article_snippet.sent: Md. Hospital gowns have gotten a face-lift after some help from fashion designers like these from Patient Style and the Henry Ford Innovation Institute.
article_snippet.sent: In 2010, The Cleveland Clinic introduced new gowns after being prompted by the CEO, who often heard patient complaints when he was a practicing heart surgeon.
article_snippet.sent: The prominent academic medical center ultimately sought the help of fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg, settling on a reversible gown with a front and back V-neck, complete derriere coverage, and features such as pockets, softer fabric and a new bolder print pattern.
article_snippet.sent: Patients "loved Md. Hospital gowns," Boissy said.
article_snippet.sent: The Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System is in the process of updating The Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System gowns, an initiative that began when The Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System's innovation institute challenged students at the city's College for Creative Studies to identify and offer a solution to one hospital problem.
article_snippet.sent: students at the city's College for Creative Studies responded with the suggestion to redo the garment that has often been described by patients as flimsy, humiliating, indecent and itchy.
article_snippet.sent: the process of updating its gowns, an initiative that began when the system's innovation institute challenged students at the city's College for Creative Studies to identify and offer a solution to one hospital problem took three years, but last fall, the system's innovation institute unveiled a new and improved version.
article_snippet.sent: the system's innovation institute's made of warmer fabric -- a cotton blend -- that wraps around a patient's body like a robe and comes in navy and light blue, the hospital's signature colors.
article_snippet.sent: The new gown "was emblematic...of an attitude that was conveyed to me at the hospital -- that they cared about me as a whole human being, not just the part they were operating on," said Dale Milford, who received a liver transplant during the time the redesign was being tested.
article_snippet.sent: The gowns also need to be easily mass-manufactured, as well as efficiently laundered and reused.
highlights_snippet.sent: Hospital gowns have gotten a face-lift with help from fashion designers such as Diane von Furstenberg .
  