August 14, 2019
Visa Lighting's LENGA Recognized in 2019 IES Progress Report
Our team developed a new solution for patient space lighting – without crowding out medical equipment
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) publishes its Progress Report every year to record new lighting products that have achieved “uniqueness, innovation, and significance to the lighting industry.” This year, the 2019 IES Progress Report recognizes Lenga, a dual unit overbed slot luminaire for patient room lighting.
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The Challenges of Patient Room Lighting
Lenga was engineered to provide multifunctional ambient and exam illumination for the patient room – while taking up as little space as possible.
In healthcare environments, overbed light fixtures need to provide enough light for caregivers to perform exams and evaluate patients visually. However, space on the ceiling plane and plenum is precious. Hospital overbed lights must compete with lift supports, curtain tracks, ceiling and wall-mounted medical equipment, nurse call systems, and the wiring and ductwork necessary to keep everything running smoothly. In addition, slim profile lighting is now used everywhere else in current hospitals. To answer this, we designed Lenga to be as narrow as possible, measuring only 3” wide and 4” in recessed depth.
Providing Multifunctionality With Luminaire Features
Lenga’s coextruded lens produces different optics for the two modes, ambient and exam. The slim form and precise optics allow ambient mode to use both sides of each unit, while exam mode emits asymmetrically from the outer edge to directly illuminate the patient bed without shadowing. Lenga can be specified with white LED sources or with tunable sources for circadian lighting.
This fall, specifiers will also be able to order Lenga as a ligature and impact resistant luminaire for behavioral health environments.
