LED MEDICAL LIGHTING

Project: Sarasota Memorial Hospital ER Triage  

Sarasota , FL  

Designers: 

Paul Cooper – The Ritchie Organization (TRO) 

Michael Gundrum – Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. (SSR)

The renovation of the ER Triage at Sarasota Memorial Hospital incorporates a lighting concept designed to promote healing and reinforce the concept of a South American tropical rain forest. Low profile energy efficient direct/indirect light fixtures and recessed compact fluorescent lights were specified for general ambient light.

The combination of the blue and the white light are intended to reflect the night and day aspect of the hospital’s “24/7 We’re Always Here” campaign.  This comprehensive lighting objective makes for a relaxed and unexpected atmosphere.  It is designed specifically to reduce anxiety for patients and their families while they wait.

Flexible LED light fixtures were selected for their dramatic impact highlighting the leaf canopies in a shallow cove; their durability, flexibility, low profile, and long lamp life. Field curvable compact fluorescent ramp fixtures sit neatly in coves surrounding each of three structural columns to create the effect of daylight above the leaf canopy.

Consuming a mere 3.2 watts per foot for a total lamp life of approximately 100,000 hours, the effect of the cove light is designed to provide contrast in areas where other architectural features occur such as the 850 gallon salt water aquarium, science exhibit and LED lit water “bubble” walls. 

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