Healthcare delivery is ever changing

Healthcare Furniture Solutions

Healthcare delivery is ever-changing, and the COVID-19 pandemic has forever exposed the need for effective preparedness and facility readiness to cope with this unprecedented crisis.

POI is making use of its broad supplier networks and supply chain effectiveness in order to select and provide quality product solutions to meet the immediate and future needs of the healthcare market. We continue to work extensively with Canada’s leading hospitals, clinics, acute care, long-term care, assisted living facilities, and healthcare environments in the development of comprehensive solutions that meet the evolving needs of healthcare workers, patients and their family support networks.

Featured Products

empath

Empath

The empath recliner is designed to reduce stress and the potential injury for both patients and clinicians while increasing physical and emotional connectedness.

Convey

Convey Modular Casework

To serve health well, the spaces where health happens must be met with extreme flexibility – handling what’s now and anticipating what’s next. Convey’s spectrum of modular components support smart space planning and dynamic care needs.

sync

Sync

Designed to support clinicians in action. Sync workstations facilitate collaboration between colleagues, connection to patients and access technology and information.

pocket

Pocket

The Pocket mobile worksurface supports connected care, from task to task and space to space.

Verge Chair by Steelcase

Verge

Available in three heights, the Verge stool provides a quick and comfortable place to sit as clinicians collaborate with each other and connect with patients and families.

regard

Regard

The Regard modular lounge system supports times of transition to make every moment more meaningful.

Sieste Sleeper by Steelcase

Sieste Sleeper

By offering a comfortable place to rest with a quick and easy conversion, the Sieste Sleeper encourages visiting family members to feel welcome as active partners in their loved one’s care.

Play VideoFlexibility in Health Care Webinar

Flexibility in Health Care Webinar

Learn how flexible healthcare design meets ever-changing needs. A flexibility framework helps align all stakeholders on core definitions and will touch on why Quadruple Aim is the goal to improve the work life of health care providers, clinicians and staff. Following the CEU, find out how the Steelcase Convey product perfectly supports the need of flexibility. Join us in working towards a more flexible future that allows the healthcare industry to evolve with changing patient and clinician needs.

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Long-Term Care

Long-Term Care

Your Long-Term Care and Retirement Home needs have been hard hit by the spread of infection. By implementing stricter transmission mitigation protocols and assuring that your environment is optimized with anti microbial and infection resistant furniture that is easy to clean, you can better protect your residents and caregivers. From bedside cabinets, dressers and wardrobes to desks, recliners and dining room chairs, POI provides an assortment of products to preserve the health and wellness of your facility and most importantly, to safeguard the most vulnerable front-line workers and residents.

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Additional Items/Corporate Health Care

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has forever altered the way in which healthcare workers and institutional decision makers assess their environments. This is no less true for corporations that look ahead and will need to plan their facility spaces to address physical distancing and deliver employee wellness once the pandemic has subsided.

POI offers a range of products to meet the immediate and future needs of both healthcare and corporate environments. These include high back chairs and recliners as well as overbed  and bedside tables for patients. Stacking chairs, mobile monitoring stations and stools assist healthcare workers in managing high-activity and emergency settings that demand rapid response. We also provide a selection of enclosed pods and separation booths, kiosks and screens to mitigate spread.

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COVID-19 UPDATE GRAPHIC

STAY UP TO DATE

POI remains open for business as it is defined as an essential workplace that supplies other essential businesses or essential services within Ontario to support Supply Chain continuity. POI remains committed to you and will work tirelessly to meet your needs while safeguarding the health of our employees and customers. Thank-you for your ongoing support and loyalty and most importantly, stay healthy and safe!

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Coronavirus Pandemic Highlights the Quality of Business Furnishings Required For Your Office

These are unprecedented times as we all try to navigate our way through the coronavirus pandemic that is causing upheaval in businesses, homes, schools, and agencies across the globe. Extraordinary measures are in place to control the spread of the virus, including self-isolation, social distancing and cleaning measures like frequent hand washing.

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A Radical Transformation is Taking Place in Healthcare

As changing dynamics add complexity to an already complex industry, the challenges that healthcare organizations face are greater than ever. Addressing high-priority issues is key to developing a strategy for sustainable success.

Today’s Healthcare Journey Needs to be an Integrated One

Healthcare organizations that embrace the fact that the fundamental nature of the industry is changing are best positioned to deliver greater value in a differentiated way.

Technology is Making Healthcare More Participatory

Healthcare leaders are advocating for greater innovation and are shifting the focus from illness to wellness and well-being. Decision-making is becoming more collaborative involving more people and making processes less directive. Much of this can be attributed to new technologies which are offering new ways to interact with information and making healthcare processes more mobile and connected.

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CASE STUDIES

To See the Everyday in New Ways

We are on a mission to understand how caregivers perform their duties, how patients receive their care, and what partners in care facilities want and need. As we work with our customers, our goal is to improve the long-term healthcare experience for everyone.

The unique requirements of healthcare environments include nurse stations, triage stations, patient testing, in-patient rooms, dining spaces, waiting rooms and lab areas.

POI’s expanding presence within the healthcare sector is focused on workplace effectiveness and efficiency for the caregivers—never compromising the patients’ comfort, care and dignity.

POI has worked on projects with leading caregivers, architects, designers, administrators, clients and clients’ customers who strive to make environments work better—We find solutions that work to improve the delivery of care.

CASE STUDIES
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Exam Spaces
Clinician Workspaces
Patient Rooms
Oncology Spaces
Waiting Places

Exam Spaces

AT THE CENTER OF THE HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE

No longer just a place for medical exams and treatments, the exam room is also a space where consulting, learning and person-to-person sharing happen.

Whether in a doctor’s office, urgent care center, surgery center, or emergency room, exam rooms are hardworking, high-functioning spaces that support the activities and relationships that create connected, satisfying and effective healthcare experiences.