Traditional headwall construction is stick-built, basic drywall with a millwork panel added overtop. Cutouts are made onsite. This style is quite labor-intensive, which means a large number of trades working in one space during installation. While the final product is a beautiful headwall, managing a large number of skilled trades on-site is timely and costly.
A pre-manufactured headwall is a prefabricated wall that is brought on site to the hospital, and basically fills a hole in the patient room wall. Historically, these are not the most attractive option, but pre-manufactured headwalls are very functional and save on-site construction time.
With forWard headwalls, you don’t have to choose between aesthetics and functionality. forWard headwall systems are a new generation of prefabricated headwalls that are customizable, flexible, and offer hundreds of wood grain, pattern and color options to give your space a sophisticated and relaxing ambience. Aesthetics are important to increase patient and staff comfort by reducing stress and anxiety in a room. With forWard, you get the beauty and functionality traditional and pre-manufactured headwalls can lack.
In fact, forWard headwall panels can be all walls of the patient room, including footwalls with recessed PV. The same panels as the headwall are used for this, but are typically different colors to highlight the beautiful accented headwall.