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You have special requirements when creating a safe and secure environment for patients, physicians, and staff. We understand the needs of health care facilities and believe optimizing your facility's physical environment can have a direct link to improved patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, staff satisfaction and productivity, and financial performance.

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Decoded: Delayed vs. Controlled Egress

Understand the difference between delayed and controlled egress and when to use each.

Anatomy of a Fire Door

Learn about the requirements for fire door assemblies and other differences from standard openings and hardware.

7 Health Care Trends Affecting Today’s Facilities

Allegion surveyed health care professionals from leading health systems across the United States. This infographic highlights some of the trends we uncovered.

Implementing Suicide Precautions: A Hospital’s Journey Following a Joint Commission Survey

Learn how Allegion helped Witham Health Services to address ligature issues on approximately 25 doors after a Joint Commission survey gave them 30 days to correct the issues.

Infographic: Delayed Egress vs. Controlled Egress

The difference between delayed egress and controlled egress systems can be confusing. This infographic shows how these systems work, where they are used, and how to choose the correct application.

Pacific Medical Centers’ New Location Embodies Patient-Focused Philosophy

Medical professional standing in an exam room. A sliding door pull handle is shown in the foreground of the photo.

This new location provides a more positive patient experience by making medical center visits easier and more efficient.

FAQs About Low Energy Automatic Operators

Low energy automatic operators are the type of automatic door operators that are typically actuated by a “knowing act.” Here are some commonly asked questions about these devices.

Innovation in Interior Architectural Design for Health Care Facilities

Architects are implementing new and more effective design elements to improve both employee wellness and patient care with particular focus on ICUs.

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Codes and compliance for health care facilities.

Overtur™

Rethink how you manage door and opening coordination. Learn more about how Overtur ™ can benefit your project.

Architectural Consulting Services

Allegion’s architectural services team member helping with specifications

Get help with architectural needs or spec writing.

Training

Architect taking an AIA-registered continuing education course on access control solutions

Allegion training, including Intro to Door Hardware videos, AIA-accredited CEU courses, and much more.

Healthcare Design Guide by STANLEY and AD Systems

Automatic Entry Doors by Stanley Access Technologies

Allegion Health Care Security Brochure

Fire-Rated Glass in Health Care Facilities

Fire-resistive-rated glass wall in Murchie Science Center

Interior Sliding Doors for Security and Flexibility in Health Care Facilities

Healthy Buildings

Infection control has long been a challenge in health care facilities but has increased even more in recent years. Doors can be a contributing factor in high traffic areas where people frequently must touch the door or hardware to pass through. However, there are door opening solutions that can help reduce the spread of germs, bacteria and viruses.

Hands-free openings
Touchless openings
Antimicrobial finishes

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Operating Room & ICU Doors

We know the intricacies of keeping a health care facility up and running—and that's why top hospitals partner with us to design unique, efficient, and most importantly, safe patient experiences. We have hospital doors that meet the demands of all areas of health care facilities including entrances, interior corridors, ICU/CCUs and isolation rooms, emergency rooms, and enhanced security integrations. With smoke-rated, positive and negative pressure-rated, and trackless configurations, our doors are a fitting addition to your health care facility.

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Flexible Design in Exam Rooms

Patient-focused spaces need environments that are quiet, comfortable and maintain patient privacy and accessibility. Health care settings often have unique requirements such as smoke or fire ratings, lead shielding, air tightness and anti-microbial hardware. Sliding door solutions made especially for clinics, medical office buildings and other health care applications can save space and allow patients and health care workers to navigate the building with ease.

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Privacy Glazing Solution That Performs

Delivering precision control and seamless integration, our advanced privacy glazing solutions are engineered for the demands of modern spaces. Featuring operable or fixed louvers fully enclosed within a hermetically sealed glass unit, they offer a clean, maintenance-free way to manage privacy, daylight, and solar heat gain—without the need for strings or cords.

Whether for health care, commercial, educational, or institutional settings, these systems allow for total design flexibility and can be tailored to fit virtually any configuration. From patient rooms to meeting areas, they offer a superior approach to privacy that meets the highest performance standards.

Optimized for:

Infection prevention and easy cleaning
On-demand privacy and visibility control
Enhanced daylighting
Solar heat gain management

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