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From Common Areas to Patient Rooms: Visa Lighting Brightens Healthcare Spaces Throughout
Lighting in healthcare environments goes beyond physical illumination - it requires thoughtful design tailored to the diverse needs of each space. From patient rooms with clinical functionality to lobby areas focused on aesthetics, a range of lighting fixtures is necessary to satisfy.
At Visa Lighting, we provide versatile, performance-driven solutions that simultaneously enhance comfort, safety, and well-being throughout a facility.
Lighting Healthcare: The Big Picture
Overall, the primary objectives of healthcare lighting fixtures are performance, comfort, and clinical effectiveness. These solutions must also meet standards for code compliance, infection control, and ease of cleaning.
Visa Lighting designs products that not only address these technical demands of healthcare spaces but also elevate the experience of patients, visitors, and staff.
Start with First Impressions: Entrances
Before you enter a healthcare space, you must first locate the entrance. Visa Lighting’s outdoor solutions can act as wayfinding tools to ensure that entrances are visible and inviting. From sconces mounted on building columns to ground- or wall-mounted solutions highlighting signage, our lighting fixtures enhance visibility and aesthetics.
Recommended Solutions: Advantus, Avatar, Cypress, Air Foil, Southridge, Northridge, Pla, and Scope.
Welcome In: Registration and Lobby Areas
Lobbies and reception areas set the tone for the entire facility. Whether it's a large hospital atrium or a modest check-in desk, lighting plays a crucial role in shaping the first impression. You will want to make a warm and welcoming impression on those coming in.
In larger spaces, Sequence is a popular choice. Additionally, Zume In adds visual interest with its creative cluster configurations. For more intimate settings, our smaller solutions, such as Muse, Nacelle, or Rae, can surround registration and information desks with light that invites.
Supporting Staff: Nurse Stations
Nurse stations require lighting that supports accuracy, communication, and alertness. Our glare-free ambient and task lighting minimizes eye strain and enhances visibility. Circadian-supporting options help regulate staff alertness throughout the day and night.
Recommended Solutions: Symmetry, Unity 2x2, Visage.
Calm the Mind: Waiting Rooms and Common Areas
In spaces where emotions can often escalate, lighting should soothe. The use of warm, inviting illumination can reduce stress for patients and their families in waiting rooms. These principles also apply to common areas such as break rooms, cafeterias, and stairways.
Our Sconces, such as Anara, Naya, Bliss Square/Round, Basics, Wrap, Mini Colonnade, Cypress, Select, Unity, and Theo, offer soft, comforting illumination. Furthermore, Serenity and Unity table lamps can be secured to furniture and include integrated charging outlets, adding both utility and security.
From Room to Room: Corridors
Corridors with consistent, safe, and energy-efficient illumination are ideal, especially in 24/7 facilities.
In doctor’s offices, you can use the sconces previously mentioned to create a warm, residential feel. In hospitals, consider Harmony 2x2 general use instead of traditional flat panels for a more welcoming overhead aesthetic.
Hospitals also typically have multiple circuits for the corridor lighting. Some are on emergency power for Life Safety, some are on a Night Light (NL) circuit, and the remaining are on the Normal power circuit. Visa Lighting’s tunable, dimmable options can adapt to each use case and help support circadian lighting schedules through control systems.
Patient Rooms: Comfort Meets Clinical Precision
There are many lighting considerations to think about when it comes to patient rooms. However, the goal is to strike a balance between clinical need and residential comfort.
Overbed Lighting: Ceiling-mounted, multi-function fixtures provide ambient, exam, and reading light. Our overbed products feature tunable white options, low-glare design, and 3000K/3500K/4000K color temps, with 90+ CRI and optional night lights. The Unity and Serenity families include matching sconces and table lamps for cohesive design.
Headwall Lighting: Direct/indirect fixtures integrated with medical systems offer varied light levels for ambient and task lighting. Optional Lumicor diffusers add texture and style. Visa Lighting headwall products ensure cleanability, compliance, and patient control.
Vanity Lighting: Lighting fixtures designed for grooming and hygiene, providing soft, glare-free illumination while listed for damp and wet locations as needed. Our vanity lights deliver performance with design appeal. Where robust solutions are needed for high-abuse environments without sacrificing aesthetics, our Sole mirror combines soft LED lighting integrated behind an impact-resistant polycarbonate mirror with ligature-resistant design features.
Sconce Lighting: Provides diffused, warm spectrum illumination either along a hall or corridor space as a way-finding design method or for task lighting in the family area of a patient room. Sconces provide a decorative touch to soften environments and soften an institutional atmosphere.
Tunable Lighting: Available within the industry standard range of 2700K-6500K at 90CRI, through the full range and offered with 0-10V control and DALI-controlled offerings, controls supplied by others. Our tunable solutions may help to support circadian rhythms, thereby improving sleep, mood, and mental wellness. We are actively expanding tunable capabilities across our healthcare portfolio.
From welcoming lobbies to restful patient rooms, Visa Lighting provides tailored, high-performance lighting that meets the demands of modern healthcare environments. Durability, compliance, and comfort are of the utmost importance to us, and each one of our luminaires reflects these values to thoroughly support healing and productivity.