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Privacy solutions for emergency care: Flexibility in fast-paced care settings

Emergency department multi-patient room Silentia PhotoPanels

In the fast-paced environment of hospital emergency departments, ensuring the highest level of care for patients in critical conditions is an absolute priority. Silentia privacy screens are a cutting-edge solution designed to create spaces that prioritize privacy, cleanliness, and efficient care for patients and medical staff during emergency situations.

With their modular and adaptable design, Silentia privacy screens offer exceptional versatility to meet the unique demands of emergency care. The foldable and mobile design features allow staff to quickly establish private areas that effectively isolate patients from their surroundings or easily fold and roll them out of the way to make space in the event of an emergency.

The thoughtful design of Silentia privacy screens offers the rugged durability of solid screens while providing staff an unobstructed view of monitors or patients without compromising privacy. Furthermore, wipeable surfaces contribute to the critical need to reduce the spread of germs, keeping patients and the surfaces around them as clean as possible.

Discover the diverse applications of the Silentia screen system through actual project examples from emergency departments in healthcare facilities nationwide. These installations are tailored to address a wide range of challenges faced by our customers, including patient safety and dignity, environmental hygiene, infection control, staff safety, and operational efficiency. Get inspired and see how privacy screens can safeguard the well-being of your patients and their families in critical moments.

Open bay & multi-patient areas

Open bays and multi-patient rooms are challenging environments for giving patients privacy, but the mobile and collapsible design of Silentia privacy screens transforms any open area into individual private spaces, and back again.

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo1/3): A revamped layout of a holding area using combined fixed and folding daylight top screens to replace curtains and accommodate better patient care and workflow. (Open)

Emergency department holding bay open

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 2/3): A revamped layout of a holding area using combined fixed and folding daylight top screens to replace curtains and accommodate better patient care and workflow. (Closed)

Emergency department holding bay closed

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 3/3): Combined fixed and folding privacy screens replace curtains for better privacy and infection control in a multi-bed room.

Emergency department fixed and folding Silentia screens

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 1/3): Curtains replaced with 6-foot tall, 10-panel wall-mounted folding screens for optimum privacy and line-of-sight to monitors.

Emergency department Silentia screen curtain replacement

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 2/3): Wall and spacer-mounted PhotoPanels folding screens create a calming atmosphere for a multi-patient behavioral health area.

Emergency department multi-patient room Silentia PhotoPanels

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 3/3): Ready for duty! 10-panel mobile folding screens ready to be distributed throughout an emergency department.

Emergency department Silentia mobile folding screens

Triage, overflow & phlebotomy

Patients receiving care in the ancillary areas of the emergency department, such as triage and phlebotomy stations, may be feeling vulnerable and exposed. Privacy can help patients maintain dignity and feel protected, even in areas not originally intended for treatment or care.

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 1/3): Vibrant PhotoPanels screens offer infection control-friendly privacy in a pediatric triage/overflow treatment area converted from a waiting room.

Pediatric emergency department overflow Silentia PhotoPanels

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 2/3): Two 5-panel daylight top folding screens allow the hallway of an ED to convert to a triage area.

Emergency department Silentia wall-mounted folding screens closed

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 3/3): Two 5-panel daylight top folding screens allow the hallway of an ED to convert to a triage area.

Emergency department Silentia wall-mounted folding screens open

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 1/3): A wall-mounted white folding screen provides privacy by closing off the opening of a phlebotomy station.

Emergency department Phlebotomy station with folding Silentia screen

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 2/3): A mobile folding screen offers privacy to patients seated at a blood draw and triage station.

Emergency department triage station

 

 

 

Slideshow (Photo 3/3): An array of branded mobile folding screens provides temporary separation between patients at an emergency department check-in area.

Emergency department check-in area with temporary mobile folding screens

Interested in learning more about these Silentia projects or finding a privacy solution for your emergency department? Connect with us and a team member will reach out to you!

Privacy solutions for neonatal care: Protecting young patients and families

In the neonatal department, providing optimal care to vulnerable newborns is of utmost importance. Silentia privacy screens excel in creating spaces that prioritize privacy, cleanliness, and efficient care for infants, families, and medical staff.

The modular and flexible design of the Silentia privacy screen system is easily adaptable to fit any scenario in neonatal care. It gives medical staff the ability to create a private spaces, especially in an emergency, that separates a patient from the environment around them.

Privacy screens support streamlined workflows by allowing safer access to patients, providing sightlines to monitors without impeding privacy, and improving cleanliness in the area around patients. They also offer functional benefits to the physical space, such as a surface to knock on before entering and a surface to display calming or engaging imagery.

To showcase the variability of the Silentia privacy screen system and it’s diversity of solutions, we have gathered project examples from healthcare facilities across the country. These installations are actual solutions that were developed to address a range of our customers’ challenges, from environmental hygiene and infection control to safety and efficiency for staff.

Explore the examples below, get inspired, and consider the many ways privacy screens can provide protection for your young patients and their families in your department.

Individual rooms

Individual rooms offer a private setting for the treatment and care of NICU patients, however, they often still require a privacy solution around the patient, for the family, and at the entrance of the room.

 

 

 

 

Photo: Curtains replaced with mobile PhotoPanels folding screens.

 

 

 

 

 

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Photo: Curtain-free privacy with wall-mounted PhotoPanels folding screens featuring a custom print.

 

 

 

 

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Photo: New construction featuring curtain-free rooms with wall-mounted white folding screens.

 

 

 

 

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Photo: Wall-mounted white folding screens for curtain-free privacy throughout a women’s pavilion.

 

 

 

 

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Photo: Entryway privacy curtains replaced with 6’1”-foot-tall wall-mounted white folding screens. (Before)

 

 

 

 

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Photo: Entryway privacy curtains replaced with 6’1”-foot-tall wall-mounted white folding screens. (After)

 

 

 

 

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Open bay

Open bay treatment and recovery wards excel at delivering care efficiently for larger volumes of patients. In these settings, where patient comfort and safety can be challenging, privacy screens can improve privacy and reduce infection spread.

 

 

 

 

Photo: Flexible, curtain-free privacy between patients in a relocated NICU ward, created by wall-mounted daylight folding screens and mobile daylight bed-end screens. (1/2)

 

 

 


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Photo: Flexible, curtain-free privacy between patients in a relocated NICU ward, created by wall-mounted daylight folding screens and mobile daylight bed-end screens. (2/2)

 

 

 


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Photo: Wall-rail mounted folding screens, featuring a combination of PhotoPanels with Daylight tops, for better infection control and to accommodate limited space.

 

 

 


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Photo: Eliminating curtains throughout a large NICU department with wall-mounted daylight folding screens and PhotoPanels folding screens. (1/2)

 

 

 


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Photo: Eliminating curtains throughout a large NICU department with wall-mounted daylight folding screens and PhotoPanels folding screens. (2/2)

 

 

 


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Photo: Newly constructed curtain-free twin rooms separating patients with wall-mounted custom daylight and color folding screens.

 

 

 

 

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Lactation/Pumping room

Lactation and pumping rooms are important supplemental spaces for families whose babies are receiving treatment in a NICU. Privacy screens can be used to transform these areas into more private, serene spaces.

 

 

 

 

Photo: Wall-mounted folding screens provide privacy between seating areas while giving ample access to staff.

 

 

 

 

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Photo: Two floorpole-mounted PhotoPanels folding screens transform a small room to accommodate multiple people. (1/2)

 

 

 

 

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Photo: Two floorpole-mounted PhotoPanels folding screens transform a small room to accommodate multiple people. (2/2)

 

 

 

 

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Interested in learning more about these Silentia projects or finding a privacy solution for your neonatal department? Connect with us and a team member will reach out to you!

Clinic goes curtain-free to improve patient safety and experience

Clinic goes curtain-free to improve patient safety and experience

H. C. Andersen Clinic in Odense, Denmark, a small eight-bed hospital named after the famous author Hans Christian Andersen, has eliminated curtains as a privacy measure between patients.

The private hospital, which offers cosmetic plastic surgery, nose surgery, and eye surgery, uses Silentia folding privacy screens to ensure proper separation and hygienic protection between patients. Recently, they purchased additional screens to be utilized at the bedside.

“We use Silentia’s folding screens to screen between the patients. In one bedroom the beds are not in a row, so here we have chosen a large, double mobile screen that ensures good shielding for the patients,” says Alan Kimper-Karl, Director and Partner.

Folding screens are more practical and hygienic

“We previously had curtains as a screen, but they were quickly replaced in favor of folding screens. They are both practical and much more hygienic, which is something our nurses value very highly,” says Kimper-Karl.

As a supplement to the new screens, the hospital has included mobile bed end screens for additional privacy. They are easy to relocate when additional screening is needed in the other bedrooms or elsewhere.

“We learned about Silentia privacy screens from other clinics in the area. We have only had good experiences with them. They are both aesthetic and very functional. Furthermore, they serve as a long-term solution.”

Why replace curtains with privacy screens?

Curtain costs have a large impact your operating budget every year. Silentia folding privacy screens, on the other hand, are an investment that lasts at least 10 years and minimizes the amount of resources required to be cleaned over that time. Unlike curtains, our privacy screens can be cleaned instantly in place every day and after every patient.

Click here to receive more information about how our screens promote cleanliness, improve safety for patients and staff, and increase efficiency.