{"id":443,"date":"2025-02-26T02:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundmask.com.au\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2025-02-13T00:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:35:15","slug":"thorne-harbour-health-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundmask.com.au\/blog\/thorne-harbour-health-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorne Harbour Health case study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-04b545a49a38b8c01fea726f754a67c4 wp-block-paragraph\">Thorne Harbour Health (formerly, The Victorian AIDS Council Inc) provides professional, affordable counselling for individuals and couples who are affected by or at risk of HIV, and for members of the GLBT community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-76d4165e83509ad903f8f196a0ea4262 wp-block-paragraph\">The client approached <a href=\"http:\/\/soundmask.com.au\/contact.htm\">Soundmask<\/a> seeking a solution to speech privacy and noise problems in its head office. The office consisted of two storeys including an open plan area, meeting rooms and counselling suites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The problem<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Counselling and other confidential conversations were taking place in most of the suites. The client&#8217;s solution had been to play the radio in the reception area, and try and keep talking in hallways to a minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-d47b819d72476a0e6197ec3b077bc42b wp-block-paragraph\">Counselling manager Christine Barca* <a href=\"https:\/\/soundmask.com.au\/images\/soundmask_theage.jpg\">explained<\/a> the experience before having a Soundmask system installed in the space:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018\u2019Before we installed it, there was lots of whispering and \u2018Please Be Quiet\u2019 signs everywhere. It could be very unnerving for clients if they heard someone else\u2019s voice. It makes them worry about the confidentiality of their own sessions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The solution<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soundmask installed a Soundmask system comprising in-ceiling transducers and a generator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barca gave her impression of the system once it had been installed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018\u2019You don\u2019t even notice when it\u2019s switched on, but you certainly notice it when it\u2019s off because it feels quite strange. Then you turn it back on and you realise it\u2019s actually very soothing.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, Soundmask installed a zone distributor so that the meeting rooms could be set at a different level compared with the rest of the Thorne Harbour Health building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-48043175cad4d96ea293aaf6a34bfa0e wp-block-paragraph\">*Quoted in <a href=\"https:\/\/soundmask.com.au\/images\/soundmask_theage.jpg\">The Age <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/theage.com.au\">newspaper<\/a>, 13 November 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thorne Harbour Health (formerly, The Victorian AIDS Council Inc) provides professional, affordable counselling for individuals and couples who are affected by or at risk of HIV, and for members of the GLBT community. The client approached Soundmask seeking a solution to speech privacy and noise problems in its head office. 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