The rebirth of the Vittorio Emanuele hospital starts from the reorganization, the staff, the equipment but also from the order. With this in mind, the new signs were placed at the request of the strategic management represented by Commissioner Salvatore Ficarra and the health management with Alfonso Cirrone Cipolla.
Confusion banned! Now those who arrive and don’t know the structure know how to get around and how to get to the departments and services.
The importance of functional signage reaches maximum levels within hospitals, for various reasons.
Hospitals are usually large in size and are also environments divided into numerous sectors and departments: making a comparison with any other public building, the hospital is certainly the one that presents the highest level of internal subdivision.
Many people arrive at the hospital who are in a particular emotional state, perhaps because they need urgent help or simply because they are worried about the hospitalization of a loved one, consequently their level of attention and concentration when consulting the signs can be very low.
In light of this, it is clear that in a hospital the signage must be particularly sharp, clear and intuitive.
Talking about signage inside hospitals is fundamental: so that the spaces of these public buildings are organized in an optimal way and so that the identification of the departments of interest is easy, it is necessary to structure real Wayfinding strategies.
The word Wayfinding could be translated with the term “orientation”: the meaning of this concept is therefore very broad, which means that to structure effective Wayfinding it is useful to work from multiple points of view and signage is only one of them.
The structuring of the building, the lighting, the ways in which the walls are decorated, the color combinations, are just some examples of aspects that have an influence at a Wayfinding level.
In public buildings such as hospitals it is essential to take care of Wayfinding in a scrupulous, professional way and without neglecting any detail,
