Stance in Focus

Designing the Exam Room with Stance Healthcare

When selecting furniture for any healthcare facility, product quality and price are top considerations for the design team. Often, designers and facility planners explore and eventually select from a variety of suppliers when furnishing various spaces within the same facility. This curated approach to furniture application ultimately aims to support an experience catered to the needs of a given facility’s unique patients, visitors, and care providers. It can also make for a cumbersome process, which entails working with multiple suppliers, customer service teams and lead times.

What if designers – and the individual facilities they furnish – had an ‘easy button’? One that delivered the high quality, selection, and customization options to make any space unique… but with the ease of working with just one manufacturer? That’s the experience we offer at Stance Healthcare.

When working with Stance, our design partners immediately access the industry’s deepest selection of healthcare furniture… over-engineered to meet the highest quality and safety standards, with virtually endless options to customize. Because the depth of our sprawling furniture collection is so expansive, designers benefit from a one-stop-shop, with an outcome that’s anything but generic.

The benefits to working with us don’t end with just the furniture itself. In addition to accessing Stance’s ample selection to complete any room, we bring a deep understanding of the unique design needs and functional aspects required of all rooms in a facility. From exam rooms to waiting areas, Stance is the ‘easy button’ designers can push to press for results that are not only seamless to implement, but feel and perform like they’re tailor-made for each individual room.

In our series unpacking the endless application opportunities that come with partnering with Stance, today we’re focusing on the exam room – as the only healthcare furniture manufacturer with the selection to fill out this type of space. We begin our series with an example of how Stance can furnish an exam room, piece by piece.

First, it’s important to understand the specific goals for furniture, case goods and built accessories in an exam room. Designers and facility planners carefully consider the layout, and how the elements of the room can thoughtfully support the dignity and comfort of its end-users – through subtle details in the selected equipment and furniture that contribute to a smooth, safe, clean, and comfortable experience. Products that are easy-to-clean and maneuver, adjust for various heights, weights, and physical abilities of patients with ease, and offer ample surface areas, storage options, and efficient use of space even in small areas are all crucial in supporting a positive care delivery experience in an exam room.

Stance offers several furniture collections ideal for use in exam rooms:

Treatment tables: Stance Treatment Tables are exceptionally durable, attractive and feature a 750lb weight rating. All models are available in a refreshing range of finish options that will enhance any clinical space. With features like our proprietary “quick change” paper roll holder and oversize height-adjustable leveling glides, our treatment tables are designed to make care delivery seamless for both patients and providers.

Stance also offers two exam tables that serve as the centerpiece of the exam room. Our 6080 Exam Table is functional, sturdy and well-suited for today’s typical medical clinics. It can be configured as a right- or left-hand model and has a weight capacity of 500lbs. Our 4040 Power Exam Table includes hands-free foot control with hi-lo power back. Both varieties come standard with a drawer warmer and pelvic tilt, with electrical options and seamless, easy-clean, removable healthcare-grade vinyl top.

Physician stools: To offer physicians movement around the exam table area, we offer a selection of physician stools for any treatment room. Our traditional, backless Physician Stools combine comfort, functionality and aesthetic appeal, featuring molded foam seats and a choice of two cylinders to meet different seat height requirements. All our chairs arrive ready for easy use, with no tools required for assembly.

Casework: Casework that is both easy-to-clean and offers ample tool storage for sanitation and infection control measures is crucial in an exam room. Our versatile Ventura Casework line meets these needs, while prioritizing functionality and aesthetic appeal. Featuring floating cabinets, integrated solid-surface countertops, and soft-close drawers and doors, this casework maintains a consistent design language across its components while maximizing space utilization and patient comfort. Its pre-fabricated solid-surface countertops consolidate the sink and 6” backsplash, and with multiple configuration options via its preconfigured exam units, Ventura lends a different look and function to a variety of exam rooms.

Seating: Stance offers the healthcare furniture industry’s broadest offering of metal seating. Our Marathon seat is one of many potential options for an exam room. Featuring a solid nylon arm that is virtually indestructible, Marathon is designed to endure high levels of use over an extended period of time, making it ideal for high-traffic exam rooms. With its memory gel seat topper and contrasting fabric options, Marathon injects Stance’s signature comfort in places least expected.

These are just a few examples of the Stance Healthcare collections that can easily complete an exam room – while still offering the aesthetics, comfort, and high quality performance that support patients, visitors, and care providers. To learn more about Stance applications, room-by-room, browse our expansive product selection at https://www.stancehealthcare.com/ecommerce/.