Hospitals can be stressful environments for both staff and patients. The last thing you need in the health care industry is to exacerbate the stress and nerves that are already at a high point.
However, health care facilities can’t only focus on making their patients relaxed, as nice as that sounds. You’re also under intense pressure to deliver superb quality health care, which includes testing, examinations, operations and pristine record-keeping.
LED lighting can offer the best of both worlds. Here are a few ways that LED products can benefit the health care industry.
- More accurate testing
LED lighting creates better visibility with higher levels of luminance, or brightness, than other lighting sources. These higher levels of luminance mean that details can be more easily seen even when the light is dimmed. As any health care worker knows, details are everything in this industry. Health evaluations, testing and surgeries are not areas where you want to be taking risks with your accuracy. - Improved patient moods
Hospital patients and visitors often feel anxious and uncomfortable in the clinical hospital environment. But the overall ambience of a hospital, dental office or clinic can impact patient moods, for better or worse. LED lighting can lend this clinical setting a warmer and more human feel by illuminating colors and providing soft, soothing light to waiting rooms, hallways and patient bedrooms while maintaining crisp and clear visibility in doctors’ offices. Not to mention that the last thing you need in a hospital is a buzzing and flickering fluorescent bulb, which is sure to aggravate patients, if not bring on a headache.
- Minimize downtime
LED lights last, on average, 40-50 times longer than incandescent bulbs, and 2-3 times longer than CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps). In health care facilities, especially those that are open 24 hours a day, light maintenance should be the least of your worries, not on your perpetual to-do list. Furthermore, expensive hospital equipment like PET scanners cost you money when idle. LED lights can help keep you efficient around the clock and in every room and office.
- Save on costs
Hospitals are nearly always strapped for cash. Switching to LED lighting can save up to 50% on a hospital’s electricity bill. LED bulbs use only 10% the amount of energy used by an incandescent bulb and only half the amount used by CFLs. This makes LED bulbs the most efficient on the planet. You’re not only being environmentally-friendly when you switch to LED, you’re also being cost-efficient. Saving on that electricity bill will leave you with more cash for equipment, technological updates and high-quality patient care.
- Deliver a clear message
Health care facilities can be a nightmare to navigate both for patients and visitors. Relying on your staff to become traffic directors due to a lack of effective signage only reduces efficiency. Healthcare facilities should use electronic signage, both outside and inside the facility to help visitors meet their needs. Digital signs, with their clear, bright, easy-to-read displays can deliver custom messages and improve the healthcare experience.
If you feel it’s time to update your health care facility, consider switching to LED lighting and digital signage. Not only can you improve the overall patient experience and increase visibility for added accuracy, but you can also save money and time, which are all important factors of any hospital or clinic.
