article_snippet.sent: The Cleveland Clinic was an early trendsetter.
article_snippet.sent: That feedback led to a search for something new, said Boissy.
article_snippet.sent: People felt much more comfortable in the design, not just physically but emotionally.
article_snippet.sent: They "are demanding more privacy and more dignity," said Michael Forbes, a product designer at the Henry Ford Innovation Institute.
article_snippet.sent: When the system's innovation institute tested his gown design, Forbes said, patient-satisfaction scores noticeably increased in a few days.
article_snippet.sent: That was the subtext of that whole thing, was that they were caring about me as a person and what it meant for me to be comfortable.
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