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How does faster recovery sound?
Foster rest and well-being with a healthcare acoustics strategy.
High-performing healthcare acoustics turn noise into calm, protecting privacy and promoting healing – so that patients feel safe and staff deliver exceptional care every day.
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Enhance well-being.
Optimised healthcare acoustics improve speech privacy, well-being, and sleep quality, creating healthier spaces where patients feel better and heal in comfort.
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Improve performance.
Miscommunication in healthcare environments has significant repercussions on the quality of healthcare provided, and high speech intelligibility is key to reduced medical errors and smooth team processes.
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Access the 52-page guide to hospital acoustic design
DownloadThe value of optimised healthcare acoustics
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Case studies in healthcare acoustics
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Polish paediatric hospital: Children’s Health Center, Warsaw, Poland
arch. Aleksandra Czubaszek-Siłuch - Kuryłowicz & Associates, 2025
Explore healthcare acoustics by area
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Patient and examination rooms
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Critical and specialist areas
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Nurses' stations
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Reception areas
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Waiting rooms
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Hallways and breakout spaces
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* Ryherd, Erica E., James E. West, Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac, and Kerstin Persson Waye. 2008. “Evaluating the Hospital Soundscape.” Acoustics Today 4 (4): 22. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3058487.
** Olsen, Jon C., Brian Cutcliffe, and Bridget C. O’Brien. 2008. “Emergency Department Design and Patient Perceptions of Privacy and Confidentiality.” The Journal of Emergency Medicine 35 (3): 317–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.10.029.