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Acoustic intervention at St. Marien-Krankenhaus Siegen Hospital

2015-07-06 by Alexey Archakov

Acoustic intervention

by Ingrid Fuchs (Concept Developer Healthcare Environments at Ecophon Germany) and Dr. Martin Schmelling (Specialist in Anesthetics, St.Marys Hospital)

In July 2014 an optimization and acoustic intervention started in the pre-located areas of the OR (pre-op and post-op patient areas) at the St. Marien Hospital in Siegen, Germany. It has been a challenge for the technical management to keep the room acoustics on the agenda, during the whole planning process of the hospital refurbishment. The quality of better speech intelligibility and a calm working environment hasn’t been explored before – so it has been, let’s say an unknown advantage. Noise is very stressful partly due to work tasks and partly when communicating with patients and their family members. I can be difficult and sometimes even impossible. When the noise increases around you people tend to talk louder and simple tasks like preparing the sterile set-up for the next operation can be very loud.

Outcome

Today the staff and the technical management are fortunate to have the new “silence”. The technical manager explains how this calm and supportive work environment has become part of his success story too.

It helps to consider an activity-based acoustic design in future building processes. Now, this specialist understands why and appreciates the benefits of investing in an acoustic intervention and design from the outset.

The staff satisfaction showed immediate positive effects – so did the willingness to accept the investment in this supportive functionality.

 

To see how people experienced the acoustic difference before and after watching here

 

For more info about this please contact Ingrid Fuchs

Filed Under: Healthcare Tagged With: activity based design, healthcare, hospital, hospital acoustics, hospital noise, Video

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