Introducing the Clover Collection: Modern Comfort for Behavioral Health FurnitureFriday, September 15, 2023
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The Perfect Blend of Form and Function: Features That Make a Difference
Creating safe, comfortable, and supportive environments is crucial in today’s ever-evolving healthcare landscape, especially in behavioral healthcare settings. Stance’s Clover Lounge Collection stands out as a beacon of modern styling and functionality, offering seating solutions that prioritize relaxation and comfort while meeting stringent safety requirements.
A Blend of Beauty and Functionality Clover boasts a striking blend of beautiful curves and modern design, elevating the ambiance of any supervised behavioral healthcare environment. The thoughtful craftsmanship adds to the aesthetics and ensures unparalleled comfort and support for patients and visitors alike.
Safety as a Top Priority Understanding the unique challenges of behavioral healthcare spaces, Stance Healthcare has engineered Clover to surpass the rigorous BIFMA testing requirements. This dedication to safety and durability ensures that the furniture can withstand the demands of high-traffic environments while maintaining its elegance.
Innovative Clean-Out Space Hygiene and cleanliness are paramount in healthcare settings. Clover addresses this concern with a concealed clean-out space between the seat and back. This feature allows easy cleaning and maintenance, promoting a germ-free and sanitary environment.
Floor Protection and Stability To prevent damage to floors and enhance stability, Clover is equipped with nylon glides. These glides protect the flooring from scratches and offer smooth movement without compromising strength.
Discreet Metal Seat Pan Another innovative design element in Clover is the standard metal seat pan, which cleverly conceals staples. By doing so, Stance ensures that no sharp edges or potentially harmful elements are exposed, enhancing patient and user safety.
Tamper-Resistant Fasteners Safety remains at the forefront of Clover’s design philosophy. Including tamper-resistant fasteners ensures the furniture stays securely in place, reducing the risk of accidents or intentional harm.
Tailored Options for Customization Recognizing that every behavioral healthcare environment has unique requirements, Clover offers a range of customizable options:
Stance’s Clover Lounge Collection brings a fresh perspective to behavioral healthcare furniture. With its harmonious blend of aesthetics, comfort, and safety, this collection redefines relaxation in supervised environments. By focusing on the needs of patients, visitors, and healthcare providers, Stance continues to set new benchmarks in behavioral health furniture manufacturing.
If you seek an innovative seating solution that embraces modern design without compromising safety, Clover is undoubtedly the epitome of excellence in behavioral health furniture. For more information about Clover, please visit our website at www.stancebh.com. |
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Comfort and Care: The Benefits of the Kiwi Bean Bag ChairsThursday, September 7, 2023
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Exploring the Importance of Sensory Comfort in Behavioral Health Centers
In the world of Behavioral Healthcare, spills and accidents are inevitable. The Kiwi Bean Bag Chairs are equipped with replaceable covers, ensuring that cleanliness and hygiene are maintained effortlessly. With the ability to swap out covers, these chairs are easy to maintain and can continue to be a staple in the healing environment for years to come.
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Attessa Jr.: Perfect Furniture for a Pediatric Behavioral Health FacilityMonday, July 10, 2023
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Child-Friendly Behavioral Health Facility Furniture Redefined
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The Flo-Bed and Bedside Debut at NeoConTuesday, June 6, 2023
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Widening the popular behavioral health Flo Table and Chairs Collection
Stance is expanding the highly acclaimed and beloved Flo Table and Chairs Collection. Building upon its award-winning success and immense popularity, Stance has extended the Flo series to include a stunning new addition — the Flo Bed and Bedside Collection of furniture.
Designed with the utmost care and attention to detail, the Flo Bed and Bedside Collection seamlessly integrate with our existing Flo table and chairs. These additions allow for effortlessly matching the aesthetics and style of the Flo furniture throughout the behavioral health facility , creating a cohesive and harmonious environment. The Flo Bed and Bedside Collection encompass a range of essential pieces, including a bed, a bed with side storage, and a bedside cabinet. Furthermore, the line incorporates two already existing shelving units, offering even more versatility and storage solutions. Additionally, Stance Behavioral Health mattresses are available to accompany the beds, ensuring optimal comfort and support.
Like the existing Frontier collection, the Flo Bed and Bedside Collection boasts many remarkable features. These include fluid management for the bed, rounded corners and edges for enhanced safety, and a flush-to-wall design for efficient space utilization. The Stance behavioral health furniture is stain-resistant, seamless, and easy to clean, ensuring longevity and effortless maintenance. The single-side bed storage can be positioned to face left or right, providing flexibility in room layouts. The bedside cabinet has rails to keep items secure, combining practicality with aesthetics.
Stance continues to push boundaries with the Flo Bed and Bedside Collection, delivering exceptional furniture solutions that blend functionality, aesthetics, and innovation. Stance will unveil the Flo Bed and Bedside patient room furniture at the upcoming NeoCon conference. As an industry-leading platform for commercial design, NeoCon serves as the perfect stage for the official launch of the latest Stance collection. |
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Building on a Foundation of SuccessTuesday, May 16, 2023
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Meet Rosetta: versatile seating with a plinth base — and surfaces built to endure
With Marmoleum™ finishes on both the plinth base and the table, Rosetta is built to endure heavy use day in and day out. And that’s by design. Marmoleum™ is an extremely durable and sustainable surface material that is made to withstand the test of time. Plus, it’s non-toxic and easy-to-clean, which helps ensure patient safety and makes it easier on providers to maintain. |
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CHD and Stance: Partnering To Improve The Healthcare ExperienceMonday, April 24, 2023
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See How Stance Is Improving Lives By Design At The Center For Health Design Stance, an award-winning, industry-leading healthcare furniture manufacturer, is proud to continue our partnership with the non-profit Center for Health Design (CHD) for another year. The partnership began in 2018, and it’s been a great fit because both organizations are dedicated to advancing design best practices education in the healthcare space.
For this year, our partnership’s event programming kicks off on April 27 with two webinars, Caregiver Well-Being in Mental and Behavioral Healthcare Environments and D3 — The Intersection of Diagnosis, Dignity and Design for Behavioral and Mental Health Communities in Crisis.
In addition to the April 27 webinars, there will be more workshops and webinars on the schedule in the coming months that will feature insights from industry experts on a number of topics relating to healthcare design:
This ongoing partnership is just another example of Stance’s commitment to Improving Lives by Design and how we are supporting a better overall healthcare experience for all. To learn more about what makes this partnership work so well and to get more information on the partnership events, go to https://www.healthdesign.org/events.
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Delve Magazine: Women Trailblazers in DesignMonday, March 27, 2023
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Delve Magazine: Interview with Suzanne Fawley, IDS, CHID Behavioral Health Interior Design Consultant, Stance Healthcare
How did you first become interested in design? What are some of your earliest memories exploring this interest?
How did you get into healthcare design specifically? And, what were some of the formative experiences you had learning about this industry and the importance of it?
Designing products requires great skill and time. Stance Healthcare has been the perfect partner to design product with. They have skilled product development individuals led by Cesar Fenandes, and have a leadership team that has come to know how important the patient experience is, beyond developing a product just to fill out a line package. Several years ago I was privileged to work with Stance and the Brandon Agency as the brand direction was determined. Together a meaningful tagline for Stance was developed, Improving lives by Design. At this point in my career this mantra, the way they allow for thoughtful design, is more important than individual design awards. Though very enjoyable :)
Read the interview in My Resource Library's Delve Magazine |
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Innovation Never Stops At StanceThursday, March 9, 2023
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Full Circle: The Evolution of our Award-Winning Product Lines Stance is dedicated to improving lives by design, and our commitment to innovation is central to that mission. As a team, we are always listening to market needs to evolve product offerings that support the best healthcare experience possible for everyone involved. Whether that’s creating entirely new products, adding functionality features to existing products or refreshing our best-sellers with new finishes and fabrics, Stance is constantly working to find ways to improve more lives through better design.
As we reflect on our track record of supporting this commitment, three of our product lines in particular serve as excellent examples of how we’ve delivered and evolved top-performing, long-lasting products: the award-winning Resilia drum table, Flo chair and table series, and Frontier casegoods collection for Behavioral Health. Resilia is one of the most popular, and most acclaimed Stance products for a reason. Born from a need for a safe, durable alternative to laminate drum waiting room tables, Resilia uses Marmoleum™ finishes to provide extreme durability and make the tables easy to clean and maintain. The 2017 HCD Nightingale Award winner offers a variety of drum tables in different sizes and shapes that help bring warmth and comfort to the healthcare space, and in recent years, Stance has expanded the line to meet the demands of modern healthcare. The Resilia waiting room drum tables are now available in an oval shape and 8 new colorful Marmoleum finishes, and soon the Resilia table without a plinth base will be available as a standard offering. These innovations give healthcare providers the flexibility to find a table that works for their space’s functionality and aesthetic needs.
Another great example of Stance’s product innovation in motion is Flo. The Chair and Table series is clean and beautifully designed and provides a calming aesthetic for the Behavioral Health space. The rotationally molded chair and table are safe, durable, inviting, and easy to clean — making it great for heavy-use areas in the Behavioral Health space. Its unique combination of ease-of-use, design and durability won Flo the Gold at the 2021 HCD Nightingale Awards — and the popular collection is only getting better. The Flo chair is now available with replaceable chair seat and back pads to help add more comfort and another design element to the space. And with plans to expand our Flo line in the future, we will continue to push the boundaries of functional design to create furniture that works harder for healthcare spaces everywhere.
Last but certainly not least, a 2019 Gold winner at the HCD Nightingale Awards, our Frontier line of Behavioral Health-grade, rotationally molded patient room furniture will expand its product offerings this year with the addition of a lower bed and bedside. The Frontier line is designed to be safe, durable, and inviting, providing a sense of calm and comfort for patients in Behavioral Health environments. Frontier is available with a number of options to provide more functionality and safety to suit the needs of specific healthcare spaces. With the upcoming addition of the lower bed and bedside, the Frontier line will be even more versatile and accommodating.
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Levels of Supervision for Behavioral Health EnvironmentsTuesday, January 17, 2023
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From intake to therapy to discharge, Behavioral Health treatment transpires in a variety of different settings. Depending on the level of need and the severity of the diagnosis, patients also require varying levels of supervision in different phases of therapy — and therapy itself can vary from patient to patient, impacting how often the patient interacts with peers, as well as how much security and observation are needed to keep the patient safe. As such, Behavioral Healthcare spaces typically fall into one of five different general levels of supervision — each informing its own specific setting type and corresponding standards for products supporting it. These levels were originally developed by James M. Hunt, AIA, founder of Behavioral Health Facility Consulting, and referenced by Kimberly McMurray, AIA, principal with BHFC Design. At Stance Behavioral Health, we follow these levels as our guide to determine what types of Stance furniture fits best in each type of space. Maximum Supervision, or Level I: These spaces are restricted, staff-only areas that the patient never enters. These could be staff rooms for respite or collaborative spaces for consultation and meetings. Stance Behavioral Health offers a variety of durable and well-designed product lines that can fill out these rooms and fit any aesthetic. Our Accent Chairs, Disc Base Tables, Trumpet Base Tables, Valet Lounge Chairs, and Verity Lounge Chairs are great for Level 1 spaces and help provide the perfect mix of form and function for the healthcare staff to enjoy.
It’s suggested that the tables in these spaces do not have individual legs at the corners. Our Disc Base multi-purpose tables, Flo tables, and a variety of Drum tables work well in these spaces since they have a pedestal instead of legs. They are also weighted for added safety to prevent them from being thrown or stacked. Our Gibraltar line of laminate casegoods offers bookshelves and cabinets for Level III spaces, keeping patients’ needs, safety, and wellness in mind.
Minimal Supervision, or Level IV: These areas are places where patients spend a great deal of time alone with minimal or no supervision, such as patient rooms (semi-private and private) and patient toilets. It’s important for furniture in these areas to be safe, comforting, and secure, minimizing the potential for patient harm. Stance Behavioral Health offers a variety of thoughtful seating, storage and bedding options to fit the needs of patients in these spaces.
Our Flo Chair and Frontier Chair + Desk set give patients a place for rest in the privacy of their own room, while the Frontier Wardrobe and Frontier Cabinet provide safe, secure, and versatile storage options. The Frontier Mattress is designed specifically for behavioral health spaces and helps provide a safe, comfortable place for rest and respite in Level IV areas.
General Areas, or Level V: These are areas where staff interact with newly admitted patients who present potential unknown risks, or where patients may be in a highly agitated condition. As a result, these areas fall outside the parameters of the environmental risk map and require special considerations for the safety of patients and staff. Level V areas include admission rooms, seclusion rooms, and restraint rooms.
While patient safety and well-being are always top of mind in everything we do, it’s increasingly important to understand what that means in the different areas of a Behavioral Health facility. The solutions above reflect general recommendations found in the Behavioral Health Design Guide, and none are free of risk. While there are no official guidelines for Behavioral Health facilities, it is up to each facility to determine its level of risk and specify the appropriate furnishings for its needs. To learn more about all of our different furniture options available for Behavioral Health spaces, visit stancebh.com today.
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Improved Comfort & Flexibility for FloWednesday, November 9, 2022
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A New Look For Flo
The Flo multi-purpose chair is a seamless and safe design that encourages the user to sit back and relax in Behavioral Health spaces. Stance Behavioral Health has increased the comfort and flexibility of this popular award-winning collection with the introduction of upholstered seats and back pads for the ergonomically designed Flo chair. Alongside 6 soothing color finishes, the seat and back pads allow for another layer of customization by using healthcare-grade fabrics to add a pop of color or emphasize calmness. Paired with the Flo table, which provides durable versatility with its seamless laminate surfaces and pick-proof molded polyurethane edges, this collection allows users to dine safely in comfort or participate in group therapy in shared, intensive use spaces.
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