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4 Things Your New Pediatric Clinic Needs to Succeed

A pediatric clinic is an important fixture in any neighborhood. After all, healthcare is a universal need and ensuring kids grow up healthy and well taken care of is on any parent’s mind. If you’re planning to open a new pediatric clinic, you’ll want to know these 4 things a new pediatric clinic won’t succeed without.

Visibility

The first thing a new pediatric clinic needs is visibility. If you have preexisting branches of the same clinic, ensure your new branch is well advertised within them. Put up an eye-catching notice within other branches alerting people to the new branch. There’s a good chance that many of your existing patients and their families live closer to the new branch than the one they currently visit. You should also update current business cards to include the new branch and its phone number.

While branch visibility within your existing network of patients is important, what’s more important is expanding your reach. Building a new branch means taking on more patients. The #1 thing that brings in prospective patients to a new pediatric clinic is an attractive clinic building.

When a new building is constructed in a a suburban or commercial area, the locals take notice. If you intend to build an entrance sign that’s separate from the building, install your sign before construction is finished. This will give locals time to spread the word that a new pediatric clinic is being built.

Your finished clinic being attractive and modern is the final, key step to visibility. Heidan Construction is well-versed in medical clinic construction. However, we also have a focus in modern design. We’re the perfect company to provide eye-catching brilliance in the form of a shiny, new, clinic office space.

Welcoming Interior

While curb appeal is important for a new pediatric clinic, so is interior appeal. When a new or prospective patient steps into your clinic, their first impression is everything. This is especially true for a pediatric clinic. Children make snap judgements very quickly. If your interior doesn’t immediately satisfy them, they may decide they don’t like your clinic at all. While parents make the final say in what clinic their kids go to, a child committed to complaining or one who’s intimidated by your interior is one who can convince their parents to take them elsewhere.

Ensuring the color design is friendly but professional is a balance that many people fail to strike. Toddlers aren’t the only ones your clinic will serve. We can create a design that appeals to toddlers and teens alike.

Child-Accessible Building

When designing a medical office that’s specifically meant for children, it’s important to make the building child-accessible. This means placing windows low enough for children to comfortably look out. It means including sinks at a lower height in restrooms. We should also be providing gender neutral bathrooms with changing spaces that any parent can use. Your new pediatric clinic should never prove to be an obstacle for parents or children.

Comfortable Waiting Area

And, finally, we can’t forget the importance of a comfortable waiting area. While any medical clinic or doctor’s office should have a waiting area, pediatric waiting areas come with extra needs. There should be enough space for small children to entertain themselves, but also for adults to sit and relax for a while. While many adults show up to adult clinics by themselves, nearly every patient at a pediatric clinic will have someone with them who has to wait.

Give us a call at Heidan Construction if you need someone to design and construct your new pediatric clinic in Toronto. We know what makes a medical office successful and we look forward to putting that knowledge to good use.

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What 3 Things Make Patients Return to a Clinic?

Keeping patients happy with your medical clinic is the #1 most important way to keep them coming back. After all, there are plenty of other clinics around. What makes yours so special? If you don’t know the answer, it’s time to create one. There are 3 big things that make patients return to a clinic. Make sure you have all 3!

1. Professional Management

The first think people notice about a medical clinic they like is professional management. A patient may return to a clinic with professional management, even if the building is a bit outdated. What this means is:

  1. Ensure scheduling is appropriately timed.
    If you find your clinic is consistently behind on taking in patients who arrived on time, change your scheduling practices. If each of your doctors has a patient scheduled every 15 minutes, change that to 20 minutes. You may get a few less patients per day, but your reputation will improve and your existing patients will be happier with the care they’re receiving.
  2. Handle cancelations and rescheduling with compassion.
    Whenever possible, allow cancelations and rescheduling for free. Some clinics charge fees for cancelation, but this is a poor management choice for an industry founded on caring for people who may be disabled or lower class. You’ll retain more patients if you’re lax about these things.
  3. Support patient-first policies.
    Patients should always have the choice of how they receive care. Insist all of your doctors put the patient’s desires before what they may consider their needs. Inform patients and then allow them to decide what’s best for their treatment, unless explicitly asked to make an executive decision.
  4. Make your clinic accessible.
    Clinics and medical settings are here to treat those who are sick, injured, or disabled. Ensure your clinic is physically and mentally accessible and you’ll retain more patients.

2. Friendly Staff

A clinic that’s professionally managed is great, but to make patients return, you also need a friendly staff. A doctor who’s able to convey accurate medical advice is worthless if they disrespect their patient and make them uncomfortable. The same goes for a desk clerk who’s rude or unfeeling toward people looking to check in or get information about the clinic.

3. Comfortable and Attractive Building

Finally, last but not least, one of the most important things needed to make patients return is a comfortable and attractive building. When a clinic is full of friendly people who are competent at their jobs, but the building is dingy, they’re at a disadvantage. Leave your patients more than just satisfied. Make them happy with your services.

Older buildings may be suffering from years of wear and tear. Even well-maintained, old buildings look outdated and unattractive. Ensure patients are greeted with a comfortable and modern interior and they will come back. Plus, having your medical office renovated, remodeled, or rebuilt means a prime opportunity for recommendations. Doctor’s office recommendations are one of the biggest ways a patient pool will grow. If someone has a good experience, they’ll pass it on. What better way to start a conversational recommendation than being able to say, “My doctor’s office just got renovated. It’s so nice!”

Get Help with Your Clinic Design

If you need help with your clinic design, contact us at Heidan Construction. We have exactly the experience you need to improve your existing office design or create a new one. Never heard of design build? Read more about it here to see if it’s the right fit.

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Recover from Extensive Home Damage by Remodeling

Extensive home damage can come in many forms. There’s flooding, pests, a fallen tree, fires, and so much more. Recovering from extensive home damage isn’t easy, financially or emotionally. In the end, there are two ways to move forward and recover from extensive home damage: moving or remodeling. Heidan Construction is here to give you some insight into why remodeling may be the best way for you to move forward.

Moving Comes with Its Own Pains

Moving away from the source of your pain can seem like the best solution. However, it’s important to remember that moving comes with its own pains. If you have kids, they likely have friends in the neighborhood. Moving may mean switching schools or saying goodbye to friends they’ve had for years. For you, it may mean getting a new job or getting a longer commute. Moving can seem like the easiest way to get away from the pain of watching your home fall apart but, in fact, remodeling comes with an even better opportunity.

Remodeling Facilitates Healing

Watching your home fall apart from any kind of disaster can be the height of misery. Our homes are our safe havens, where memories are made, children are raised, and love thrives. To see it all fall apart can be quite traumatic. This can make many of us jump at the chance to move away, hoping to wipe away the trauma of it all. However, it can actually be more emotionally beneficial to stay and remodel.

When you see your home destroyed, there’s a loss of control and safety. Getting to see your home rebuilt is a way of taking control of the situation. It allows you to remain in charge of your living situation in a more meaningful way than moving somewhere else. Plus, when it’s all remodeled and looks just how you remember it – perhaps a bit nicer – it can help you to feel less like your home was ever taken from you. After all, a home is just wood and paint. The safety it brings is often more from the family inside of it.

Remodeling Brings Opportunity

While many would prefer to have their home rebuilt or remodeled to look the way it was, others may find opportunity in remodeling. Has there always been something about your home that drove you crazy? Now’s your chance to change it. With a whole remodeling crew at your beck and call, you may as well knock out that unwanted wall and put in the kitchen island you’ve always wanted. Use the opportunity, not just to heal, but to move on from a home that wasn’t quite right for you.

If you’re ready to recover from extensive home damage by remodeling, give us a call at Heidan Construction. We look forward to helping you and your family recover from disaster and bring to life a home ready for many more years of use.

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Improve Your Quality of Life with a Complete Home Remodel

The affect your home has on your overall quality of life can be quite astounding! It’s amazing how much stress can add up when there are twenty little things about your home nagging at the back of your mind. Maybe there’s something that isn’t quite broken, but isn’t working how it’s supposed to. Or, perhaps there are growing accessibility issues as you get older. Take matters into your own hands and improve your quality of life with a complete home remodel from Heidan Construction.

Fix What’s Broken

The first step to improving your home is fixing what’s broken. Therefore, if you give us a list of all of the things in your home that need repair or replacement, we can make it happen. Say goodbye to that dripping faucet or the cracked step on the back porch. It’s the little things about our homes that we notice and store away in our minds. Even without a complete home remodel, a string of updates to the broken parts of your home will improve your quality of life drastically.

Refresh Paint and Flooring

Next on the list of things people underestimate are paint and flooring. Imagine for a moment that nothing in your home was changed except the flooring and paint. The entire place would feel nearly brand new! It’s incredible what a difference it can make to have a smooth, new surface under your feet and a wall that’s free of chips and discoloring.

If your kitchen and bathroom floors are outfitted with cheap vinyl sheeting, consider luxury vinyl tile instead. LVT is made of similar materials to vinyl sheeting, but is thicker, longer lasting, and higher quality. Plus, it can be designed and textured to feel and look just like hardwood or stone tile.

Update Your Kitchen

Arguably the most important room in the house, the kitchen is next in priority. If you ask most people, if they couldn’t have a complete home remodel, if they could only have one room remodeled, they would choose the kitchen. Kitchen appliances break down and go out of date within a decade. Cheap, laminate countertops get chipped, dented, and lose their edging. Cabinet shelves begin to warp and hardware comes loose. There are so many ways a kitchen can get worn down with daily use over many years. Let us reimagine your kitchen to the exact style you prefer.

Improve Your On-Suite

A newlywed couple moving into their first house rarely has an idea of what they really need in a home. However, once you’ve been in a house for a certain number of years, you get attached. If you have kids, you no longer feel like uprooting to move somewhere better. It’s a story many of us have lived. After all that time living somewhere that didn’t fit your needs, let us update your master bedroom and on-suite. You deserve a getaway within your own home. Let us give that to you. Give us a call at Heidan Construction when you’re ready to start the process and improve your quality of life with a complete home remodel.

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3 Features You Need for Dental Office Success

A dental office has some unique needs to take into account when designing or remodeling it. However, there are three key features that must be considered for dental office success. Let’s talk about the three most important features in a dental office and why they matter.

1. Privacy

One of the most important, and oft-overlooked, features needed for dental office success is privacy. Many dental offices just have lines of chairs with no more than 6 feet between them. This design is not patient friendly and has a terrible lack of privacy. If your dental office hasn’t been built yet, consider separate rooms for each patient. If you already have an office and are looking to remodel, we have just the thing: A frameless system.

Frameless systems are the interconnecting, glass walls and doors that help to divide an office space. These can be used in any type of office. What makes them different from standard office walls is that they’re completely glass and have no metal framing. That means there’s a seamless transition from one glass panel to the next. Cool, right?

A frameless system does more than just look nice. It offers patients confidentiality when talking with their dentist. This is important, not just for professionalism, but for legal confidentiality reasons. It also blocks out a significant amount of sound if installed floor to ceiling. What makes young or nervous patients more anxious than hearing the sound of a drill squealing away in the other room? Not much. Cut out the noise with a sound barrier.

2. Hygiene

Hygiene is another cornerstone of any type of medical practice. The thing is, the older a building is, without regular updates, the less hygienic it is. Old wood gathers dust and moisture, mildew grows under carpets people walk on with their shoes. The carpet also collects dust and allergens. Any dent, chip, or scratch in a counter or table can harbor bacteria that’s hard to remove.

Updating a dental office means improving hygiene, inherently. New paint on the walls kills bacteria, fills in places bacteria could hide, and makes walls easier to wipe down. New flooring means removing the built up germs and gunk from years of treating patients. Replacing windows and doors improves insulation, ensures pests have no way in, and bolsters the fight against outdoor germs.

3. Comfort

And, lastly, you’ll have a much higher level of dental office success if your office provides comfort. That means a layout that’s conducive to productivity for staff and leisure for guests. There should be enough room for all visitors to sit and wait without feeling cramped or uncomfortable. If not the waiting room, the treatment area should have large windows. This is a hallmark in dental offices for a reason. Taking in the outside world and focusing on nature makes it easier to cope with uncomfortable cleaning routines. Plus, the whole place feels bigger when there’s a whole wall missing – even if it is replaced by glass.

Remodel for Dental Office Success

If you want to succeed in the business of dentistry, you need a high quality construction team on your side. Heidan Construction is known across Toronto for our stylish, contemporary design styles. If you need your dental office remodeled, or a new one built, we’re here to help. Give your patients everything they need. A little design and construction expertise goes a long way. Give us a call if you’d like to schedule a consultation.

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Why Office Design Matters for Your Business

Design is more important than you may think. The design of the building you’re in changes everything from how you work, to how you feel, to how you move around the space. Heidan Construction is here today to talk about how office design matters for your business and its success.

Lighting Matters

One of the most important ways office design matters related to the lighting. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to feel sleepy in a room with dim, warm lighting? That’s because this subtle, warm lighting is similar to the hour before dusk. Our bodies equate it with the setting of the sun and the end of the day. It signals to us that it’s time to sleep.

However, bright, clear light does a great job waking us up. Have you ever sat outside when the sun rises? If you’ve ever gotten up at dawn to go to work, you might have noticed that the morning sunlight is bright and somewhat cold in color. That is the exact reason why bright lamps or overhead lights with cool color tones tend to wake us up. They aren’t very cozy, but they’re great at tricking our brains into staying awake.

The Importance of Color

Another thing that affects the behavior of employees and clients is color. Color is a surprisingly effective tool to alter people’s behavior. That doesn’t mean you can control people’s individual actions, but you can certainly influence their attitudes. That’s because color has a profound effect on the human brain. Our brains associate different colors with different needs and moods. If you take the effects of different colors into account when designing a workspace, you can optimize productivity.

Calming blues can help lower stress. Being stressed about work can actually make working harder. That’s why choosing calming blue tones for high-stress work environments can keep employees calmer, happier, and more productive. 

On the other hand, bright oranges boost energy levels. The same can be said of red. However, these colors can actually raise stress. If this is used sparingly, that raise in stress can be beneficial. These colors give the illusion of pressure – just enough that the brain kicks things into high gear.

Middle-tone greens can be a happy medium. Soft, earth greens help keep the balance between calm and productive. This is a great color for clinics, medical offices, and even home offices.

The Impact of Space

When it comes to ways that office design matters, space is one of the most important. The more space you have, the more room you have for employees to work comfortably. You can even expand your team if it’s not so cramped. If your office space is cramped, consider getting an expansion. Morale and productivity always goes up after a remodel. Plus, with more room, post-remodel is a great time to hire.

In addition to staffing capabilities, an expansion will also give you a new pitch to draw in customers. Advertise about your new expanded business and draw interest from potential clients. After all, an expansion and remodel is a great sign that a business is flourishing and is, therefore, reliable.

Design Build Contractors

Heidan Construction is the leading choice for business office remodeling and design build. There’s a good reason for that. Because we provide design build services, we can both design your new office or remodel and also build it. Don’t force yourself to juggle multiple teams. By giving us full control over your remodeling process, we can ensure the end results are of the highest quality possible.