Hospitals Need to Get Serious about Natural Lighting

Patients need exposure to sunlight to optimize their recovery

The value of daylight for promoting faster patient recovery, and shorter lengths of stay in hospital is hardly a new idea. As Florence Nightingale wrote in her textbook on nursing in 1860, “It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick, that second only to their need of fresh air is their need of light; that, after a closed room, what …