Nightingale Awards 2021 recognize 15 products

Cleveland, Ohio—Healthcare Design magazine in partnership with the Center for Health Design and The Healthcare Design Expo + Conference revealed the winners of The Nightingale Awards 2021.

The Nightingale Awards, an industry program to recognize products related to the healthcare built environment, are named for Florence Nightingale, a tireless advocate for the improvement of care and conditions in military and civilian hospitals in the 1800s. According to the company, the judging criteria for the awards is the product’s contribution to a healing environment along with aesthetics and innovation; contribution or solution for clinical or operational outcomes; durability, functionality and quality; environmental sustainability; industry certifications and standards and list price. To evaluate the entries, jurors visited exhibitors’ booths before the Healthcare Design Expo opened to examine the products, hear the story of their design and development and ask questions.

The judges this year included:

• Shary Adams, mental health behavior practice leader, CannonDesign;
• Dee Dee Bonds, senior interior designer/associate, HOK;
• Edward Cheshire, architect, senior project manager, Nationwide Children’s Hospital;
• Sarah Cypher, director of nursing, Froedtert Hospital;
• Cindy Flinchum, project manager interiors, UW Health;
• Melanie Harris, healing practice director, BSA Life Structures;
• Debbie Heitzman, principal, SSR;
• Isaac Holman, senior interior design manager, ESa;
• Andrea V. Hyde, senior project manager, interiors planning, design + construction, Stanford Health;
• Tiana Lemons, senior associate, healthcare studio leader, Orcutt/Winslow;
• Travis Tyson, director of planning, Cleveland Clinic; and Anthony Treu, healthcare practice leader, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

The recipients of this years awards are as follows:

The Nightingale Best of Competition Award & Gold Award in Fabrics & Textiles

• CF Stinson, LLC, for C.A.R.E. x Stinson

The Gold Award and an Innovation Award in Architectural Products: Non-Clinical

• Accurate Lock and Hardware for Ligature Resistant Swinging Door System

The Silver Award in Demountable Walls

•  Falkbuilt for Falkbuilt Digital Component Construction (Walls)

The Gold Award in Fabrics & Textiles

•  CF Stinson, LLC, for C.A.R.E. x Stinson

The Gold Award in Flooring: Hard Surface

• Mannington Commercial for Legato Liquid Linoleum

The Gold Award and an Innovation Award in Flooring: Resilient

• American Biltrite for Sonata Elements

The Silver Award in Flooring: Resilient

• Gerflor USA for Mipolam Evo

The Gold Award in Furniture Collections

• Stance Healthcare for Flo Dining Collection

An Innovation Award in Furniture: Clinician Support

• Welnest for Nurses Station

An Innovation Award in Seating: Guest/Lounge

• Interwoven – Kimball International for Embra

The Gold Award in Seating: Patient

• Carolina, an OFS company, for Knack Recliner

The Silver Award in Seating: Patient

• Interwoven – Kimball International for Ezzeri

An Innovation Award in Seating: Patient

• Kwalu for Modena Patient Chair & Ottoman

An Innovation Award in Signage & Wayfinding

• VividBoard, a GMi Co., for Swing Changeable Glassboard

A Gold Award in Surfacing Materials & Finishes

• Kwalu for Metallics That Aren’t Metal?

An Innovation Award in Window Shading & Treatments

• Privacy Glass Solutions for VISTA-Vision