Healthcare Flooring | FAQ's
What is the best flooring for healthcare facilities?
Prioritize resilient flooring (LVT, Sheet Vinyl, PVC-Free) in clinical and acute spaces. These products resist scratches, stains, and indentation, are easy to maintain and disinfect, and do not require polishing. FGI Guidelines mandate monolithic flooring in specific high-acuity areas. Our Vitality collection of homogeneous sheet vinyl helps meet these requirements.
Is Vinyl Sheet Flooring better than Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) in a healthcare facility?
FGI Guidelines mandate monolithic flooring in specific high-acuity areas. While sheet vinyl offers fewer seams, AAHID notes a lack of official guidance on this, and the CDC classifies floors as low-touch surfaces. Sheet vinyl can be more costly and requires specialized installation. Both sheet vinyl and LVT offer excellent stain and indentation resistance.
Can carpet be used in a healthcare facility?
While carpet may not be suitable for all areas due to FGI guidelines (think spilled chili in patient rooms!), it offers significant benefits in entry ways(walk off carpet), waiting rooms and administrative offices by enhancing comfort, acoustics, and reducing dirt tracked into the building.
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Healthcare Categories
Our Healthcare segment provides solutions for:
Acute Care
Ambulatory Care
Behavioral Health
Medical Office Buildings
Biotech Laboratories
Pharmaceutical Labs
How Can Flooring Improve Patient Outcomes?
In Healthcare, flooring provides critical support and performance for a wide range of specialized environments, from the operating room to the waiting room. Shaw Contract serves the segment as a committed partner, with unrivaled expertise and a dedicated portfolio of solution-driven products.
Responsible manufacturing begins with our product development process that considers the well-being of patients and staff in healthcare environments. For the comfort and wellbeing of patients, we use the principles of biophilic design to develop products that have a positive impact on HCAHPS scores.
Solutions
Solutions for Health
and Well-Being
We design using the Cradle to Cradle® philosophy to focus on product human impact.
Keep your spaces operational during maintenance and cleaning.
With transitionless installations, our human-centric products are designed with safety in mind.
Now, more than ever, our healthcare spaces need to prevent the spread of infections.
S150 adhesive can have your surgical or patient rooms operable 3 days earlier than planned.
Solve slab moisture issues with our product solutions and our adhesives and epoxies.
In Tandem Sheet
Greenhealth Approved
Shaw Contract worked closely with Practice Greenhealth to qualify our bio-based resilient offerings and EcoWorx® NSF-140 Platinum carpet tile styles with 100% solution dyed nylon for the Greenhealth Approval seal.
Case Studies
Shady Grove Fertility Center
Shady Grove Fertility Center works with patients to secure the future of their families. Each patient visiting this clinic is looking for hope and answers, and many are concerned and stressed. To address this, Shady Grove Fertility sought to create an atmosphere of serenity and professional warmth. Cool blues and teals blend effortlessly with soothing greys and lighter, natural wood-look LVT. The clinic embraced a residential appeal and intimate, secluded seating to create a calming, private environment for patients.
Case Studies
UMC of Southern Nevada Emergency Department
The recent renovation of the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada emergency department required a floor that would withstand the unique needs of this fast-paced medical facility. Shaw Contract direct-glue, 30 mil LVT Unveil provides a high-performance flooring foundation for this bustling emergency department that services more than 230 adult patients daily from the Southern Nevada region.
Case Studies
Brooke Army Medical Center
The 2 million square-foot facility employs 10,500 staff members and is the largest military hospital in the world. Over the past 5 years, Shaw Contract has become the trusted flooring provider of choice for BAMC, installing more than 20,000 yards of LVT, resilient sheet and carpet tile at the hospital.