January 16, 2013
Achieving High Reliability in HVAC Rotating Machinery
Few systems are as critical to hospital operation and patient comfort as HVAC systems, which are driven by various rotating machines and components including blowers, fans, electric motors, belt drives and bearings.
New PTSD Clinic to Enhance Veteran Care
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — More than two years after construction began in November 2010, a new post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clinic for veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is scheduled to debut this spring at the Memphis Veterans’ Administration Medical Center in Tennessee.
Rich Driggs
Rich Driggs was named national director of construction management and design-build at Heery International. With more than 22 years of construction and real estate industry experience, Driggs comes to the company from Lend Lease Corporation, where he served as executive vice president and head of Integrated Projects—Americas.
Storage and Disinfectant System
CS Medical’s transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) probe storage cabinets are designed to hang endoscopes in order to protect them from contamination. Using positive-pressure filtered air, the cabinet disinfects TEE probes to minimize potential airborne particles within the unit. Tips and insertion tubes are hung freely inside the storage system while the control handles and connectors are held in secure positions. Two sizes are available: the AC-TE-03, which stores up to three probes, and the AC-TE-06, which stores up to six probes.
Memorial Medical Center Expansion Gets Approval
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. — The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board unanimously approved Memorial Medical Center’s $122.3 million expansion and renovation project on Dec. 10 in Bolingbrook.
Flu Continues to Spread Nationwide
ATLANTA — The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, reported that the country is experiencing high levels of influenza-like-illness (ILI) in its FluView report, released on Jan. 4.