Congratulations to ACC Care Center for being featured in a 42-page report entitled “Measuring Light Exposure and its Effects on Sleep and Behavior in Care Center Residents” issued by the U.S. Department of Energy.
This study examined the effects of the tunable lighting system implemented at ACC Care Center. The objective was to test a strategy for measuring and documenting light exposure for typical residents and to evaluate the collected data in terms of multiple metrics for human circadian responses over the course of a day.
The research team hypothesized that residents were more likely to be affected by the nighttime tuned lighting than by the daytime tuned lighting, because the tunable lighting system was effective at dropping light levels and the blue-cyan content of the lights in corridors at night.
A BIG KUDOS to the Care Center Team and Dr. Scott Stringer, Medical Director, for their involvement with the ACC Tunable Lighting Project that was completed by the Brown University and the U.S. Department of Energy .
ACC would also like to give special recognition to SMUD for getting us involved with this project more than 5 years ago. Dave Bisbee and Connie Samla were key to getting us involved in Human Centric Lighting and providing us with grants funding from SMUD to do the lighting.
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