2024 NIGHTINGALE AWARDS WINNER PROFILE: OM SEATING OM5® Silver Award in Seating: Conference and Sustainability Award The evolved OM5 series by Phidesign is a complete collection of seating with a wide range of visually and functionally distinct choices for virtually every productivity, healing, and learning environment and aesthetic. At the heart of the OM5 is its pioneering, body-weight-activated, custom-created mechanism that intuitively responds to the sitter's shifting weight, allowing for hands-free adjustments without the limiting downside of too many manual controls. First introduced in 2009, the complete (re-)evolution of this design in 2024 sought to preserve the ability to balance users in any position-from upright tasking to dynamically fl owing anywhere along its reclined posture range. OM5's evolution builds upon years of contract-furniture end-user feedback and myriad real-world test cases to help us know which elements to enhance and which to add. Field-swappable seat cushions and asynchronously adjustable Bilateral Lumbar Support are just some innovative elements of this newest generation of the OM5 Series work chairs. Contributions to this special advertising section have not been reviewed by the Healthcare Design editors. 34 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2025 / SUPPLEMENT TO HEALTHCARE DESIGN Jury Comments * " Overall, great task chair. Very intuitive and innovative when it comes to the seat/ back adjusting to people leaning back. " * " What a fresh concept for conference seating! The seat adjustment that aligns with 'the hip bone' is brilliant! " DAN MONICK