory
Medical labs, with specialties like clinical testing, blood bank, anatomical pathology or microbiology, must meet around-the-clock and highly time-sensitive quality demands.
As hospital-based clinical laboratories struggle to keep up with new diagnostic technologies, genetics pathology, and increased automation, high-performing flooring systems can greatly support the efforts involved in maintaining a contaminant-free environment.