The Nala Chair from Brandrud

Brandrud’s newest high-performance patient chair closely follows the introduction of Cente. Developed through the people and resources of Herman Miller for Healthcare, Nala establishes a new reference point for patient comfort while enabling enhanced caregiver access.

Leveraging the research, technologies and engineering applied to its ergonomic task chairs, Herman Miller for Healthcare partnered with Boston-based Design Continuum to create a patient chair that provides the comfortable support and ergonomic principles and technologies first demonstrated in Herman Miller’s industry-leading work chair designs.

Beth Nickels, President of Herman Miller for Healthcare, notes that Nala has been long awaited by healthcare practitioners who were asking for ergonomic innovation in patient seating. “We’ve had great success with Herman Miller’s ergonomic task chairs, but we knew it was time to develop a health-positive seating product that dramatically improves the patient experience,” she says. “Nala clearly distinguishes itself from all other traditional patient seating.”

Nala’s development over the past year incorporated evidence-based design principles and ongoing prototype analysis with caregivers and ergonomists. “Herman Miller’s Research and Design team consulted with over 200 caregivers and hospital staff from around the country and with over 70 healthcare A&D professionals,” says Tom Granzow, senior program manager with Herman Miller for Healthcare. “We actively pursued their feedback and carefully considered how we could apply it to the final design of the chair.”

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