Tips for Choosing an Automatic Hospital Door

Automatic doors in favor of sustainability.

All hospitals receive a high volume of visits every day. People of all ages come to receive medical treatment, undergo surgery, visit someone who is sick or carry out their professional work. It is important that the accesses to the building are wide, accessible and without architectural barriers, and allow a fluid transit of people. In this task, the presence of automatic doors is of great help.

Choosing the correct automatic door for a hospital requires careful consideration of several important factors. The needs of the property must be taken into account and the types of intelligent accesses that are ideal for improving the day-to-day life of patients and healthcare personnel should be assessed.

Outside, as the main access door, you can opt for a revolving door, to sectorize the standard sliding doors, or if you need to separate "clean areas" from "dirty areas", the best option is hermetic doors that prevent transmission of germs, thanks to its tight closure. For the intensive care area, the hermetic glass door designed to allow observation from the outside, limiting entrances and exits to those strictly necessary. In X-ray rooms, leaded doors, which can also be installed at the entrance to the operating rooms, although the most common is to find hermetic doors.

Within the Manusa catalog for health centers there is a wide variety of models designed to satisfy all the needs of hospital centers and we offer full advice during all phases of the construction project to provide the most appropriate solutions for each need.

It is also important to consider security. All Manusa automatic doors installed in a hospital or healthcare center comply with safety regulations, as well as those relating to their installation, use and maintenance. Likewise, we have doors designed for specific uses such as fire-resistant doors, which prevent the spread of fire and gases outside of them. Or the emergency doors, which allow a wide free passage for evacuation when necessary.

To ensure proper functioning and a long useful life for our products, at Manusa we offer maintenance plans that adapt to all needs and guarantee an optimal condition of the automatic doors and their accessories. In addition, our technical assistance service has specialist personnel and all kinds of spare parts to deal with any incident in the shortest possible time.

It is important that when choosing a door or set of doors for a sanitary building we also take into account that these will help to improve energy efficiency. One of the best tips is to replace, as far as possible, manual doors with automatic ones to achieve greater sustainability of the property. These types of actions are recommended in favor of energy consumption and caring for the planet.

If you manage or run a hospital and want to install automatic doors in the different rooms of the building, follow this series of advice and contact Manusa now to receive advice and recommendations on the characteristics of each of the ideal smart accesses for any healthcare center.