Healthcare Construction and Design
22 February 2008
As in any other industry, healthcare is constantly evolving and being pressured to grow with the times. The new generation of healthcare facilities are required to face an ever changing environment, where advanced technologies, building flexibility and patient satisfaction as an obvious piece of their clinical care, must be considered.
Robust US building trends within the healthcare industry have exploded over the past eight years and are projected to increase from US$34 billion in 2005 to a projected US$45.5 billion in 2009, reaching $200 billion over the next decade. These figures do not even touch the expanding global medical market.
An estimated 72+ million, ageing baby boomers, are putting demands on healthcare systems both with their medical needs and their desire for a positive hospital experience. Coupled with many facilities built in the 50's , whose structure and design are now obsolete, patients are looking towards the comforts of hospitality, not solely hospital technology, within the healing process.
Changing technologies, geographic shifts, consolidations, green technologies, privatization are also forcing owners, administrators, architects, designers, contractors and the community to expand their view of evidence-based design in the restructuring process. Demands are overwhelming, but there are ways to meet these goals in cost-efficient and effective ways.
TESS USA Inc. has been a purveyor of Backlit Views to Nature™ for the past twelve years. Staying current with the rapidly emerging movement throughout the global medical market, they help facilities transform sterile environments into beautiful settings. The TESS programs offer a means to affordably enhance the facilities competitive market edge, while providing optimal healing outcomes which address the body, mind and spirit of patients.
It's well documented in white papers and journals from medical personnel & professors, to healthcare architects & designers, that patient healing/response times, medication amounts and the fear generated in high level procedures diminishes through the use of biophilic design.
Installed in all 50 states and internationally, TESS continues to raise its product line to meet the growing demands of new technologies and advancing medical equipment. These product lines help keep a facility vibrant and responsive to patient, staff and administrative expectations and desires.
One of the more difficult procedures is with the loud and body limiting MRI machines. TESS provides two 1 inch profile MRI systems for these rooms. The revolutionary MRI-EL system is lightweight, flexible and can be configured into any shape - circular, pyramidal, oval, square or rectangular. The TESS LED light box, (which can be used in any division, as well as MRI), is the most advance on the market to date. It offers top shelf components throughout all its electronics, has exceptional light distribution and doesn't show color degradation in aging, as other competitor's products do.
To lift its product line further, TESS has collaborated with Chicago Metallic Suspended Ceiling Systems for off the shelf, simple to install, frame and grid ceiling units to showcase the TESS backlit Views to Nature™. These units offer a remarkable variety of applications and styles for the customer to choose from to enhance their settings.
As we advance forward, TESS sees itself as a key player in the community of healthcare experts whose goal and vision it is to create positive, productive, and safe healing environments.
