When it comes to ease of navigation, many healthcare facilities fall into a middle ground between easy-to-find and needing-a-GPS building layouts, according to an article on the Vanguard website.
The article offers a dozen tips to improve wayfinding at a healthcare facilities. Here's a sampling:
• Signage must be consistent in shape, size, symbols and wording. No surprises are allowed.
• Use distinctive, color-coded signage consistently on each floor to ease navigation throughout your healthcare facility
• Departments in healthcare facilities should be named in ways that provide clarity to anyone needing to find them.
• Stay away from putting up temporary, computer-generated signs, no matter how much you’re tempted to do a quick fix
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