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The highly anticipated item is ideal for general healthcare and senior living facilities.

KITCHENER, ON – Stance Healthcare, a furniture designer and manufacturer specializing in general healthcare and Behavioral Health settings, announces the Rise Adjustable Dining Room Table. This piece is designed to cater to healthcare and senior living facilities' unique needs. This re-imagined table offers exceptional functionality, durability, and aesthetic appeal.

The Rise Adjustable Dining Room Table boasts impressive features that enhance usability and accessibility. The table features a 7" height adjustment capability, and individuals can easily customize the table's height to their desired comfort level. The paddle activation mechanism ensures smooth adjustments, accommodating users of all abilities. In addition, the table's X-base is equipped with adjustable nylon glides, providing stability on various surfaces.

The Rise Adjustable Dining Room Table is constructed using multi-gauge powder-coated steel, ensuring durability and longevity. Its frame incorporates a 5" diameter and 3 ½' telescoping steel column, providing stability and strength. In addition, the frame construction is meticulously crafted to ensure a robust structure that withstands the rigors of daily use.

The top materials of the Rise Adjustable Dining Room Table are carefully chosen to offer functionality and visual appeal. The polyurethane no-drip edge, with a top thickness of 1 ¼", provides a seamless and hygienic surface resistant to spills. The urethane edge is molded around a 1 ⅛" laminated top, offering a sleek and modern profile. Alternatively, the table is also available with a PVC or wood edge top, both with a thickness of 1" for a classic look.

Height adjustment for the Rise Adjustable Dining Room Table is achieved using high-quality hardware, including a 300n or 350n gas spring, depending on the top style. The hardware ensures smooth and controlled movement, allowing users to modify the table's height to their desired position easily.

"The Rise Adjustable Dining Room Table showcases our commitment to delivering exceptional furniture solutions that meet the unique needs of environments it will serve," said Carl Kennedy, CEO, Stance Healthcare "With its innovative features and sturdy construction, this table sets a new standard for accessible and comfortable dining."

The new release supports Stance's signature design philosophy, which aims to improve the healthcare experience for patients, visitors, and care providers through comfortable, beautiful, long-lasting, and easy-to-clean products. In addition, Stance Healthcare remains committed to providing comprehensive furniture solutions for healthcare and senior living environments.

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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 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.

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Patient-Centered Design: Empowering Individuals in Their Healing Journey

In the ever-evolving world of healthcare, the importance of creating healing environments is becoming increasingly recognized. Patients’ well-being, comfort, and recovery are influenced by the design of healthcare facilities and the furniture within them. In this blog, we will explore the latest trends and innovations in the healthcare furniture industry that prioritize patient comfort, well-being, and the overall functionality of clinical spaces.

1. Hospitalized Patient Sleep Quality:

Sleep quality is a crucial aspect of patient recovery. Studies show hospitalized patients often report poor sleep due to lights, noise, and discomfort. Healthcare facilities strive to create “healing environments” that address these issues. Investing in comfortable beds, ensuring privacy, and providing acoustic comfort contribute to improved patient sleep quality. Single rooms are also preferred over multioccupancy rooms as they have been statistically shown to promote longer and better sleep.
 

2. Designing for Well-Being:

Patients desire comforting and joyful environments that enable autonomy and control. Supportive healthcare design incorporates a sense of control, social support, and positive distractions. Access to nature is recognized as a stress-reducing and comforting factor, leading to an emphasis on incorporating nature-related design elements in healing spaces. Creating a sense of familiarity in an otherwise foreign environment helps patients feel more at ease.

3. Designing Pediatric Rooms:

Pediatric patients require specialized care and attention to their unique needs. Designing pediatric rooms involves:

• Providing a sense of control to young patients.
• Supporting privacy.
• Implementing pain-reduction and distraction methods.

Attention to sensory elements, such as soothing colors and interactive furniture, is crucial in creating a child-friendly environment.

4. Transforming Clinical Spaces:

Healthcare facilities are shifting their focus from purely clinical spaces to healing environments. This involves incorporating more natural light, using softer lighting, and creating zen spaces and gardens. Comfortable furniture, soft color palettes, and quality acoustics are introduced to promote relaxation and reduce patient stress.

Trends, Problems, and Needs in Healthcare Furniture:

1. Agile Hospitals:
The experience with the pandemic has emphasized the need for agile hospitals. Flexibility in design allows spaces to be transformed quickly and effectively to adapt to changing circumstances. Multi-use environments serving various purposes are becoming a top priority for healthcare facilities.

2. Empowering Patients:
Modern healthcare design recognizes the importance of patient empowerment. Giving patients control over certain aspects of their environment, such as lighting, sound, and seat selection, fosters a sense of ownership and comfort during their stay.

3. Personalized Design:
The era of the “one-size-fits-all” approach is fading away. Hospitals now understand that different patient demographics, such as pediatric or elderly patients, require tailored setups to cater to their specific needs and preferences.

4. Material Innovations:
In a healthcare environment, surface areas like table tops and arm caps are a critical design aspect of a given space — they can affect everything from an area’s safety and cleanability, to its aesthetics and comfort. Increasingly in the post-COVID era, surface finish selections are a top consideration for designers and facility planners when specifying products for healthcare.

• Solid, non-porous surfaces, for one, are easy to clean and extremely durable.
• Made from natural ingredients, Marmoleum’s benefits are threefold: it’s a completely sustainable material, it contributes to healthy indoor air quality, and it is available in a wide variety of colors.

5. Staff Comfort and Efficiency:
Efficient healthcare environment design not only benefits patients but also supports the well-being of hospital staff. Comfortable and functional furniture reduces physical strain on staff, increasing retention rates and fostering a happier work environment.

The healthcare furniture industry is witnessing significant advancements in creating healing environments prioritizing patient well-being and comfort. Trends such as incorporating nature-related elements, personalizing spaces, and ensuring staff efficiency are shaping the future of healthcare environment design. By staying updated with the latest innovations, healthcare facilities can continue providing the best possible care and support for their patients and staff. 

The Stance team is excited to announce our attendance at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo this September 19th to 21st in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are excited to be present, collaborating with industry colleagues, and learning from industry professionals. Located at booth #202, Stance is showcasing the newest innovations in healthcare and behavioral health including some of our favorites:

Flo table and chairs: Comfort and durability intersect with our Flo Dining Collection. The ergonomic, calming architecture and color palette provide an aesthetic finish that is perfect for any high-use environment.

Rosetta:  The pinnacle of stylish and comfortable, the Rosetta Modular Seating Collection delivers endless durability with its heavy-duty plinth base and steel bottom plate. The coordinating tables have a Solid Surface table top making it easy to clean while still maintaining a sophisticated look in any space.

Valet: Thoughtfully designed, Valet surrounds patients with comfort. With its soft edges, contemporary aesthetic, and varying chair heights and sizes for ease of use, this chair is a perfect fit for any healthcare environment.

Spry: The sleek, modern, and versatile, Spry prioritizes comfortability and infection control by being easy to clean and flexible in sizing options and client usage. The collection is sure to be a perfect match for your next project!

Pavillion:  The heavy-duty Pavillion drum table is fully customizable and built to last. With durable features including Solid Surface table tops and a Marmoleum plinth base, this table is a safe option in any healthcare setting.

Prepare to be educated, inspired, and enlightened by all the innovations and insights the healthcare industry has to offer. We invite you to join us at the conference on September 20th where you will get FREE admission! Click the link and register for your spot today – we can’t wait to meet you!

Exploring the Crucial Role of Space Planning Software in Interior Design

In the ever-evolving world of interior design, innovation and efficiency are paramount. At Stance Healthcare, we recognize the crucial role that space planning software plays in streamlining the design process and creating remarkable spaces. In this blog, we proudly showcase cutting-edge space planning platforms and explore how they empower designers who specify our products and dealer designers to transform their vision into reality, with a particular focus on healthcare and behavioral health interior design.

Supporting Designers and Dealers:
Recognizing that not projects have unlimited resources, we extend support to dealer designers through our in-house space planning services, utilizing the CET platform. This helps ensure seamless integration of our furniture into their designs, resulting in aesthetically pleasing and functional spaces that exceed client expectations. To access our in-house design services, simply email our team, and we will assist in the design process.

The Power of Collaboration:
Effective communication between designers and clients is essential in any design project. With our 3D CAD, 2D CAD, and Revit symbols readily available on our website, designers can easily collaborate with clients, presenting interactive 3D models that bring their ideas to life. This interactive approach fosters stronger relationships and greater client involvement, making the design process more enjoyable and engaging for everyone involved.

Unlocking Creativity with 2020 Cloud:
Stance is proud to be on 2020 Cloud, leveraging the advanced 2020 Giza and 2020 CAP software programs. This powerful combination provides designers with an extensive library of design elements, allowing them to unleash their creativity and experiment with various furniture, fixtures, and finishes. With access to these sophisticated tools, designers can push the boundaries of design and create truly extraordinary spaces that align with their vision and exceed client expectations.

Exploring the CET Platform:
As part of Stance’s commitment to providing designers and dealers with unparalleled support, they proudly embrace the CET platform (Configura). With its intuitive interface and powerful features, CET enables designers to bring their creative visions to life and streamline the design process. From optimizing space layouts to visualizing furniture configurations, CET empowers designers to create remarkable interiors. Exploring our extensive CET catalog showcases our exceptional products to further enhance the experience.

Designing for Healthcare and Behavioral Health:
The healthcare and behavioral health sectors require specialized expertise in interior design. At Stance, we understand these field’s unique challenges and opportunities. Our space planning software caters to the specific needs of healthcare environments, ensuring that the designs prioritize patient well-being, staff efficiency, and seamless workflows. By leveraging our space planning tools, designers can optimize layouts, ensure proper circulation paths, and strategically place furniture to create calming and therapeutic spaces that promote healing and wellness.

At Stance, we are dedicated to empowering designers and dealer designers with state-of-the-art space planning software that enhances efficiency and creativity. Our commitment to supporting the healthcare and behavioral health sectors further sets us apart, as we understand the impact of well-designed spaces on patient outcomes and staff productivity.

By embracing our space planning tools and collaborating with clients through interactive 3D models, designers can elevate their projects to new heights. With Stance, the future of interior design is bright, efficient, and focused on creating spaces that improve lives.

For more information about our space planning tools and offerings, please visit our website at www.stancehealthcare.com/space-planning. 
 

Stylish and Functional Nightstands for Patients

Stance Healthcare has continued to innovate furniture solutions with the extension to our renowned Gibraltar line of patient room furniture. With two new nightstands and a double platform bed, the enhanced Gibraltar collection offers a comprehensive solution for creating comfortable and healing environments. Discover how these new additions can benefit patients and healthcare providers.

Nightstands for Convenient Storage and Accessibility:
The new Gibraltar line extension introduces two stylish and functional nightstands. The nightstands are designed to provide convenient storage and easy accessibility for patients' personal belongings and essential items. With their sleek and modern design, they seamlessly blend into any healthcare environment while offering ample storage space.

Introducing the Double Platform Bed:
The highly anticipated Double Platform Bed is a versatile addition to our Gibraltar line. Designed with patient comfort and caregiver convenience in mind, this bed offers a spacious sleeping surface and numerous features that enhance patient care. The Double Platform Bed's double-wall construction ensures enhanced durability and has coordinating rounded aluminum corners. With its durable construction and contemporary design, the Double Platform Bed is the perfect choice for healthcare facilities aiming to provide patients with the highest level of comfort.

Accompanying Mattresses for Enhanced Comfort:
To complement the Double Platform Bed, we've also introduced mattresses designed to fit this bed. The Mattress Model provides optimal support and comfort, ensuring a restful sleep experience for patients. With its thoughtful design and high-quality materials, this mattress promotes pressure relief and includes cooling technology, and inverted welded seams, helping to improve patient well-being.

The extension to the Gibraltar line reflects Stance Healthcare's commitment to delivering patient-centered furniture solutions that prioritize comfort, functionality, and aesthetics. With new nightstands and the Double Platform Bed, healthcare facilities can create healing environments that promote relaxation, convenience, and enhanced patient care. These new additions' stylish design and functional features ensure that patients and healthcare providers benefit from their use. Discover the possibilities with the expanded Gibraltar collection and give your patients the comfort they deserve.
 

The look of wood with extreme durability

In a healthcare environment, surface areas like table tops and arm caps are a critical design aspect of a given space – they can affect everything from an area’s safety and cleanability, to its aesthetics and comfort. Increasingly in the post-COVID era, surface finish selections are a top consideration for designers and facility planners when specifying products for healthcare.
 
At Stance, we are excited to announce two new Corian® Solid Surface finish options - Bleached Nuwood and Provence Nuwood. These new finishes provide a wood aesthetic while also providing the durability and cleanability expected of healthcare finishes. The contrasting woodgrain of Bleached Nuwood provides a contemplative design inspired by light and water. While the woodgrain design Provence Nuwood conjures a sense of nature in traditional or contemporary spaces.

“Corian® Solid Surface is the gold standard for healthcare designers,” said Suzanne Fawley, Stance Healthcare’s Behavioral Health Interior Designer. “Its characteristics check every box for healthcare application: durable and able to withstand wear, highly cleanable, and extremely customizable – it’s a great investment for any healthcare environment.”
 
Corian® Solid Surface is:

• Easy-to-clean and maintain.
• When properly cleaned, Corian® is a hygienic surface and does not support the growth of mold and mildew.
• A nonporous surface with a smooth, seamless appearance.
• Extremely durable and long-lasting, standing up to hard knocks in high-traffic environments that can easily damage other surfaces, such as drywall and laminate.
• Easily renewed and repaired.
• Flexible.
• GREENGUARD Certified® as a low VOC-emitting material
• Stain resistant
• Slip resistant
• Extensive color choice available, others on demand

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How Stance Refreshed Its Finishes To Keep Its Products Current

Stance Healthcare and Stance Behavioral Health have spent the past year refining and refreshing the finishes they offer in order to stay current and provide customers with choices. By providing more variety and more relevance in terms of finishes, Stance is better suited to fit the needs of any type of healthcare space.

Some of the new finishes were selected with specific spaces in mind. For instance, the new Rainbow Collection of Marmoleum finishes is bright, lively, and inviting, making them perfect for pediatric spaces. In addition to the Marmoleum Rainbow Collection, Stance also updated its standard Marmoleum collection to include 8 distinct finishes – Silt Stone, Withered Prairie, Red Horse, Cliffs of Moher, Trace of Nature, Urban Silver, Desert Sand, and Welsh Moor. The Standard and Rainbow Marmoleum finishes are available on the Resilia and Pavilion tables, available for both Healthcare and Behavioral Health.

Stance also recently refreshed its offering of Corian® solid surface finishes. The company discontinued a couple of finishes but added  4 new ones to bring the number of Corian® solid surface finishes up to 8. They include  Glacier White, Camera White, Bisque, Linen, Pearl Gray, Silver Gray, Dove, and Canyon.

Stance’s commitment to updating its finishes extended into its wood, laminate, and thermofoil offerings as well. Earlier this year Stance added four new finish colors to its portfolio of wood, laminate, and thermofoil. The new finish colors – Aria, White Chocolate, Dolce Vita, and Palomino – add even more style and versatility to our robust collection of laminate finishes. Further, Stance’s new color options will match across all types of finishes – a unique offering in the healthcare furniture marketplace. (While other furniture makers may offer a variety of colors in each finish, they don’t always match across all finishes.)

Stance Healthcare knows that every detail of the design matters, including finishes. That’s why the company 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. Stance strives to strike a balance between comfort and durability with every product it manufactures, and the finishes it uses to play a significant role in how it achieves 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’s collection convey a neutral feel.

In addition to the wide variety of finishes it currently offers, Stance is open to quoting custom color finishes on a project-by-project basis. It’s proof of Stance’s dedication to remaining on the leading edge of hospital furniture design – and to improving lives by design. And, as a leader in the industry, Stance will continue to refresh and revamp the products it offers in order to better meet the constantly changing needs of the healthcare landscape.

The Kite Chair Offers Functional Versatility For Small Spaces.

When it comes to design, Stance Healthcare approaches every piece of furniture with purpose. Each product has unique benefits, applications and attributes that make it ideal for certain spaces. The Stance Kite Folding Chair is no different. This versatile, durable chair has a variety of functional and flexible features that make it perfect for environments where space is limited, like patient rooms and waiting rooms.  

The Kite Folding Chair’s defining feature is its highly durable frame that can be folded and neatly tucked away to create more room in the space. It also comes with a wall mount for quick and easy storage. This is great for small spaces like patient rooms or multi-use areas where additional space might be needed throughout the day.

Available in both metal and wood frames, the Kite Folding Chair gives healthcare providers options to fit the look and feel of their facility. The metal frame is available in 6 different finishes with a clean, modern aesthetic. The collection of Stance metal finishes consists of Smooth Black, Textured Black, Textured Nickel, Smooth Silver, Gunmetal and Metallic Beige. The metal frame is constructed from 14 and 16 gauge material, so it can withstand heavy use and continue providing flexible functionality time after time. The stylish and durable wood frame finishes are particularly popular and help provide a classic, distinguished look. With the addition of four new colors in 2022 — Aria, White Chocolate, Dolce Vita, and Palamino — there are 12 total wood finish options to choose from. Both the metal and wooden models are intentionally designed with a contoured back and waterfall seat to provide added comfort and help patients and visitors feel more at ease in the space.

There are a number of customization options available for the Kite Folding Chair to make it even more tailored to fit the specific needs of certain spaces. Those options vary from custom frame finishes and contrasting fabrics to give the space a more distinct look, to moisture barrier and protective bumper on the chair back for added safety and protection. Plus, there are two sizes to choose from with 16” and 18” seat width options.

The Kite Folding Chair is another example of how Stance Healthcare designs products for every space, and every space’s needs. To learn more about all the finishes, features and functionality of the versatile Kite Folding Chair, visit StanceHealthCare.com

Making the Healthcare Space More Accessible by Design

Stance Healthcare’s Carson family of products offers a range of flexible, inviting seating options, like the lounge chair and sleeper sofa. And now, Stance has added even more versatility to the line with the addition of a new Carson Recliner model with Patient Transfer Arm. With each product in the line offering its own unique benefits and uses, this durable, well-designed collection of furniture works together to offer a full range of applications and bring a better overall experience to the healthcare space.

The lounge chair offers style and comfort for waiting rooms and lounge areas, while the two- and three-seat sleeper sofas provide a versatile and inviting solution for visitors when they need it most. Every product in the Carson line offers flexible style and functionality, with a variety of options to suit the needs of any space. With customizable arm caps, legs, finishes and fabrics, along with a number of other functionality options, this truly is a collection designed with everyone in mind. But what really makes it so versatile is the addition of the Recliner With Patient Transfer Arm. It’s the only recliner with a transfer arm that Stance Healthcare currently offers.

The Carson Recliner With Patient Transfer Arm offers a wide range of patient benefits that regular seating options can’t. The arm allows the user to get in and out of the chair more safely and easily, while also making it easier for the healthcare provider to help transfer patients to a bed, wheelchair or other seating option. The side-folding transfer arm is activated by a flush pull mechanism on the chair, with an audible click to alert the user that the arm is locked in position, allowing for smooth and efficient transfer every time. The dependable design features stainless steel latches and hinges for increased durability and easy cleaning, helping healthcare professionals stay on schedule and provide the care and attention that each patient deserves.

The Carson Recliner With Patient Transfer Arm fits seamlessly into the Carson collection and offers the same flexible design and customizable options as the rest of the line. With a variety of colors and fabrics to choose from, along with wood and solid surface finishes, there’s something for every aesthetic with the Carson line. 
 

The new recliner also offers a variety of options to increase functionality, like a moisture barrier, slide-out tray, IV pole and holder, trendelenburg, accessory hook and central locking system. 

To see the newest Carson product and learn more about the customizable options available with this line, visit StanceHealthcare.com.

More options for durability and versatility

In a healthcare environment, surface areas like table tops and arm caps are a critical design aspect of a given space – they can affect everything from an area’s safety and cleanability, to its aesthetics and comfort.
 

At Stance, we are proud to offer Corian® Solid Surface finish options across many of our product categories. This material is the original solid surface offering in the marketplace and remains the go-to solid surface selection for healthcare furniture, and for good reasons: Corian® Solid Surface is a virtually maintenance-free finish selection that is highly customizable, easy-to-clean and withstands the test of time.

We recognize the benefits of this material and recently refreshed our Corian® Solid Surface finish options to include three new colors: Cameo White, Pearl Gray and Silver Gray, for a total of 8 neutral color options ranging from pure white to a speckled gray.

Corian® Solid Surface is offered as an option on several of Stance’s product lines, including the tops on our latest drum table collections: Pavilion and Capri, and arm cap options for several of our lounge seating products (Cassia, Carson, Huxley, Verity, Oasis Glider), and three of our metal seating collections (Legend, Vista II, Oasis).

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