directory signs and building directories

Shop directory signs for helping patients, residents, visitors, and staff identify departments, offices, suites, providers, and other destinations throughout healthcare facilities. Choose from changeable building directories in a range of listing capacities, then select the size and style that fit your lobby, entrance, or shared space and customize the directory for your facility.

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Choose a Building Directory by Listing Capacity

Start with the number of destinations your directory needs to accommodate, then consider how much room you may need as providers, departments, suites, or services change. HealthcareSigns.com offers directory sizes for smaller listings as well as high-capacity building directories designed to organize dozens of destinations in one location.

• 10-Line Directory: A compact option for facilities that need to organize a smaller group of offices, departments, providers, or destinations.
• 30-Line Directory: Provides significantly more listing space for medical buildings and healthcare facilities with multiple departments, suites, or providers.
• 60-Line Directory: Gives larger facilities room to organize an extensive list of destinations without splitting the information across several directory boards.
• 90-Line Directory: Designed for high-capacity applications where a large number of offices, suites, providers, departments, or services need to be organized in one central location.

Consider both your present listing needs and how the directory may need to accommodate changes over time before choosing a size.

Building Directories for Entrances and Lobbies

Building directories are especially useful near entrances, lobbies, reception areas, and other arrival points where visitors first need to understand how the facility is organized. In healthcare settings, they can identify destinations such as doctors' offices, medical suites, imaging areas, specialty care departments, administrative offices, and other locations within the building.

Place the directory where visitors can review it before they need to choose a hallway, elevator, stairway, or other route. In larger buildings, the main directory can provide the initial destination information while directional and floor-specific wayfinding signs continue the route elsewhere in the facility.

Office Directory Signs for Healthcare Facilities

Office directory signage helps organize multiple providers, suites, departments, or services within one medical office building. An office directory sign can be especially useful in shared professional buildings, outpatient centers, specialty practices, and other healthcare locations where visitors enter through a common lobby before continuing to individual destinations.

For office building directories, consider how listings should be organized so visitors can scan them quickly. Depending on the facility, that may mean arranging destinations alphabetically, by suite number, by department, or using another consistent structure that makes sense for the building.

The directory should also leave enough capacity to accommodate changes without making the display unnecessarily difficult to scan.

Plan Your Building Directory Before Ordering

Before customizing your building directory board, gather the destination names that need to appear and decide how they should be organized. Consistent terminology is important: if a department is identified one way on the directory, use the same name on directional and identification signs elsewhere in the facility.

Also consider:

• Listing Capacity: Choose a directory with enough room for the destinations you need to display while accounting for anticipated additions or changes.
• Listing Organization: Decide whether offices, departments, providers, or suites should be arranged alphabetically, numerically, by floor, or by another logical grouping.
• Update Needs: Consider how frequently listings are likely to change and how easily individual inserts will need to be replaced.
• Installation Location: Position the directory where visitors can stop and review it before reaching a major wayfinding decision point.

Coordinate Office Building Directory Signs with Wayfinding

Office building directory signs work best as the starting point of a larger navigation system. A visitor may use the building directory to identify the correct floor, suite, or department, then rely on directional arrow signs, floor directories, hallway signs, and room identification to complete the trip.

Use the same destination terminology throughout that route. If a specialty is listed one way on the main directory, repeating that wording on subsequent wayfinding signs reduces the chance that visitors will wonder whether two different labels refer to the same destination.

A coordinated system also lets you select directory and wayfinding products with related design elements, so the building's navigation signs feel connected rather than assembled one location at a time.

Shop Building Directories Online

Choose the directory capacity that fits your healthcare facility, compare available designs, and customize the applicable header, listings, colors, and other options for your space. Whether you need a smaller office directory sign or a high-capacity directory for dozens of destinations, browse the products above to select and order the right option online.

Need additional wayfinding beyond the directory? Continue shopping HealthcareSigns.com for directional arrow signs, floor directory signs, hallway signs, and other coordinating wayfinding products.