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Creating modern hospital
interiors with Altro flooring
and hygienic wall cladding.
In the most demanding environments, you need hygiene and safety with longlasting resilience. Altro’s integrated flooring and wall cladding offer just that.
And more; they’re good looking and will retain their looks for life. So once you
create a beautiful, calming interior for your patients, residents and staff, you
know they’ll enjoy it for years to come. Our products are sustainable and can
easily cope with the demands placed on them by heavy pedestrian and wheeled
traffic.
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Hospitals have a responsibility to maintain a safe and hygienic environment for every employee,
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Operating rooms
patient and visitor within its facility. With regulations becoming more demanding and the ever
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Critical and emergency care areas
present risk of litigation, it is vital that all equipment, furnishings and interior surfaces be selected
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Patient rooms
with ease of cleaning in mind and be made from materials that help facilitate hygiene.
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Bathrooms and showers
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Hydrotherapy areas
The World Health Organization reports that the most frequent route of infection transmission in
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Corridors and common areas
the healthcare industry is indirect contact. Clean surfaces remove the breeding-ground for most
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Cafeterias and kitchens
bacteria. A thorough cleaning and disinfection regime to combat the spread of infection can be supported by installing Altro safety flooring and hygienic wall cladding in your healthcare facility.
Patient rooms not only need to look good
Hybrid and traditional operating rooms
Corridors and walkways require a heavy
and create a pleasant atmosphere for the
require a seamless, easy to clean surface
duty, specialist solution with the durability
patient to heal in, they also need to remain
that can withstand multiple cleanings on
to withstand pedestrian and wheeled traffic
hygienic so that the sick are not exposed
a daily basis and can withstand heavy
while protecting the safety of those walking.
to additional harmful bacteria and viruses.
equipment. Pictured: Altro Suprema™ and
Pictured: Altro Maxis Unity™
Pictured: Altro Wood Safety™
Altro Whiterock™**
Bathrooms, showers and hydrotherapy
Areas like commercial kitchens, laundry
Pleasant and cheerful common areas can
areas need to be water-tight to prevent the
facilities and industrial areas require extreme
be achieved with products that serve a dual
ingress of water and growth of bacteria while
durability. Altro offers specialist interior finish
purpose; to look good and maintain safety and
maintaining a slip resistant surface. Pictured:
solutions in these areas. Pictured: Altro
hygiene. Pictured: Altro Suprema™ and Altro
Altro Aquarius™ and Altro Whiterock™
Stronghold™ 30 and Altro Whiterock™
Whiterock Chameleon.
**Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Firm: Perkins & Will, Photography By: Dave Burke @ Hedrich Blessing Photographers