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Healthcare facilities benefit from quiet environments for healing, but this can be a challenge with various technology-related noise sources. Sound masking can help.<\/span>
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Conversations and the cacophony emanating from telephones, televisions, alarms, carts, doors, medical equipment, and mechanical systems ensure noise is ever-present in hospitals. Fortunately, economic incentives, regulatory measures, and design guidelines have been developed over the past decade in order to encourage healthcare facilities to address this problem.<\/p>\n

It is important for those involved in the planning and construction of such projects to understand these initiatives, as well as understand how they can help hospital administrators to achieve their acoustic goals with materials including sound-masking technologies.<\/p>\n

To gain a better understanding, check out this suite of sound masking related features available for free download as an e-book. For more information, visit www.constructionspecifier.com\/logison-sound-masking-ebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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