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Stance Healthcare’s lineup of Overbed tables provides patients with versatility and comfort in any healthcare setting.

Stance Healthcare knows that high-quality, functional healthcare furniture is not one-size-fits all. Every facility has its own unique needs and limitations. That’s why we have a variety of overbed tables to fit every need, at every price point.

Overbed tables are essential to the healthcare experience, as they allow patients to eat their meals in comfort, play games, read, write, and hold important items like medicine, remotes and cell phones. By giving patients a place to keep their things, overbed tables prevent caregivers from having to fetch items – freeing them up to focus on the health and wellness of their patients. It’s just another way Stance Healthcare supports a positive healthcare experience for everyone involved.

With our lineup of five overbed table options – the Eclipse, Transcend, Olsen, Victory, and Split-Top models – we’re proud to offer the largest product selection in the category, while continuing to identify new ways to evolve our products in ways that help our customers serve their patients better.

Each of our overbed tables can be customized with finishes to fit the aesthetic of many different applications, with functionality options like low-profile bases that can be used with recliners and low clearance beds, infinite height positioning for maximum comfort, and secondary surface tops, depending on the design. 

While each Stance Healthcare overbed table has unique features and functionalities, they all can be used in hospitals for acute and clinical care. And they are particularly useful for patients who are recovering from surgery or have physical limitations – providing them with independence in an environment where they can oftentimes feel helpless.

For a simple, affordable and functional overbed table that will last, we have our Eclipse model. Eclipse offers a seamless thermoformed top with spill containment feature and an optional vanity tray with mirror. Its simple, lightweight design and ability to work with normal beds make it the perfect choice for senior living environments.   

Our Transcend overbed table takes functionality to the next level with a seamless thermoformed top with spill-containment feature, an optional vanity tray with mirror, U-base design that fits around bed mechanisms which extend to the floor, low-profile base that’s compatible with late-model hospital beds, and pneumatic cylinder for height positioning.

For those who need a little more tabletop, our Olsen overbed table features a secondary surface area, along with a seamless thermoformed or solid surface top with spill containment feature, an optional vanity tray with mirror, U-base design that fits around bed mechanisms which extend to the floor, low-profile base that’s compatible with late-model hospital beds, and pneumatic cylinder for height positioning. Due to its affordable price point, Olsen is a great model for senior living.

Our Victory table offers a little more flexibility with its choice of a C-base or U-base design, while also boasting a seamless thermoformed top with spill containment feature, an optional vanity tray with mirror, low-profile base that’s compatible with late-model hospital beds, and pneumatic cylinder for height positioning.

And, lastly, there’s our Split Top model, designed with maximum versatility and functionality in mind. Our Split-Top overbed table boasts a seamless thermoformed top with spill containment feature, an optional vanity tray with mirror, choice of C-Base, U-base or H-base design, low-profile base that’s compatible with late-model hospital beds, pneumatic cylinder for height positioning and a secondary surface area.

From multi-feature versatility and durable, high-quality designs, to the trust and comfort that comes with partnering with Stance Healthcare’s seasoned product development and design team – we bring a lot to the table. Learn more about all the forms and functions of our overbed tables here.

About Stance Healthcare

Founded in 2006, Stance Healthcare manufactures furniture for healing environments, with a particular focus on hospitals and behavioral health facilities. Stance Healthcare has a reputation for providing high-quality products that meet the ever-evolving demands in the areas of design, comfort, safety, durability, renewability, infection control and environmental sustainability. With a strong understanding of patient-centered design, Stance Healthcare is committed to providing innovative furniture solutions that support the healing process. Please visit stancehealthcare.com for the latest news and in-depth information on Stance Healthcare and visit https://stancebh.com/ to learn more about our Behavioral Health offerings and insights.

In the same way that the pandemic highlighted the everyday heroism of healthcare workers, it has also inspired opportunities to improve the way care is delivered. Those who support healthcare environments through design and product support, like we do, can be instrumental in making such positive impacts on the patient, visitor, and care provider’s experiences. And while the learning is still in progress, one lesson from the COVID era has already changed the way we should approach healthcare facility planning for the long-term: the ever-present need to adapt.

At Stance Healthcare, we were well-positioned to rise to this challenge, as we have always taken pride in manufacturing products that are flexible and highly customizable for many healthcare settings. It’s a commitment that bore fruit amid the heart of the COVID crisis: One year into the pandemic, Stance supported our most aggressive year of new product releases – overcoming supply chain challenges and ongoing market uncertainty to bring new, cleanable, comfortable, adaptable furniture collections to facilities at a time they needed them most. From pop-up triage areas to consultative spaces, these are products that can serve many purposes in a given day – to create what our Behavioral Health Interior Designer, Suzanne Fawley, likes to refer to as “space within space” as needed.

As our catalog continues to grow, I want to highlight a few of Stance’s best “multi-tasker” collections that help support flexible spaces in healthcare settings:

• The Clover Lounge Collection: Our newest lounge collection is soft, comfortable, and acoustically more secure than standard lounge collections, providing a safe area for rest or a private consultative interaction. With endless ways to modify, including a choice of wood or powder-coated steel leg, contrasting fabrics and a moisture barrier, Clover encourages end-users to relax in a variety of lounge positions. It can be enjoyed by multiple people at once, including parents with children or by individual parties comfortably sharing the lounge chair. With its sculpted back and open seat, Clover provides comfort that feels tailored to each individual.
  
  
   
• Attessa Modular Lounge Seating: Attessa modular lounge seating and tables are designed to suit any healthcare public space, offering style, comfort and durability sufficient for high-traffic common areas, like front-of-house reception zones, as well as cafes and consultative spaces. Available for general healthcare, pediatric, and Behavioral Health settings, the collection is not only sleek and beautiful, but also designed with endless capacity to create intentional spaces within any environment.
  
  
   
• Spry Seating Collection *Coming Soon*: I’m excited to preview this coming-soon collection, which continues our commitment to creating flexible, adaptive, multi-use products for dynamic healthcare applications, including patient and exam rooms. Designed with infection control in mind, Spry is a versatile seating collection ideal for the post-COVID era, with connected linking tables to create space between patients. Featuring solid surface arm caps that come standard, Spry offers 360-clean out for maximum infection control. Also available armless to minimize touch points, Spry is exceptionally versatile for the many configurations the seats and three available sizes of linking tables can create. Look for Spry to become available later this season.
   

Core to our Improving Lives by Design brand mission, Stance is continually working to innovate new products that support improved healthcare experiences for patients, visitors, and care providers. But it’s not just our furniture itself that’s adaptable. As a family-owned company, we take pride in our ability to also be nimble from a customer service perspective, offering our customers a level of agility and flexibility, including endless options to customize, that is not commonly available in the industry.

To our wonderful customers and Stance team members, thank you for supporting our commitment to Improving Lives by Design by valuing adaptability in everything we create and do. Stay tuned for more to come from Stance in 2022!

– Carl

Stance Healthcare and Stance Behavioral Health has added four new finish colors to our growing product selections portfolio. The new finish colors – Aria, White Chocolate, Dolce Vita, and Palomino are durable custom finishes designed to last.

A unique offering in the healthcare furniture marketplace, Stance’s new color options will match across all types of finishes, including laminate, thermofoil, and wood. Although other furniture makers might offer a variety of colors in each finish, they don’t always match across all finishes.

How does that work? Take our Zurich table, for instance: It comes with a thermofoil top and wooden legs. If you picked one color for both, the finishes will still match.

Wait… isn’t it just furniture?

It might appear so. But it’s much more than that.

Anyone can put out a chair and call it a waiting room. Or, provide a place to rest for longer periods, in various healthcare environments. But thoughtful, intuitive products from Stance strive to go a bit further than that.

Our Clover Lounge Collection is a prime example of how we follow through on this commitment. These chairs – offered in one-, two-, or three-person designs – take into consideration so much more than simply providing a place to sit.

From top to bottom, every aspect of Clover is engineered to provide more comfort, more room, and convenience for the end-user: In shape (roomy for comfort for all types); in its ease-of-care (stain-resistant material); and in its amenities (such as the charging port, optional on the Clover Collection). In the same way, the finish might seem like an afterthought. But it’s yet another integral element that makes Stance’s products uniquely valuable to healthcare facilities and the people they serve.

Why finishes matter

Stance uses materials built to stand the test of time. That’s important from a budget standpoint – healthcare facilities want durable pieces that withstand wear and tear and are easy to maintain. Offering comfort and durability is a balance, as the material isn’t usually hearty – and a lot of materials aren't usually comforting. Answering this challenge, Stance strives to strike this balance with every product we manufacture, and the finishes we use play a significant role in how we achieve this.

Finishes and colors play a factor in our moods, and in commercial settings including healthcare, color selections must be intentional. For example, a fast-food restaurant might select colors that encourage busyness for quick eating, such as red; in a healthcare setting, we aim for the opposite: soothing tones, patterns, and hues that conjure a sense of calm and comfort in patients, care providers, and visitors. Finishes in Stance Behavioral Health’s collection convey a neutral feel.

What’s the advantage of Stance Healthcare’s finishes?

It’s interesting to note that furniture design for healthcare use isn’t the same as other applications.

Designers can take certification exams specifically for healthcare design, including the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers exam and the Certified Healthcare Designer® (CHID) certificate exam. Stance enlists such experts, including our Behavioral Health Interior Designer, Suzanne Fawley, CHID, to provide product design knowledge – including insights about finishes – needed to support healing environments.

Who is Stance Healthcare?

Since its founding in 2006, Stance Healthcare has made furniture for healing environments. We’ve built a reputation for building products of quality to meet evolving demands. Our products focus on:

• Comfort
• Design
• Durability
• Environmental sustainability
• Infection control
• Renewability
• Safety

Like a warm greeting, the Clover Lounge Collection welcomes users to sit back and relax in comfort. Offered in single, two-seat, and three-seat lounge chair size options, Clover is designed to surround patients, visitors, and care providers with beautiful curves and modern styling.

The Clover Lounge Collection is a highlight from Stance Healthcare. We’re a furniture maker that focuses on hospitals and behavioral health facilities.

Clover’s sculpted back and open seat enable patients, visitors, and care providers to rest comfortably as they sit for any length of time. Offering a contoured design for a more natural fit, Clover offers a place to sit in comfort, rather than within the rigid construct of typical medical-setting chairs. Its roomy design provides space for more than one person to sit, making the collection ideal for parents with children, or an individual who could benefit from more room than some smaller chair options.

The benefits of the comfortable, inviting Clover series include:

Concealed clean-out space between seat and back. Now more than ever, healthcare environments prioritize cleanability. On Clover’s one-, two-, and three-seat designs, little features like this one go far to keep a space clean, supporting easy cleanup of lost items and trash.

Engineered to exceed BIFMA testing requirements. The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturing Association is a not-for-profit trade association for business and institutional furniture makers. The Clover Lounge Collection meets its standards for comfort, safety, and sustainability.

Nylon glides protect the floor from damage. Move each piece in the Clover Lounge Collection with ease without tearing the carpet or scratching hard surfaces. These chairs are easy to maneuver.

Options

The Clover Lounge Collection offers a sleek aesthetic — but its personality comes through in the details, many of which are customizable. The following options help Clover support a seamless application of the ambiance of any healthcare setting:

• Choice of wood or metal legs. Classic or contemporary? Clover is  offered in a warm, wood leg or variety of modern, metal finishes, all of which are powder-coated.

• Contrasting fabrics. Like all of Stance Healthcare’s furniture products, Clover is designed to enhance its environment, not compete with it. Contrasting fabrics is another way Clover brings beauty to a space, while also blending in with the aesthetic.

• Power/USB ports. A feature that anticipates the needs of its end-users, especially in today’s smartphone-powered society. Patients, visitors, and care providers have the option to charge their devices while relaxing in Clover, with ports conveniently located right on the side of the chair. Clover Lounge Collection pieces can come with one or two ports optional.

• Moisture barrier. An added moisture barrier helps protect the integrity of the fabric and the appearance of the furniture. Accidents happen; with the moisture barrier, they don’t have to become permanent.

Learn more about the Clover Lounge Collection here.

Who is Stance Healthcare?

Since its founding in 2006, Stance Healthcare has made furniture for healing environments. We've built a reputation for manufacturing high-quality products to meet the evolving demands of modern healthcare settings. Our products focus on:

Comfort
Design
Durability
Environmental sustainability
Infection control
Renewability
Safety

Stance Healthcare’s patient-centered products demonstrate a commitment to innovation in furniture solutions to aid in the healing process of patients.

[CHARLOTTE, N.C.]—Suzanne Phillips Fawley, an interior designer representing Stance Healthcare, based in Kitchener, Ontario with product showrooms and healthcare contract facilities in the U.S., recently passed the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers (AAHID) examination and earned the prestigious CHID Certified Healthcare Interior Designer ® certificate.

Passage of the examination and earning the CHID credential signifies that Suzanne has met the standards for education, experience and examination and is a certified healthcare interior designer. The CHID examination requires examinees to demonstrate knowledge and experience in a variety of aspects that affect the acute care, ambulatory care and residential healthcare interior environments.

AAHID is the standard to identify those interior designers who are uniquely qualified to meet the needs and challenges of the healthcare interior design industry. The CHID certificate is the highest appellation available for a healthcare interior design professional, and this credential is what every healthcare facility should look for when choosing an interior designer.

With over 25 years of contract and Healthcare Interior Design experience, Suzanne specializes in Healthcare and Behavioral Health Interior Design, product application, and furniture product design. In her current position with Stance Healthcare, Suzanne is responsible for Behavioral Health initiatives including Behavioral Health Interior Design consulting, education efforts through CEU development, product development and Brand experience. Suzanne’s collaborations with Stance Healthcare have contributed to three HCD Nightingale Gold award wins since 2017: the Resilia Table Collection for Behavioral Health; the Frontier Collection in 2019; and most recently, in 2021 for the Flo Dining Collection for Behavioral Health. In 2021, Suzanne's CEU course, "Behavioral Health Design: Learning from the Past to Design for the Future" was ranked #1 on the IDCEC website for several weeks.

“The CHID credential only solidifies the knowledge and talent we already knew Suzanne had,” said Carl Kennedy, Stance Healthcare’s president. “Her passion and industry experience resonates in the delivery of the Stance-sponsored Behavioral Health CEU and in the product designs she so thoughtfully helps create with us.”

CHID Certified Healthcare Interior Designers ® are distinguished and qualified by education, examination, and work experience to practice healthcare interior design. The CHID appellation recognizes excellence, commitment and knowledge. It further distinguishes preeminent healthcare interior designers from other architects, designers, decorators, and interior designers.  More information about the organization may be found at www.aahid.org.

New virtual design platform will enhance space planning capabilities for users specifying Stance products in healthcare facilities

Stance Healthcare, award-winning manufacturer of general healthcare and Behavioral Health furniture, announces the launch of their CET Commercial Interiors extension from Configura. Used by thousands of people globally, the popular space planning software will now be available for the growing number of interior designers, architects and furniture dealers looking to specify Stance products in healthcare environments. 

Offering the full product selection journey within one application, the CET extension leads users through the design, specification, presentation, and purchasing phases of the space planning experience. The program allows users to apply standard finishes and materials, and see 2D and 3D renderings and pricing, among other features.

“Launching the CET extension means more designers and facility planners now have the opportunity to envision Stance’s versatile product selections in various healthcare settings,” said Carl Kennedy, Stance Healthcare’s president. “Demand continues to grow for this service within the healthcare design industry. Offering the CET extension elevates our position in the market, while more importantly increasing value and efficiency for our customers. Adding CET supports our commitment to Improving Lives by Design, as we strive to be a true partner and support for all of our customers in every phase of their product selection experience.”

Users of Stance’s CET extension will enjoy access to both a Stance Healthcare and Stance Behavioral Health catalog, with the company’s entire seating and table product portfolio now available and casegoods to follow later in 2022. 

To learn more about Configura’s CET software for commercial interiors, visit https://www.configura.com/industries/commercial-interiors. Follow the latest insights and product releases from Stance Healthcare and Stance Behavioral Health on LinkedIn and on their websites, here and here. 

Happy New Year! Today, I am reflecting on a remarkable past year for Stance Healthcare, feeling grateful for the effort, passion, and talent fueling our growing brand into 2022. As we hit the ground running on many initiatives for the New Year, I want to pause and recognize the momentum that’s carrying us – and what has made this past 12 months so exceptional. 

Highlights from an incredible 2021 include: 

• Record-setting new product releases: 2021 was truly a year for the books. We celebrated our 15th year in business with a record number of new products for general healthcare and Behavioral Health settings – introducing 14 all-new products and four line extensions, to be exact. While the new product numbers alone are impressive, our fast-paced product development pipeline is a testament to what I’m most proud of: Our commitment to Improving Lives by Design is not only working, it’s needed more than ever in this industry. 

• A new brand mission: We kicked off the busy year by introducing our Improving Lives by Design brand – a mission that we’ve lived by for quite some time, but found the perfect words for in 2021. Along with our new brand mission statement, we revealed two new Stance websites and refreshed marketing materials to better provide our customers and partners with rich product information, case studies, and beautiful visuals that better reflect our new look, feel and tone. We also continued to give back financially to several organizations that reflect this mission, including: The United Way, Salvation Army, Make-A-Wish Canada, Hockey Helps the Homeless, and The Food Bank of Waterloo Region.
   
• #1 ranked IDCEC Behavioral Health education: In 2021, Stance sponsored an IDCEC CEU course created and presented by our Behavioral Health Interior Designer, Suzanne Fawley. The course, entitled “Behavioral Health Design: Learning from the Past to Design for the Future”, quickly gained popularity among those looking to deepen their understanding of Behavioral Health design. Over the course of the year, Suzanne presented 17 CEUs to over 500 interior designers and architects – and the course was ranked #1 on the IDCEC website for several weeks!
   
• Another HCD award win: In 2021, we maintained our commitment to excellence in every product we introduced. We’re grateful when that commitment is recognized by our industry peers – and in October, we were thrilled to take home our third Nightingale Award win at the Healthcare Design (HCD) Expo + Conference. The Flo Dining Collection for Behavioral Health, one of our 2021 new releases, won the Nightingale GOLD Award! 
   
• Opening the Charlotte Showroom: While COVID persisted, we took steps to safely welcome visitors to our showroom in Charlotte, N.C. The space is an ideal setting for designers, facility managers, architects, and many others in the healthcare industry to explore our products, learn best practices and ways to modify for different settings, and collaborate on new ideas that support healing healthcare environments. 
   

All of this passion and great work in 2021 has prepared the way for another defining year for our Stance team and the products we thoughtfully bring to the healthcare marketplace. In 2022, look for several new products for Behavioral Health and general healthcare, new education (hopefully, in-person as well as virtual!) and networking opportunities, and more resources than ever before to support the development of more healing healthcare environments. 

From all of us at Stance Healthcare, stay well and thank you for all of your support! 

Warm regards,

Carl Kennedy

Following last year’s virtual program, Stance Healthcare was excited to once again participate in the HCD Conference + Expo in person this year. Our team enjoyed several productive days of networking with peers, making new industry connections and most of all, drawing inspiration from the many new healthcare product designs on exhibit. 

We were also proud to showcase many of Stance’s new, coming-soon, and best-selling collections for general healthcare and Behavioral Health, including: 

Clover Lounge Collection

Flo Dining Collection 

Gem Occasional Table Collection

Jensen Lounge Collection 

Verity Lounge Collection

Valet Lounge Collection

Spry Seating Collection *coming soon in early 2022

Capping off a great event, we were honored to close out the conference by taking home the Nightingale GOLD Award for our Flo Dining Collection for Behavioral Health. The annual Nightingale Awards recognize products related to the healthcare built environment, which contribute positively to a healing environment.

Following a long first year marked by COVID-19, Stance team members in attendance were energized by the event’s warm, inviting programming format, and vendor displays that complemented our brand mission: Improving Lives by Design. As our Behavioral Health Interior Designer, Suzanne Fawley, put it: “The event exhibits were bright, happy, thoughtful, and approachable, and the quality of products on display have never been better. Everyone was interacting with such warmth, glad to be reunited again – and I left feeling so inspired about how our products can support better healthcare experiences for so many people.”

“Reuniting as a community in Cleveland gave me reasons for optimism and celebration,” said Stance Healthcare’s Vice President of Customer Relations, Bill Coble. “This time of year I like to take stock, and appreciate all the challenges and successes the last 12 months brought – and this year, one of those successes is experiencing the genuine enthusiasm for Stance’s Improving Lives by Design mission at HCD.”

Read more about the 2021 HCD Expo + Conference, including our Nightingale GOLD Award, here. We look forward to returning to the 2022 event in San Antonio!

In the spirit of giving, it’s a tradition at Stance Healthcare to collect donations for the annual Toy Mountain Campaign.

This year staff had the option to donate toys or participate in several different raffles to raise funds for toy purchases. Arlene, a talented member of the Stance team donated carrot cakes, a glorified gingerbread house, and two festive centerpieces to the raffle. These ticket purchases raised over $1000 and allowed us the opportunity to purchase 50+ toys for kids of all ages.  Between staff donations and toy purchases, we were able to donate 70+ toys.

A special thank you to TBS Transportation Ltd for delivering the toys to the Salvation Army, who will distribute them to families in the community who are struggling this season.

Uniquely designed for each user’s comfort and convenience, Clover launches today from the Healthcare Design award-winning furniture manufacturer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Stance Healthcare, a leader in furniture design and manufacturing for general and Behavioral Healthcare facilities, introduces the Clover Lounge Collection featuring three comfortable, inviting options. With its sculpted back and open seat that encourages relaxed seating positions, Clover provides comfort that feels tailored to each individual.

The new lounge collection offers freedom of movement for patients, visitors, and care providers, with a curvilinear design that encourages end-users to relax in a variety of lounge positions. Ideal for today’s modern healthcare settings, Clover can be enjoyed by multiple people at once, including parents with children or by individual parties comfortably sharing the lounge chair.

Clover is designed to surround patients, visitors and care providers with beautiful curves and modern styling, and is offered in single, two-seat and three-seat lounge chair size options. An available power/USB port is conveniently offered on either one or both sides of the chair, further enhancing Clover’s practicality and relevance to today’s healthcare environments.

Clover features engineered plywood for enhanced durability, and a nylon webbed seat deck for increased comfort. Its chair legs are offered in a choice of wood or powder coated steel leg. And continuing Stance Healthcare’s commitment to blending comfort with durability, Clover features nylon glides to protect floors from damage. Other options include contrasting fabrics and a moisture barrier.

 “With Clover, we have the high-quality fabrics and finishes you’d expect from Stance products, with the added benefit of being able to accommodate a family or multiple users at once,” said Carl Kennedy, Stance Healthcare’s president. “Not only is Clover a beautiful and very comfortable lounge collection, it’s more importantly a series that anticipates the needs of multiple types of users at once – whether you need to charge your phone, or comfort a child or loved one in a relaxed position.”  

The Clover release is the latest collection of several to launch this year from Stance Healthcare, which began 2021 with an aggressive product development agenda.

New releases from Stance Healthcare and Stance Behavioral Health for 2021 also include:

Terrace Outdoor Collection for Behavioral Health (released in September)
Flo Dining Collection for Behavioral Health (released in July)
Pier Tables for Behavioral Health (released in July)
Gem Occasional Table (released in May)
Iris Occasional Table and Iris Occasional Table for Behavioral Health (released in May)
Valet and Valet for Behavioral Health (released in April)
Jensen Guest Seating Collection and Jensen Lounge Collection (released in March)

Follow Stance Healthcare’s blog, LinkedIn, and Instagram to stay up-to-date on product releases, as well as engaging content centered on Stance’s Improving Lives by Design mission that educates and inspires.

About Stance Healthcare

Founded in 2006, Stance Healthcare manufactures furniture for healing environments, with a particular focus on hospitals and behavioral health facilities. Stance Healthcare has a reputation for providing high-quality products that meet the ever-evolving demands in the areas of design, comfort, safety, durability, renewability, infection control and environmental sustainability. With a strong understanding of patient-centered design, Stance Healthcare is committed to providing innovative furniture solutions that support the healing process. Please visit stancehealthcare.com for the latest news and in-depth information on Stance Healthcare and visit https://stancebh.com/ to learn more about our Behavioral Health offerings and insights.