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Transforming Healthcare

Dynamic architectural lighting systems that improve patient and staff sleep quality, mood, prevent depression and delirium, and extend the benefits of therapy.

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Illuminating more than 70 healthcare systems in North America, improving health outcomes in windowless Observation Units, MRIs, EDs, + Behavioral Health Units, and staff breakrooms.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Mayo Clinic
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Texas Health Resources
Hoag Health System
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Josh Butz

“LIGHTGLASS operates and feels like daylight. To do that in the core of a building is fantastic!”

Josh Butz
Electrical Engineer, Stantec

Research Related to Lightglass

Preventing Patient Depression & Fatigue with Programmed Environmental Illumination.

“…Programmed Environmental Illumination prevented the development of depression during hospitalization, with effects reaching significance by the third day…. 68.4% of the participants in the Dim-White Light comparison condition met the criteria for clinically significant depression compared to 42.1% in the Bright-White Light condition.”

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Improve Measures of Sleep, Depression, and Agitation in Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia.

“Light therapy has shown great promise as a nonpharmacological method to improve symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), with preliminary studies demonstrating that appropriately timed light exposure can improve nighttime sleep efficiency, reduce nocturnal wandering, and alleviate evening agitation. Since the human circadian system is maximally sensitive to short-wavelength (blue) light, lower, more targeted lighting interventions for therapeutic purposes, can be used.”

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Extend the Benefits of Therapy for those with PTSD.

“This research is exciting and unique because it points to an easy-to-use method for helping those with PTSD to retain the benefits of therapy long after the treatment ends,” said psychiatry professor William “Scott” Killgore, PhD, director of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Lab and senior author on the paper, “Morning blue light treatment improves sleep complaints, symptom severity, and retention of fear extinction memory in post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Read publication at arizona.edu

Introduce the experience of daylight into windowless spaces with our compact, dynamic and customizable architectural lighting element.

Specialty Configurations

Smart Work

Anti-Ligature

Impact resistant and tamper-proof. Designed to meet the requirements of the New York Office of Mental Health. LEARN MORE

Candor Icon

Non-Ferrous

Reduce patient anxiety with MRI-safe windows and skylights. LEARN MORE

Regulating Your Circadian Rhythm with Brighter Days and Darker Nights.

SunDial™ automatically mimics the color and brightness of the sun in your timezone, enabling tailored lighting interventions without the need for expensive 3rd-party control systems.

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