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Get the Most out of the Healthcare Audio-Visual Experience

Integrated operating rooms allow picture archive and communication system images to be accessed and viewed with audio-video technology. The most fully integrated systems extend A/V capabilities to remote viewing sites. Consequently, facilities must consider the placement of cameras and monitors, coordinating them with various booms, and the typical positions of surgical staff.

Since space is one of a hospital’s most valuable commodities, particularly in operating rooms, adequate space for A/V equipment must be allocated early in the design process.

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Fit For A King

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Sanford Children’s Hospital has made it easier for sick kids to imagine their doctors as knights in shinning white armor, instead of lab coats, with a new $60 million, 179,000-square-foot facility designed to resemble a storybook castle.

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Medical Center Consolidates Outpatient Services

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System recently opened the doors of its new Valley Specialty Center, a 244,000-square-foot facility that consolidates 22 outpatient specialty services.

The new center — a $151 million project built with $129 million in bond money, $15 million from the San Jose Redevelopment Agency and money from the Valley Medical Center Foundation, among other sources — replaces the previous facility that was aging and burdened with more patients than it was built to handle, according to hospital officials.

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