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Kirlin Spring Webinar Series: Healthcare Lighting Innovations You Can’t Miss

The future of healthcare lighting design is here. Kirlin is hosting a Spring Webinar Series focused on cutting-edge lighting solutions for hospitals, women’s healthcare facilities, neurodivergent-friendly environments, and behavioral health spaces.

Each 30-minute session includes expert insights, the latest research in healthcare lighting, a look at Kirlin’s innovative products—including upcoming releases—and a live Q&A.

Join us for one or all four sessions, available at two convenient time slots:
🕦 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET
🕞 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

March 4 – Hospitality in the Hospital: Elevating Patient Comfort with Lighting

Designing hospital lighting requires more than just meeting functional requirements—it’s about enhancing patient comfort while maintaining infection control and efficiency.

💡 What You’ll Learn:
✔ Balancing aesthetics, safety, and performance in healthcare lighting design
✔ Tunable White, Ambient+, and Color-Changing LED technologies for patient-centric spaces
✔ Selecting easy-to-maintain, high-performance lighting for hospitals and critical care environments

Register for Hospitality in the Hospital

March 6 – Tailored Lighting for Women’s Healthcare Environments

Lighting impacts patient outcomes and staff performance in women’s healthcare spaces, from Labor & Delivery rooms to NICUs. This session covers how specialized lighting solutions enhance comfort, functionality, and care.

💡 What You’ll Learn:
✔ How lighting supports patient-centered care in Labor & Delivery rooms
✔ Designing NICU lighting for newborns, families, and caregivers
✔ Addressing ergonomic lighting needs for female healthcare professionals

Register for Tailored Lighting for Women’s Healthcare

March 11 – Lighting for Neurodivergence: Creating Inclusive Spaces

Lighting plays a crucial role in neurodivergent-friendly design, impacting sensory perception, focus, and emotional well-being. Learn how adaptive lighting strategies create calming, comfortable environments.

💡 What You’ll Learn:
✔ Why neurodivergent-inclusive lighting design matters
✔ How color temperature, brightness, and flicker affect neurodivergent individuals
✔ Strategies to reduce overstimulation in hospitals, schools, and public spaces

Register for Lighting for Neurodivergence

March 13 – Putting the Patient in Control in Behavioral Health Spaces

Behavioral health lighting solutions should promote calmness, safety, and autonomy. This webinar explores human-centric lighting and vandal-resistant controls that empower patients.

💡 What You’ll Learn:
✔ Using LED lighting to create adaptable, soothing environments
✔ Ligature-resistant lighting controls to balance safety and autonomy
✔ Designing behavioral health spaces with patient-centric lighting solutions

Register for Putting the Patient in Control in Behavioral Health Spaces

Why Attend Kirlin’s Spring Webinar Series?

  • Stay Ahead of Trends – Learn about the latest healthcare lighting advancements.
  • Discover New Products – Get a sneak peek at upcoming Kirlin innovations.
  • Get Expert Insights – Hear from industry leaders on best practices for lighting in healthcare.

Sign up today to secure your spot! Whether you’re focused on hospital lighting solutions, behavioral health design, or neurodivergent-friendly lighting, this webinar series is for you.

2024: A Year of Innovation, Growth, and Recognition at Kirlin

As we reflect on 2024, we’re proud to share the milestones that have defined a big and exciting year for Kirlin. From groundbreaking product launches to industry accolades, this year has been one of innovation, collaboration, and inspiration.

Product Launches: 30 New Solutions for Your Projects

This year, we introduced 30 new products to our catalog, designed to meet the evolving needs of lighting specifiers:

  • 11 Ambient+ Fixtures: Combining static white lighting with vibrant static color, these fixtures offer six narrow-band wavelengths to create dynamic environments, perfect for healthcare and architectural spaces.
  • 15 SmartLED MRI Color-Changing Fixtures: New RGBW color-changing downlights, cylinders, and sconces enhance the MRI lighting family, offering the ability to change colors during scans and integrate seamlessly with existing products.
  • 2 Strait Secure Wall Slots: Designed for behavioral health and other robust applications, these ligature- and vandal-resistant fixtures offer static white or RGBW color-changing options and can feature scenic patterns or images, matching the Strait Secure Slots family.
  • 2 Strait Slots: Versatile linear fixtures offering static white, tunable white, and RGBW color-changing options with direct distribution and asymmetric capabilities, delivering up to 1500 lumens per foot in static white.

New Tools for Seamless Specification

We launched 3 new configurators on the Kirlin website to streamline the specification process:

  • MRI Configurator: Ensures all necessary components for remote-driver MRI systems are specified for a turnkey solution.
  • Symphony Configurator: Simplifies specification for Symphony’s remote-driver systems, ensuring seamless integration.
  • Scenic Configurator: Helps visualize artwork and patterns, making it easier to specify and customize Scenic product designs.

Awards and Recognitions

Kirlin received 6 major awards this year, celebrating our products and people:

Sustainability and Inspiration

Kirlin continues to prioritize visual inspiration with the release of 4 new brochures and information sheets:

Leadership and Team Growth

In February, we welcomed Logan Gerhard as President, bringing his extensive industry experience to guide Kirlin into an exciting future of innovation and customer focus.

Color Coordination and 2025 Preview

We expanded our custom color lineup, introducing options that perfectly coordinate with Scenic pattern images. And this is just the beginning—new colors are already in the works for 2025!

As we close out 2024, we want to thank you for your continued support and collaboration. Together, we’ve made this year one to remember, and we’re excited to share what’s next in 2025. Stay tuned for even more innovations, tools, and inspiration from Kirlin!

Kirlin Lighting Welcomes New President, Logan Gerhard, and Announces Leadership Team Expansion

Detroit, MI – The Kirlin Company, a leader in the engineering, design, and manufacturing of lighting solutions for healthcare and architectural applications, is excited to announce the promotion of Chris Brownell to CEO and to welcome Logan Gerhard as President. This pivotal moment in the company’s leadership evolution reflects the sustained success and growth led by Chairman and Owner Jana Kirlin Brownell, the fourth generation of the Kirlin family to operate the company. In partnership with her son, Chris Brownell, who joined Kirlin in 2019 as the fifth generation of continuous family management, the executive team is expanding to capitalize on Kirlin’s enduring legacy of delivering superior, sustainable, and human-centric lighting solutions.

As its new President, Logan brings to Kirlin an impressive background in the lighting industry spanning sales, marketing, manufacturing, operations, product development, and entrepreneurship. His deep understanding of the market, particularly within the architectural lighting sector, was honed during his tenure as President of LF Illumination and Delray Lighting, and as General Manager of the RSA Lighting brand at Cooper.

Expressing his excitement about the new role, Logan remarked, “I am thrilled to join Kirlin, a company with a rich legacy that is committed to the future of innovative lighting. I look forward to contributing to its growth and continued focus on solution development, setting new benchmarks for quality, sustainability, service, and excellence within the lighting industry.”

Jana Kirlin Brownell, Chairman of Kirlin, echoed this sentiment, stating, “I am very excited to add Logan to Kirlin’s talented and passionate team; his expertise will undoubtedly keep our company at the forefront of lighting innovation. His vision for Kirlin’s future aligns perfectly with our mission, to create innovative lighting solutions of unmatched quality, empowering lighting professionals to design spaces that go beyond illumination to enhance the human experience.”

Chris Brownell, who has served as Kirlin’s President since 2022, shared insights on the company’s direction, “At a time when much of our industry is facing consolidation, Kirlin stands out by strategically expanding and attracting great talent. Our commitment to remaining independent and family-owned enables us to stay nimble, supports product innovation, and ultimately allows us to serve the lighting industry in a way that only we can. Kirlin’s time-tested approach coupled with Logan’s leadership sets us on a path to further success and greater impact.”

The entire team at Kirlin welcomes Logan and invites members of the lighting industry to visit booth 918 in the Grand Ballroom at LEDucation this March, where the company will be showcasing its latest innovations.

About Kirlin: Founded in 1895, Kirlin is a testament to enduring family ownership and a commitment to American manufacturing excellence. As a certified woman-owned business led by Jana Kirlin Brownell, Kirlin not only champions quality and innovation at its Detroit, MI headquarters and factory, but also contributes to its local community as a federally-certified HUBZone business, creating jobs in a Historically Underutilized Business Zone.

Kirlin is recognized as a premier lighting manufacturer, addressing complex design challenges with groundbreaking solutions across diverse applications, including healthcare facilities, schools, theatrical settings, mass transit stations, natatoriums, public spaces, and laboratories. The company’s dedication to excellence has been acknowledged through numerous awards, including 2023’s “Coolest Thing Made in Michigan”, annual recognition in the IES Progress Report, numerous Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards, and designation as one of the “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch” in 2023 by Michigan Celebrates Small Business.

For further details about Kirlin, please visit our website at www.kirlinlighting.com.

Save the Date for Kirlin’s 2024 CEU Courses in Detroit!

We are thrilled to announce the 2024 CEU seminar dates that are designed to help you stay at the forefront of healthcare facility lighting design and earn valuable credits. Our courses are all about creating safe, comfortable, and healing environments in modern healthcare facilities. 

Dates:

  • April 17-19, 2024
  • September 18-20, 2024

Location:

Kirlin’s Detroit factory in our recently renovated showroom

Agenda:

Interested in more details on what these sessions entail? Check out our agenda! 

Ready to sign up? You can do so here.

Course Highlights:

  • CEU credits
  • In-depth knowledge on lighting for modern healthcare facilities
  • Expert insights on creating safe and healing environments
  • Practical design strategies and applications
  • A look at new, and coming soon Kirlin products
  • A Kirlin factory tour

New and Exciting Addition:

On Thursday afternoon, we’re introducing a special local event to help you get to know the Kirlin crew and connect with fellow attendees. It’s the perfect chance to unwind, network, and foster connections that could be invaluable to your career.

We believe that the best learning experiences happen when you combine education with enjoyment, and we can’t wait to share this memorable event with you.

Our team is excited to welcome you to our Detroit factory, where you’ll experience firsthand our dedication to lighting innovation and quality. We’re proud of our recently renovated showroom, which showcases our latest products and technologies, creating an inspiring environment for learning and collaboration.

Build America, Buy America Act Compliance

As of 2022 the Build America, Buy America Act is in effect for federal agencies. In addition to Buy America Act and Buy American, any Kirlin product that carries the “Made in the USA” mark on its specification sheet qualifies as “produced in the United States” under the Build America, Buy American Act. Our team is happy to furnish product-specific compliance letters on request; please contact us for assistance! For more information on our commitment to American manufacturing, check out this page.

Kirlin Launches New Website

We are pleased to announce Kirlin’s new website has been officially launched! We hope you like the added product filters to quickly find what you’re looking for, the addition of application pages for help in designing challenging spaces such as MRIs, Cath Labs, theaters, natatoriums, etc., as well as the rest of the features we’ve included. For a quick walk through of the website, check out this quick YouTube video.

Chris Brownell Appointed President

It is with great excitement that we share the news that Chris Brownell is being promoted to President of Kirlin, the fifth generation of Kirlin family to lead our stellar organization! “Having demonstrated dedication, keen intellect, quantitative and interpersonal skills, and technical aptitude critical for success in the global specification lighting market, I am confident in Chris’ ability to lead Kirlin into the future with tremendous success” says Jana Kirlin Brownell, Chairman. Our future is bright, indeed!

Please join us in congratulating Chris on this well-deserved promotion to the helm of The Kirlin Company.

IES Honors Kirlin’s IK10-Rated Vandal Scenic & White Panels in 2021 Progress Report

Kirlin is excited to announce that our Vandal White & Scenic Panels have been recognized by the Illuminating Engineering Society in their 2021 Progress Report! The esteemed annual Progress Report makes its selections each year based on a product’s “uniqueness, innovation, and significance to the lighting industry.” 

Kirlin’s Ligature-resistant, IK10-rated white & scenic panels are available in a recessed design or surface mount. Engineered for high-abuse environments, these fixtures enhance patient safety and comfort.

Celebrating 125 Years of Lighting Innovation

While 2020 was full of challenges for our industry, our nation, and the world, we at Kirlin have a lot to be thankful for (past, present, and future!). Take a peek at our video to learn more about the Kirlin story, and the many positives that came out of a very unexpected 125th year. For more on an in-depth look, check out our About Us page.

Watch the video here: