Reasons To Use A Visitor Hospital Badge for your Hospital Visitors

It makes perfect sense that the majority of people in hospitals aren’t at their best. Obviously, patients are in the facility because there is something medically wrong. The people who are visiting the patients are feeling empathy for their friend or loved one, distracted from their regular daily life, and perhaps are even under stress because of the patient’s stay. Plus, hospital employees are some of the most stressed and tired workers in any industry with pressure to take care of sick patients and work long hours. All of these groups of people in hospitals have other things on their minds besides their personal safety. The vulnerability of all types of people in the hospital makes it important that these people are kept safe at all times and documenting visitors is a good first step in security.

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Using visitor hospital badges allows hospitals to know who is in the facility. If an unknown person is walking down a hallway and they are wearing a visitor badge, hospital employees know that person has been registered and is allowed to be there. The visitor badge is a great visual alert. To improve that visual alert, many hospitals are using expiring visitor badges that change color overnight to prevent badge reuse. The visitor hospital badge looks like a regular badge while the visitor is in the facility. However, by the next day, a bright pink “VOID” shows on the badge, meaning the visitor should be questioned about their presence in the building.

With a little planning, hospitals can utilize their visitor badges to identify the specific type of visitor any given person is. Much like the badge being a visual alert (mentioned above), the badge can convey other specifics, like the type of visitor the person is. Hospitals can consider these types of commonly used titles for badges:

• Visitor
• Vendor
• Contractor
• Outpatient
• Volunteer
• Clergy

Security personnel (or any vigilant hospital employee) can know at a glance and question if a volunteer is found in the boiler room or a vendor is found in the emergency room. On the occasion a visitor is in scrubs, a visitor badge will also help identify the visitor as opposed to mistaking them for a hospital employee.

When a hospital has a visitor identification policy with visitor badges that specify where a visitor is allowed to go (such as the Maternity floor or ICU), then the visitor has much less freedom to go in areas of the facility where they don’t belong.

In the past, hospitals were single buildings. Having to manage security for a single building was a lot easier that the current hospital facility model. Today, bustling hospitals are more like college campuses than single-building operations. Each part of these campuses comes with its own entrances and exits, creating a variety of opportunities for people with negative intentions to enter the facility. Occasionally, these multiple campus buildings are connected by walkways and/or tunnels, and hospitals can’t afford to have even one unguarded point of entry. With so many people coming and going, visitor identification is key. Multiple entries means multiple threats, so staffing each door with a visitor management system and requiring visitors wear visitor badges are great processes for decreasing vulnerabilities.

If a business decides one day that it isn’t accepting visitors anymore, it’s not likely to create a stir. However, if a hospital decided that guests were no longer welcome, it may have trouble getting patients. The hospital reputation will decline (especially in this age of social media) and most likely will cease to be in business in the near future. You can’t have a hospital without having visitors. Since visitors are a necessary element of any hospital setting, using a visitor hospital badge to identify everyone makes good business sense (and security sense too).

Reliable and Compliant Automatic Doors for Healthcare Facilities

You can’t afford the breakdown of a door in a medical facility, especially during a pandemic. From the hospital entrance doors to the individual hospital room door, each and every door needs to work flawlessly around the clock.

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Our certified technicians keep all your automatic doors in shape. Including, but not limited to, revolving door entrances,swing doors, sliding and folding doors, and even automatic windows for dispensaries. 

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Advanced Door Service makes a difference in patient experience and hospital efficiency. Our AAADM certified technicians have extensive experience with any door in your clinic or healthcare facility. Their vans are stocked with door hardware, and they are ready for almost any repair to your sliding door, swinging door or any other automatic door. We offer 24-hour service as well as maintenance contracts that cover regular maintenance for all doors in your medical facility, regardless of the manufacturer.

Hospital Door Systems

Revolving Doors in Hospitals

Revolving doors are well-suited for anyone wanting to enter or leave a building. In a hospital, however, there are more factors that are important such as the right diameter and speed to accommodate wheelchairs, walkers and gurneys.

Horton Grand® and MiniGrand® revolving door systems are ideally suited to the requirements of health care facilities. They offer impressive architectural appeal, generous openings and the extra advantage of a constant seal for energy efficiency and LEED credits.

Healthcare Sliding Doors

Automatic doors are engineered to meet the 24/7 demands of medical facilities. Horton offers an industry leading range of  sliding door entrance systems, all designed for ultimate dependability.

We service Horton Automatics doors as well as all other brands, and have access to all sliding door parts you may need, from elegant all-glass entrance systems to telescoping sliding doors.

Swinging and Folding Doors

Horton Automatics swing and folding door systems provide a full range of solutions for ADA compliant handicap door openers or high traffic automatic access. These systems come standard with AAADM certified installation. 

• Swing door operators can be installed in a new construction or to upgrade an existing door. At Advanced Door Service, we assist you with retrofitting an existing swing door and provide support with ongoing maintenance and repair
• Folding doors are very versatile. They provide a solution for very large openings as well as for narrow corridors that require wide openings in a narrow space.
• We often install automatic swing door closers when an automatic door is not necessary, or when a manual hinged door is located next to an automatic door.
• Specialty Operators may be used for extremely heavy doors, such as lead-lined doors for an x-ray room or storage vault systems with fire protection

Patient Room Systems

Patient room door systems allow the option to leave doors completely or partially open without the need to break out the doors. These doors are ideal for rooms that need optimum space utilization.

At Advanced Door Service, we service a broad offering of automatic swing and sliding doors. We also provide manual barn door configurations for patient rooms, exam rooms and toilets.

Hospital Door Hardware

Hospital door hardware needs to withstand more wear and tear than in most other applications. There are also more requirements for doors in health care. Doors need to provide fire protection, access for wheelchairs and hospital beds, access control, etc.

At Advanced Door Service, we carry quality commercial door hardware to maintain and repair all your doors to make sure they are reliable day and night, year-round.

Specialized Healthcare Applications

Our team at Advanced Door Service has vast experience with hospital doors. Call us to address your specific needs, such as: breakaway, self-closing, UL smoke infiltration, AIIR isolation, card access interface etc.

Pressure Rooms

Hospitals have air infiltration requirements for negative, positive and combination pressure isolation rooms. These can be used for an operating theatre and airborne isolation infection rooms.

Horton Automatics offers solutions to address these needs. Our doors can be activated with touchless sensors or hands-free door openers to avoid contamination. The alternative mechanical self-closing system requires no power.

Isolation room doors greatly reduce air leakage and include tested perimeter seals and self-closing devices. These systems are easy to clean and reduce the risk of nosocomial infections. They are available in electromechanical or no power self-closing.

Atmospheric Sliding Doors are designed to meet clean room standards. These doors are excellent for areas such as labs or pharmacies where ultra cleanliness is required.

Critical Care and Intensive Care Systems

In an ICU environment it is important that patients are always in full view through the glass door. When there is an urgency, the full breakaway feature allows for all panels to swing out of the way. The resulting large opening allows swift removal of patients or equipment.

We are proud to be part of the Horton Automatics family, which consistently develops first-to-market systems, such as the self-closing smoke-rated ICU/IMU/CCU door systems and the first airborne infection isolation room door that requires no power.

Staff and patients alike appreciate the design details we provide, such as Mini-Blind and Opaque glass for privacy, light control and hygiene. Larger openings for moving beds and equipment are also now possible with the smoke-rated telescoping door system. 

Security Windows

Hospitals require security windows for drive-through pharmacies, labs, supply rooms and other secure interior areas. These windows can be equipped with transaction drawers, bullet resistant glass, a choice of counter tops and other custom features.

At Advanced Door Service we have extensive experience with the maintenance and repair of these drive-thru windows in healthcare.