The healthcare industry is constantly evolving and changing with the industry, market, and socio-economic trends, and it’s important for business leaders in this sector to be the drivers of positive change. From introducing new technologies to elevating the interior design of the facility, to hiring better staff and the top doctors from around the country, there’s plenty you can do to make your healthcare business stand out. One of the positive changes you can make that can have a profound long-term impact on your business is to switch to LED lighting.
Improving the lighting in your healthcare institution can have a profound psychological effect on your staff and your patients, and it can help your business thrive in various ways. If nothing else, LED lighting will help you eliminate the money-draining problem of constantly replacing burnt-out light bulbs, which can be a real money-saver on its own. With all of that in mind, here are the five important ways LED lighting can transform your healthcare business.
Create a more welcoming environment
Many people, regardless of age and gender, dread the very notion of going to the doctor’s office. Those who are coming in for a regular checkup as well as those who are checking in for a complex medical procedure need reassurance that they are in safe hands and that your medical practice is the safest place to be. Naturally, you’ll have a much easier time putting their minds at ease if you create a welcoming ambiance and a positive setting through LED lighting. Given the fact that LED lights are highly customizable and scalable, you can set the tone of your waiting room just right to enhance comfort and ensure their peace of mind.
You can easily choose the correlated color temperature (CCT) for your lighting and thus scale the ambiance to your exact needs depending on the function of the room. Naturally, waiting rooms will have a different color temperature than other areas like hallways, patient rooms, clean rooms, and others.
Elevate energy efficiency and sustainability
There are many tangible benefits to choosing LED lighting over its traditional counterpart, one of which is the obvious energy-saving potential, particularly in the mid and long term. The road to true sustainability for the healthcare industry is long and requires many changes that include technology, digital transformation, automation, and other innovative solutions, which makes lighting just one piece of the energy conservation puzzle. Nevertheless, this is a vital piece, and when LED lighting is implemented across the entire facility, it can significantly improve the overall energy-efficiency of your business.
What’s more, LED lighting makes it easier to achieve long-term sustainability if you choose to recycle old LED light bulbs diligently. That said, LED lights have a long lifespan, so you won’t have to worry about recycling and replacing them for as much as 50,000 hours. That is almost six years of uninterrupted illumination.
Ensure compliance and safety
The healthcare industry has some of the most stringent laws and regulations that govern the functioning of every aspect of a medical facility – lighting included. In many countries around the world, you can’t equip your medical facility with any type of lighting you please, as it needs to be a lighting scheme that ensures patient safety and compliance across the board.
As the modern light fittings for clean environments become more stringent and complex over time, it is imperative for business leaders to make the switch to LED lighting to avoid legal ramifications and elevate the overall safety of their medical institution. This will not only ensure compliance, but also elevate patient satisfaction, improve working conditions, and more.
Improving patient comfort
One of the key benefits of LED lighting is improved patient comfort and satisfaction. It’s not just about the comfort of the waiting rooms, it’s also about the overarching feeling of peace and security in the hallways, the numerous doctors’ offices, and the patient rooms.
When a patient is staying in a hospital, it’s important that the lighting in their room is optimized and diffused to inspire feelings of peace and tranquility, in order to improve the recovery process and put their minds at ease.
Boost exterior lighting for aesthetics and functionality
Last but not least, remember that improving the exterior lighting scheme is just as important as the interior lighting and that it can serve both an aesthetic and a functional purpose. For one, exterior LED lighting can greatly improve the visual appeal of your medical facility and the overarching design, but more importantly, it can help guide patients, visitors, and ambulance drivers to the key areas of the facility. This, in turn, elevates the overall efficiency of your business and helps save lives.
Wrapping up
Improving the lighting in healthcare facilities is an important step towards greater business efficiency and long-term success. With these insights in mind, you can start introducing LED lighting into your medical facility to take your business to the next level.
Written by Chloe Taylor
About the Author
Chloe is an interior design consultant from Adelaide and a regular contributor to Smooth Decorator. She loves everything related to decor, aesthetic and lifestyle topics. She is also passionate about photography. Her biggest dream is to travel the whole world and take some stunning photographs of beautiful places. Beside all this, she enjoys drinking coffee and reading a beautiful book from time to time. You can find her on Facebook and Twitter.
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