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Ellie patient recliner for Kwalu
Best of NeoCon Business Impact award, 2025
Best of NeoCon Silver award, 2025
Good Design® Award, 2025
Record Products of the Year Winner, 2025
Architectural Record Magazine
Best of Year award finalist, 2024
Interior Design Magazine
In healthcare, reducing risks of infection or falls is table-stake criteria. Ellie goes further: research-based design to increase wellness and deliver better health outcomes.
The Ellie collection is composed of biophilic, soft contours—nature’s flow and erosion language—shown to soothe the amygdala, lower blood pressure, and heart rate. Within necessarily harsher clinical environments, Its furniture that can contribute to shorter lengths of stay and improved health outcomes.
Also designed to provide dignity to patients and destigmatize the experience, human-centered features include a negatively inclined footrest, molded ergonomic hand grips and armrests that facilitate sit-to-stand dignity and safety. Ellie’s molded “embrace back” integrates passive lateral support, helping patients maintain an upright posture without visible lateral supports, further destigmatizing and preserving patient dignity while facilitating respiration and blood oxygenation. The open seat angle inhibits skin shear and patient sliding, yet is flush with the transfer arm to prevent bruising or injury during side transfers.