Across the Board: A Ghent Blog

Designing for Traditional Versus Modern Style

When talking about interior design styles, there’s no shortage of descriptors to use: Industrial, Minimalist, Transitional, Rustic, Scandinavian, Bohemian, Eclectic. And the list keeps going.

3 Ways Hospital Whiteboards Help Improve Patient Flow

Patient flow has wide-reaching implication throughout a facility. It impacts the organization and efficiency of hospital staff, something that is directly tied to the level of care and customer service delivered to patients.

Designing Whiteboards as Memory Aids for Behavioral Healthcare

Long-term memory care and behavioral healthcare facilities are tasked with caring for patients that present a wide-range of cognitive and memory-based challenges.

5 Uses for Hospital Whiteboards Outside of Patient Communication

Hospital whiteboards are most commonly used in patient rooms, and for their good reason. Their ability to integrate into care plans and improve communication with patients is their most valuable capability. But using them as patient room boards for bedside communication is not the only way hospital whiteboards can be used. Hospitals can benefit from placing these custom whiteboards all over their facilities. 

Outside of patient communication, there are various applications for a healthcare-focused whiteboard that helps providers and staff work and communicate with one another. 

The Basics of Implementing Whiteboards in Emergency Departments

A hospital’s emergency department can experience a lot of confusion and miscommunication, which is why facilities seek to provide their trauma teams with everything they need to work quickly and efficiently while keeping the patient at the center of everything they do.

A Longer Lasting Whiteboard

We’ve all seen it: when trying to start a meeting, there are remnants from the last. The whiteboard is holding on to writing from the previous session and it’s distracting for this one. What to do? Invest in a better, longer-lasting whiteboard.

Are Hospital Whiteboards the Right Prescription for Pain and Medication Management?

Managing patient pain is one of the most important things hospitals can do to increase patient satisfaction and HCAHPS scores, especially for post-operative patients. 

How Healthcare Whiteboards Help Solve the Patient Comfort Equation

Comfort is one of the foundational pillars of patient satisfaction, and patient room whiteboards have become a helpful tool for care teams to provide the increasingly high level of comfort sought by patients in an age where healthcare is more competitive than ever. 

Color Trends for 2020

It happens every year. As if silently agreed upon, a few different colors emerge as the hottest colors for the time being. It’s as though the zeitgeist picks up colors that haven’t been favored for years and decides to make them desirable.