Health & Wellness

In healthcare environments, every surface plays a role in protecting patients and staff and flooring is one of the most critical. Seam placement and transition design directly affect hygiene, moisture control, and overall cleanability. Mannington Commercial’s resilient sheet, Integra® HP carpet, and Seam+Advantage® technology work together to support rigorous infection-prevention standards while simplifying day-to-day maintenance.

• Seam+Advantage® Protection: Our Seam+Advantage® technology allows resilient sheet and Integra® HP carpet to be chemically welded together, creating a hygienic transition that eliminates gaps where moisture and bacteria can collect. Lab testing of properly welded seams has shown no bacterial growth, including staph and pneumonia.

• Monolithic, Easy-to-Sanitize Surfaces: Resilient sheet meets monolithic flooring criteria required in spaces where infection control is critical—such as procedure rooms, OR suites, and clinical labs. Fewer seams mean fewer places for contaminants to hide and faster, more effective cleaning protocols.

• Multiple Width Options for Better Seam Placement: Many of our sheet products are available in 6’, 9’, and 12’ widths, helping you strategically place seams away from high-traffic zones and patient pathways. Proper seam planning reduces long-term risk and improves both safety and hygiene.

• Safer, Smoother Transitions: Chemically welded transitions eliminate most traditional transition moldings, resulting in a lower profile that improves mobility for wheelchairs, stretchers, and rolling medical equipment—while reducing trip hazards for staff and patients.

Comfort matters—whether it’s patients recovering in a room, families waiting for updates, or staff moving continuously between care areas. Our resilient sheet and LVT options are designed to soften footfall and absorb impact, creating environments that feel better underfoot without sacrificing the durability healthcare spaces demand.

• Built-In Cushioning: Products like Attune® feature ergonomic backing layers designed to absorb impact and reduce fatigue from long periods of standing or walking.

• Bounce Back: Resilient sheet rebounds from compression and resists indentation, maintaining its supportive structure under heavy rolling loads from medical equipment.

Unwanted noise is one of the most common stressors in healthcare settings, affecting patient rest, staff communication, and overall emotional well-being. Our flooring solutions help reduce disruptive sound—softening footfall, improving speech clarity, and creating calmer, more restorative clinical environments.

• Acoustic Underlayment Options: Technologies like Silent Solution® and LockStep® help reduce impact sound transfer in patient rooms and corridors. These underlayments support clearer communication for staff and better rest for patients.

• Built-In Sound Dampening: LVT products featuring FloorArmor® include attached pads that dampen footfall and equipment noise. This added cushioning enhances patient comfort and helps reduce fatigue for caregivers who spend long hours on their feet.

• Naturally Quiet Surfaces: Carpet tile in waiting rooms, administrative offices, and lobbies absorbs sound within the space, reducing reverberation and creating quieter, more private environments for conversations and care.

• Rubber for Low-Noise Performance: Rubber flooring used in clinical corridors and support spaces offers exceptional impact sound reduction and reduces the sharp, distracting noise of rolling equipment and foot traffic.

• Resilient Sheet with Strong Acoustic Support: Our resilient sheet products offer STC performance in the 61–63 range, helping manage noise within patient rooms and treatment areas.

Color, texture, and pattern all play a role in creating healthcare environments that help patients feel at ease and give staff visual cues that help them move confidently through their day. Mannington Commercial’s coordinated flooring collections make it easier to design calm, intuitive spaces that support emotional well-being while also guiding people where they need to go.

• Coordinated Palettes: Our palettes are intentionally designed to work together, giving you the ability to create restorative environments with consistent color and texture across patient rooms, corridors, and waiting areas.

• Wayfinding Options: Subtle shifts in color, pattern, or texture can help patients and visitors intuitively understand where to go. And when subtle cues aren’t enough, our Wayfinding LVT allows you to incorporate directional markers into the floor itself, helping people navigate clinical corridors, public areas, and transitional spaces more easily.

• Color Anchor Collection: Our Color Anchor collection allows you to specify modular tile, LVT, resilient sheet, and rubber in a wide variety of colors. This makes it easier to maintain visual consistency from public spaces—like corridors and waiting areas—to clinical zones that require higher levels of performance and cleanability.

• Biophilic Design: Many of our healthcare collections incorporate wood tones, organic textures, and calming, nature-inspired visuals. These elements help create more reassuring and emotionally supportive environments that can reduce stress for patients, families, and care teams.