Stance in Focus

Designing the Waiting Area with Stance Healthcare

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.

In our series unpacking the endless application opportunities that come with partnering with Stance, today we’re focusing on the waiting room – as the only healthcare furniture manufacturer with the product selection to fully furnish any room in a hospital.

For better or worse, waiting areas make a first impression in any healthcare experience – and furniture can play a significant role. As the manufacturer with the healthcare furniture industry’s deepest breadth of line, Stance Healthcare has a variety of products designed to support a positive experience for patients, care providers, and the facility staff who utilize these spaces. Achieving this positive impact is intentional and begins with a deep understanding of how function and form must work together in waiting areas.

From a function standpoint, designers and facility planners must create a space that can safely and comfortably accommodate large volumes of people, often 24 hours a day. Furniture that is durable, versatile, and easy to clean meet those demands. On the other hand, channeling empathy for the experience of these people – patients experiencing a health issue, loved ones anxious to receive news, everyone collectively preparing to be in these rooms longer than planned – should be equally prioritized in the design process. That’s where form comes in with appealing textures, colors, and shapes.

At Stance, we strive to deliver waiting area products that strike the balance between form and function, and ultimately contribute to a positive first impression in a waiting area. Our waiting room offerings include modular seating that’s flexible for varied users, easy-to-clean occasional tables, and the versatile, reliable, lightweight-yet-durable metal seating Stance is known for. On top of the unmatched selection, Stance’s waiting room products offer an unrivaled value, at a variety of price points to meet any budget.   

Stance offers a variety of products ideal for use in waiting areas:

Guest/Multi-Purpose Seating: Stance’s variety of guest and multi-purpose seating options seamlessly support end-users in waiting areas of all sizes. From more traditional metal chairs like our Accent and Accent Jr. for pediatric areas, to the surprisingly plush Vista and Abrazo guest chairs, to the ultra-durable Marathon and Spry chairs, end-users will benefit from our seats’ flexibility and comfort. Additional details, like contrasting fabrics, replaceable arm caps and choice of arm cap material (wood, polyurethane, solid surface) either arrive standard or as optional customizations. For Behavioral Health settings, our guest and multi-purpose seating is built with added safety features, including bolt-to-floor brackets and tamper-resistant fasteners, as seen on our Legend collection.

Lounge Seating: Our lounge seating selections are award-winning and popular among healthcare facility designers for good reason: We’ve raised the bar for what’s expected in waiting room comfort. Traditionally, the word “lounge” may not seem synonymous with these areas, which can tend to feel cramped or anything-but-relaxing. Our comfort-forward lounge seating collections, like Clover, with curves that invite users to curl up and relax, and the Valet Highback, with plush support for the back, are just two examples of how Stance products invite end-users to lounge in waiting areas.

Modular Seating: Waiting areas should be flexible for the varied groups of end-users it accommodates. From pediatric areas serving children who appreciate freedom of movement, to high-use emergency departments where safe distances between groups help prevent the transmission of healthcare associated infections, modular seating is the hero that shifts to support the changing needs of these spaces. In addition to our Attessa collections, the Flora and Rosetta seating products offer infinite options and configurations to deliver a modern, creative and functional design to healing spaces. Built to stand the test of time, these collections are loaded with features for added durability, including tamper-resistant fasteners and steel bottom plates to resist damage. And with infection prevention in mind, they’re also made to support an easy clean, with details including clean-out between seat and back and moisture barrier options.

Occasional Tables + Benches: Perhaps one of the most-used product categories in a waiting room, occasional tables and benches play a key role in creating a comfortable, flexible environment. Our Resilia drum table raised the bar for as the ultimate durable drum table, with a surface area covered in the ultra-strong Marmoleum, which is primarily a flooring material. With its round top allowing for safe maneuvering and damage-resistant surface, Resilia can handle as many sits, props, feet, and objects a waiting room can offer.

Our other occasional tables are over-engineered for high-use and cleanability, with surface options including laminate, solid surface, and thermofoil, and mix and match well with coordinating seating, contributing to a cohesive aesthetic. Meanwhile, our bench selections help support clean sight lines and safe distances, while allowing for more end-users in these often crowded spaces. Our Onward bench shines as a leader in durability, built to the highest standard of quality in the industry, while other options like Porto offer a contemporary style in a choice of 2-seat or 3-seat configurations with solid surface and power/USB options.

These are just a few examples of the Stance Healthcare collections that can easily complete a waiting area – 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/.