The winners of the 2023 Nightingale Awards were named during a presentation at the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in New Orleans, Nov. 4-7.
The Nightingale Awards, given by Healthcare Design magazine in partnership with the Center for Health Design and the HCD Conference, recognize products related to the healthcare built environment. This year 55 products were reviewed—a record number of entries for the annual awards program, which is named for Florence Nightingale, a tireless advocate for the improvement of care and conditions in military and civilian hospitals in the 1800s.
The judging criteria for the awards is the product’s contribution or solution for clinical or operational outcomes; aesthetics and innovation; built environment solution, durability, functionality, and quality; industry certifications and standards; environmental sustainability; and list price.
Brewer Company received the Nightingale Best of Competition Award for Versa Exam Table. The product also won the Gold Award in the Furniture: Clinician Support category.
This year, 23 products received 31 awards in the following categories:
- Architectural Products: Clinical, Gold Award and Innovation Award: Accurate Lock and Hardware for Secure Cabinet Ligature Resistant Sliding Door System for Medical Gases.
- Architectural Products: Non-Clinical, Gold Award: Sky Factory, Inc. for OpenView Luminous Virtual Windows.
- Sustainability Award, Carpet category: Interface for Lost Palms Carpet Tile Collection.
- Fabrics & Textiles, Gold Award: C.F. Stinson for Natural Attraction.
- Fabrics & Textiles, Silver Award: Mayer Fabrics for Seaqual Initiative Privacy Curtains: Serene & Tranquility.
- Flooring: Resilient, Gold Award and Innovation Award: Mannington Commercial for Attune.
- Flooring: Resilient, Silver Award: HMTX Commercial/Teknoflor for Symphony Collection HPD by Teknoflor.
- Sustainable Award, Flooring: Resilient: to ECOsurfaces for Nada Rx.
- Furniture: Clinician Support, Silver Award: Carolina, an OFS company for Stray Caregiver Support Station.
- Innovation Award in Furniture: Clinician Support: Skyline Design for Mossa Mobile 3-Wheel.
- Furniture Collections, Gold Award and Innovation Award: Stance Healthcare for Lotus.
- Furniture Collections, Silver Award and an Innovation Award: Kimball International for Kolo Pod.
- Sustainability Award in Furniture Collections: Plural Studios for Ventura.
- Seating: Guest/Lounge, Gold Award: Global Furniture Group for Willow.
- Seating: Guest/Lounge, Silver Award: Stance Healthcare for Podium.
- Innovation Award, Seating: Guest/Lounge: Carolina, an OFS company for Chrys Lounge.
- Sustainability Award, Seating: Guest/Lounge: Plural Studios for Rochester.
- Seating: Patient, Gold Award and an Innovation Award: Pineapple for Boden Donut Rocker.
- Seating: Patient, Silver Award: Spec Furniture for Apricus.
- Innovation Award: Carolina, an OFS company: Chrys Guest + Dining.
- Surfacing Materials & Finishes, Gold Award and Sustainability Award: SABIC Functional Forms for Lexan Cliniwall Sheet.
- Technology-Integrated Solutions, Gold Award: Safehinge Primera for Full-Door Ligature Alarm.
- Technology-Integrated Solutions, Silver Award: Fellowes for Fellowes Array.