Patient Privacy Screens
Solid-panel privacy screens that protect patient dignity in every care setting: emergency bays, infusion chairs, exam rooms, and recovery areas. Non-porous, wipeable, and deployed in seconds.
Get a QuotePrivacy Is Part of Patient Care
A patient who feels exposed is less likely to disclose, less likely to rest, and more likely to remember the visit for the wrong reasons.
Privacy in a hospital is not a courtesy. It is a clinical and regulatory expectation, and it shapes how patients experience care. The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires covered entities to apply reasonable safeguards to protect health information, including what can be seen and overheard in shared care areas. Patient experience surveys ask directly about dignity and respect. A curtain that gaps, sags, or cannot be cleaned between patients falls short on all of these fronts.
A patient privacy screen closes that gap with a solid, opaque panel. Rolascreen screens shield the patient from view, reduce speech carry between adjacent bays, and wipe clean between every use with hospital disinfectants. They are the patient-facing side of the same platform described on the medical privacy screen product hub.
Privacy at Every Point in the Patient Journey
The need for a barrier does not start and stop at the exam. It follows the patient through the visit.
Arrival and Triage
Initial history and vitals taken in hallways or overflow areas when rooms are full. A screened space lets patients answer questions without an audience.
Examination and Treatment
Dressing changes, catheter care, and exams in shared bays. Solid panels replace the gap at the curtain edge.
Conversations
Diagnoses, consent discussions, and family conferences that should not carry to the next bay. Rigid panels dampen speech in ways fabric cannot.
Recovery
PACU, infusion, and observation. Patients rest without being on display to passing traffic.
What a Patient Privacy Screen Does for Each Side of the Bed
The same panel serves the patient and the facility. Neither benefit comes at the expense of the other.
For the Patient
- Full visual shielding from a solid, opaque panel, with no gap at the edge
- Reduced noise and visual distraction in busy departments
- Calming printed panels in place of bare walls and institutional dividers
- A consistent experience across the emergency department, infusion, and recovery
- The same standard of privacy in a hallway bed as in a private room
For the Facility
- Supports the reasonable safeguards HIPAA expects in shared care areas
- Cleaned between patients with the disinfectants already in use, including bleach to 10,000 ppm
- Deploys in under 30 seconds with no construction, tracks, or tools
- Redeploys across departments as census and layout change
- One platform for privacy, infection control, and surge flexibility
A Solid Panel, Not a Fabric Curtain
Cubicle curtains were designed for a visual screen, not for privacy in the modern sense. They gap at the edges, they carry sound, and they cannot be cleaned in place. Research shows 92% become colonized with harmful microorganisms within one week of hanging, which means the barrier meant to protect the patient becomes a surface that exposes them.
A Rolascreen patient privacy screen is a continuous, non-porous panel. It blocks the sightline completely, dampens speech in the frequencies that carry conversation, and is wiped down between patients as part of routine room turnover. The comparison is laid out in detail in hospital privacy screens vs. curtains and the underlying material case in infection control partitions.
Compare Screens and CurtainsPatients Who Need Privacy Most
Some care settings raise the stakes. The screen is the same, but the reason it matters changes.
Pediatric Patients
Children read the environment before they read the clinician. A screen printed with calming imagery lowers the visual stress of a busy department and gives parents a defined space to comfort a child.
Sensitive and Behavioral Care
Mental health assessments, sexual health visits, and trauma evaluations require conversations that cannot carry to the next bay. Rigid panels reduce speech transfer in ways a curtain cannot.
Nursing and Postpartum
New mothers, nursing patients, and staff who need to express milk require a space that is shielded from view and free from intrusion. A portable screen creates it in any room.
Calming Panels, Custom Printed
The panel patients look at can be more than a barrier. Nature scenes, soft color fields, and pediatric artwork are printed in-house on the same non-porous film used for standard panels, so the calming surface survives the same disinfection cycle. Health systems also print logos, wayfinding colors, and department identification.
Custom printing is included at no extra cost when graphics are supplied ready. See the process at add your brand or browse the sample art gallery.
Explore Custom Printing
Patient Privacy Screens in Clinical Use
Trusted by Over 1,200 Hospitals Nationwide
Patient privacy screens deployed across 47 states, from the VA to the Mayo Clinic.
Patient Privacy Screens: Common Questions
A patient privacy screen is a movable, solid-panel barrier placed around a patient to shield them from view during care. Unlike a cubicle curtain, it uses a rigid, opaque panel rather than fabric, which closes the gap at the edges, reduces sound carry, and can be disinfected in place between patients. Rolascreen screens extend to 10' from a compact base and are used across emergency departments, infusion centers, exam rooms, and recovery areas.
They support it. The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires reasonable safeguards to limit incidental disclosure of health information, including what is seen and overheard in shared care areas. A solid panel that blocks the sightline and dampens speech is a stronger safeguard than a fabric curtain. A screen is one part of a compliance program, not a substitute for policy, training, and workflow, but it addresses the physical exposure that curtains leave open.
For privacy and hygiene in shared bays, yes. A solid panel blocks the view completely, reduces sound transfer, and is wiped clean between patients, while fabric curtains gap, carry sound, and require removal and laundering to decontaminate. Curtains still make sense in a few situations, such as fixed private rooms where a track already exists and turnover is low. The full comparison is at hospital privacy screens vs. curtains.
Yes. The non-porous polyester film panel is wiped down in place with the disinfectants your facility already uses, including bleach to 10,000 ppm, quaternary ammonium compounds, accelerated hydrogen peroxide, and alcohol wipes. Cleaning takes under two minutes per screen and fits into the standard room turnover pass.
Yes. Rolascreen ships factory-direct from Los Angeles to hospitals, clinics, and health systems across 47 states, including New York, where screens are deployed in health systems such as NYU Langone, NYC Health + Hospitals, and Montefiore. There is no distributor tier and no regional restriction. Request a quote with your facility location and deployment scope and you will receive a response within one business day.
Yes. Nature scenes, soft colors, pediatric artwork, and health system branding are printed in-house on the same non-porous film used for standard panels, at no extra cost when graphics are supplied ready. The printed surface survives the same disinfection cycle as an unprinted panel. See add your brand.
Emergency departments lead, followed by infusion centers, PACU and pre-op, dialysis, and outpatient clinics. Any department that treats patients in shared or open space has the same need. For how the same platform divides those spaces at the department level, see hospital partition systems.
Protect Patient Dignity in Every Bay
Tell us where your patients are being treated in shared space. We will scope the screens to match. Quotes are no-obligation and typically returned within one business day.
Request a QuoteScreens vs. Curtains