SkyV is a ceiling-mounted system of HD LCD screens that provide a faux skylight framework that has the potential to create a more comfortable patient environment. The system includes multi-channel graphics processors and specialized synchronization software that simulates outdoor views. Views include cloud formations and trees with leaves.
History is often the element that ties people in rural communities together, but if that history also applies to an active healthcare facility, the community could have a problem on its hands.
Until the recent opening of a replacement hospital, Bell Memorial Hospital in Ishpeming, Mich., held the distinction of being the oldest hospital in the state. The 90-year-old facility was crumbling as it continued to serve patients from the former mining communities at the midpoint of Michigan’s isolated upper peninsula.
