The lighting design for the patient rooms is a sophisticated series of solutions to achieve highly controllable room lighting. The custom, recessed square fixture provides general lighting, reading lights for the patient to read on the bed, and at its maximum intensity, the square fixture acts as an exam light for care providers’ close inspections.
The Christ Hospital Joint and Spine Center
Cincinnati, OH
The Christ Hospital’s South Expansion included a new Joint and Spine Center – an orthopedic care facility.
The JSC comprises 90 private inpatient rooms, 12 operating rooms, and various amenities designed to promote health. Schuler Shook’s lighting designers worked closely with the architecture team at SOM. The design team achieved LEED certification for the project.
Lighting scope for the JSC includes the main lobby, the concourse, conference rooms, staff lounges, physicians’ waiting rooms, treatment rooms, multi-purpose rooms, rehab gym, and the Pilates room.
The patient rooms are designed to allow abundant daylight to penetrate the room, and the core of the building. During the day, minimal artificial lighting is needed. Outside views are maximized to support well-being.
At night, the patient room can be transformed into a visually comfortable environment, providing warm dimmed light to encourage the patient’s sleep.
The caregiver’s station has a small, LED light directly above to illuminate only this area during nighttime hours.
To further ensure minimal sleep disruption, the “night-light” is a step-light providing amber light. This fixture is activated via motion sensor as the patient gets off the bed. To avoid the step-light being energized during the day, it is controlled via a time-clock that only allows for activation during night-time hours.
Project Details
Service
Architect
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SOM
Recognition
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IES Illumination Design Award of Merit, 2017
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AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Award, 2016
