Healthcare Design announced the winners of the 2025 Nightingale Awards during the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 25-28.
The annual awards are a partnership between the HCD Conference + Expo and Healthcare Design and recognize contributions to the healthcare built environment through product design and innovation that promote healing and productivity.
During the conference in Kansas City, 16 jurors, including healthcare architects, interior designers, and facility executives, evaluated this year’s 59 product entries.
For the 2025 awards program, 31 products received awards in 16 categories, with DIRTT (Dallas) receiving the Best of Competition Award for Cove (Clinical Observation Vertical Exam), a prefabricated module designed to address needs for a more rapid response to low-acuity patient flow and treatment in emergency departments.
Additionally, Cortech received the Best of Innovation Award for SafeBin and the Best of Sustainability Award went to CF Stinson for Bloomscape.
2025 Nightingale Awards winners
The 2025 Nightingale Awards Gold, Silver, Innovation, and Sustainability winners, by category, are as follows:
Anti-ligature & Reduced-ligature Furnishings
- Gold Award: Cortech for Sequioa Series
- Silver Award: Moduform for 640/650 Series
Architectural Products: Non-Clinical
- Gold Award: Accurate Lock & Hardware for Transcend: Nina Lichtenstein
- Silver Award: Haworth for HushFree Acoustic Pods, Moxie
Behavioral Health Bathroom Fittings & Furnishings
- Gold Award and Innovation Award: Balco Global Ltd. for SOFTDISPENSER Toilet Tissue Dispenser
Behavioral Health Furnishings
- Gold Award: Krug for Leyton Behavioral Health
- Silver Award: ModuForm for Cocoon
- Innovation Award: Cortech for Summit Series
Carpet
- Sustainability Award: Patcraft for Modern Finds
Fabrics & Textiles
- Gold Award, Sustainability Award, and Best of Sustainability Award: CF Stinson for Bloomscape
- Silver Award: KI/Pallas Textiles for Reve
- Sustainability Award: Concertex for Ellipse Collection
Flooring: Resilient
- Gold Award: Patcraft for Meadow Weave
- Silver Award: Shaw Contract for ColorLink LVT
- Innovation Award and Sustainability Award: Mohawk Group for Creative Terrain II
- Sustainability Award: Tarkett for Acczent heterogenous vinyl sheet collections
Furniture: Clinician Support
- Gold Award: Haworth for Maari Exam
- Innovation Award: Clarus for Atmus Wall Desk
Furniture Collections
- Silver Award: Symbiote for Tetrad Table
- Sustainability Award: MillerKnoll for Mora System by Colin Nourie from Herman Miller
Lighting
- Gold Award: Focal Point for Saros Duo
- Silver Award: Nightingale Acuity Brands Lighting for Observe Cloud
- Innovation Award: Nightingale Acuity Brands Lighting for Assure Nightlight
Seating: Guest/Lounge
- Gold Award: Integra Seating for Odyssey
- Silver Award: Haworth for Moxie
Seating: Patient
- Gold Award: Interwoven, a brand of Kimball International, for Havei
- Silver Award: MillerKnoll for Gemma Recliner
- Innovation Award: Krug Healthcare for Ascend Recliner
Storage & Accessories
- Gold Award, Best of Innovation Award: Cortech for SafeBin
Surfacing Materials & Finishes
- Gold Award: Skyline Glass for Murals on Glass by Jill Malek
Technology-Integrated Solutions
- Gold Award: Patcraft for Geometrix
Nightingale Awards Competition Process
The annual awards are named for Florence Nightingale, a tireless advocate for the improvement of care and conditions in military and civilian hospitals in the 1800s.
Jurors visit exhibitors’ booths before the Expo Hall opens at the HCD Conference Design + Expo to examine the products, hear the story of their design and development, and ask questions.
Submissions are evaluated for their contribution or solution for clinical or operational outcomes; aesthetics and innovation; built environment solution, durability, functionality, and quality; industry certifications and standards; environmental sustainability; and list price.
More coverage of the 2025 Nightingale Awards will be featured in Healthcare Design magazine’s January/February 2026 issue.
