Experience Custom Designs For Leading Medical Practitioners
Simour is a distinguished healthcare interior design firm. We understand that your space is a place of wellbeing, purpose, and comfort. By providing world-class, end-to-end design services, we help elevate your space to a place of state-of-the-art healing, relaxation, productivity, and passion.
With decades worth of healthcare interior design experience, our team has created contingency plans for every possible obstacle we might face to ensure we open your new practice on schedule.
Through our intentional approach to healthcare interior design, we’ll communicate with you every step of the way.
Phase One
Conceptual Design
Your first meeting with our team allows us the opportunity to listen to and understand your specific requirements and needs. As a result, our healthcare interior design services will represent your brand and provide a seamless experience from beginning to end.
We’ll provide you with custom space planning, brand-matched mood boards, and concept sketches.
Phase Two
Design Development
Our Design Development phase for healthcare interior design includes the initial interior architectural plans and getting final approval before we begin construction. We also begin sourcing all required materials, fixtures, and equipment. We’ll select material finishes (floor plans, furniture plans, among several others), and review the design budget based on these items.
Phase Three
Construction Drawings
This is where we bring your healing space to life. We’ll provide the detailed Design Management timeline and schedule of design implementation dates, and keep you fully up-to-date on where we are with the process. You’ll also receive 3-D model presentations to view the design direction before any purchase are made (saving you time and money).
Phase Four
Purchasing
Exclusive to our Simour Premium package is the additional Purchasing option. This service has been developed to streamline the healthcare interior design process, finishing your journey with clarity and ease. We’ll coordinate with vendors and contractors, order placement and tracking, provide hassle-free white glove delivery and assembly of your practice’s furniture, and provide onsite styling and installation.
“Mitra and her team worked with us on the launch of our business. The facility was transformed into an amazing space thanks to their invaluable input. In fact, one of the most common compliments we receive from our patients is how beautiful the space looks”
-SARA A.
Unparalleled Design Expertise for Your Space
Our team at Simour works passionately and with acute attention to detail to bring the desired aesthetic to your space. Mitra Silva, Founder of Simour Interior Design, is motivated by the belief that proper design can create a flow that positively influences productivity, healing each person who interacts within that space. Mitra and her team bring years of specialized experience designing and transforming medical spa spaces with premier international organizations.
We understand that medical visits can stir up anxiety for patients. Our years of expertise help us to design spaces that alleviate those anxieties by inducing calm and relaxation to the particular areas where patients might feel most vulnerable. The result is patients, staff, and yourself feeling comforted and utterly at ease.
Give, Not Take
Approaching the design of your space from a spirit of abundance rather than restriction creates a positive patient experience. Instead of a fully enclosed reception area to greet patients, consider introducing an iPad welcome menu. This is an efficient way to manage the flow of patients within the facility while keeping the space warm and inviting. Consider also having a questionnaire and beverage available for clients.
Guide, Not Dictate
A clear wayfinding system is important for any medical space. From room labels to directional signage, your patients will appreciate these visual elements to guide them throughout the space. Even subtle ones such as these metal inserts in the floor (as shown above) helps patients instinctively navigate where they need to be providing flow, safety, and peace of mind.
Transform, Not Change
Medical visits always stir up anxiety for patients, and the pandemic is increasing the mental pain associated with them. Try to design spaces that will alleviate those anxieties. Induce some calm and relaxation, especially in those places where your patient can feel most vulnerable. For example, restrooms often go overlooked, despite them being the one place where your patients have no distractions. Give the restrooms some extra love by trying to make them more special so that patients can feel relaxed and safe. Mind the lighting, the finishes, even the smells. Trust us that your patients will appreciate it.
Approaching the design of your space from a spirit of abundance rather than restriction creates a positive patient experience. Instead of a fully enclosed reception area to greet patients, consider introducing an iPad welcome menu. This is an efficient way to manage the flow of patients within the facility while keeping the space warm and inviting. Consider also having a questionnaire and beverage available for clients.
Frequently Asked Questions
The first step when designing your medical spa space is to understand your why. When you understand your why for the design, the entire space will be completely patient-experience driven. The details of what and how will fall into place.
When you meet with our design team at Simour, we’ll go over the design questionnaire to help you understand your why and create your core story with our mood board.
Pricing varies for our healthcare interior design services and is customized based on each client’s specific needs. Our pricing also takes into consideration the square footage of your space, the timeline for when you would like the project completed, and location. However, we understand that time and money are the most important factors to your process – we strive to help you get crystal clear on the timeframe and cost once we start our journey together.
Most people think the person they should hire first when designing a new medical space is the architect or contractor. However, this is not the case – you should always hire an interior design specialist first so that your entire project and design is centered around the patient experience (rather than from a technical standpoint).
The three most important parts of your medical space are the lounge area/waiting area, consultation room, and restroom. It’s important that these focal points exude cleanliness, a timeless design, and incorporate the healing elements of your services.
When designing your medical spa, there are a few key features that should always be addressed within these three rooms. These include lighting, anthropometrics (using the dimension of the human form to create an environment that is inclusive and functional), scent, and wayfinding – all of which elevate the patient experience to the next level.
Our approach to healthcare interior design is about creating medical offices and spaces that serve as a physical reminder of your noble purpose. We understand that as a world-class practitioner in your field, healing is both your passion and purpose. Our design aesthetics reflect our belief that your medical office and space should be beautiful and functional. Equally important, your space should be healing to not only your patients but also to you and your staff.
Our design style is simply world-class. Sophisticated, comforting, and functional, we bring transformative healing design features that your space needs to help patients, your staff and yourself feel completely at ease.
We are in a new world and therefore we must transform to respond to our new reality. We propose a holistic approach that integrates these new realities into your brand. Specifically, this can include:
- Plexiglass barriers
- HEPA Filtration
- UVA Air Cleaner
- Temp scanner, oxygen level testers
- PPE – Masks covering mouth and nose
- Social distancing office floor
Our mission is to heal the world through beautiful designs. We pride ourselves on making a medical spa welcoming and functional while representing and elevating your brand story.
Our name comes from the mythological Persian bird, known as the Simour. This beautiful bird is the symbol of medicine and pharmacy in Persian culture and is believed to have the power to purify and heal.
