2012 - Page 23 of 28

Products

Bulk Laundry and Linen Truck

15 years ago2 mins

Laundry product manufacturer Meese Orbitron Dunne Co. is including its rugged, rotationally molded plastic base upgrade as a standard feature on its bulk laundry and linen trucks. Rotomolded in one piece of 100 percent polyethylene surrounding molded-in steel tubes, the waterproof poly base offers heavy load bearing strength to metal bases yet cannot rust or corrode and provides comparable rigidity yet cannot deteriorate from water, rot or pests, according to the company.

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Water-Cooled Screw Chiller

15 years ago15 years ago1 mins

Johnson Controls’ York YVWA water-cooled screw chiller is designed for energy efficiency. The unit is designed to cut energy costs and carbon emissions by as much as 30 percent while increasing sustainability by using the HFC-134a refrigerant, which has zero ozone-depletion potential and no phase-out date, according to the company.

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Treatment/Patient Room Recliner

15 years ago2 mins

PROMOTION — Champion’s Passage treatment recliner offers soft, radius lines for a more “at-home feeling” that fits flawlessly in a patient room or other health care setting. The Trendelenburg feature comes standard and is unmatched in efficiency and ease of operation. The Passage is ideal for use in oncology, surgery centers, dialysis, infusion therapies, patient rooms, long-term care environments and other treatment needs.

People

Tapati Bose

15 years ago10 years ago1 mins

Tapati Bose, LEED AP recently became a registered architect. Bose has been with BJAC since 2007, offering services for education, research and municipal projects. Her responsibilities include handling LEED certification process for the North Carolina History Center at Tryon Palace. Currently, she is working on a project involving Hillsborough Hospital.

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Neil Howry

15 years ago10 years ago1 mins

ETC Building & Design hired Neil Howry as the general superintendent for Northern California. Howry has worked in construction since 1994 when he started as a carpenter. Howry has served as superintendent at Centex Construction in Santa Monica, Calif. and more recently, lead superintendent at Clark Construction in Oakland, Calif.

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Janis Cruz

15 years ago10 years ago1 mins

Janis Cruz recently joined ETC Building & Design, an architecture firm specializing in health care, biotech and seismic retrofits, as the director of project management. Cruz has more than 17 years of experience in project management, seven of which have been focused on health care design and construction projects at Scripps Health and Rady Children’s Hospital, both in San Diego.

News

Patients Concerned With EHR Data Safety, Survey Finds

15 years ago6 mins

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite a general trust in doctors using electronic health records and support for health information technology, a recent study found that consumers have persistent concerns that data breaches will occur.

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Optum Takes Health Care to the Cloud

15 years ago4 mins

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Optum, an information and technology-enabled health services business, launched a secure, cloud-based environment designed to help health care administrators communicate and collaborate more effectively to improve health outcomes.

The Optum health care cloud aims to help health professionals communicate and access essential health intelligence more efficiently, create and deploy health applications quickly and manage technology in their offices or across networks with ease, according to a statement from the company.

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Acorn Family of Companies Is Now Morris Group International

15 years ago15 years ago2 mins

CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. — The Acorn Family of Companies has officially changed its name to Morris Group International.

The new name will allow the company to better acknowledge and promote its diverse line of businesses, including Acorn Engineering Company, the founding company, as well as all of the other divisions formerly under the Acorn Family of Companies umbrella.

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Health Care Construction Expected to Increase

15 years ago15 years ago6 mins

MINNEAPOLIS — A majority of health care facility administrators expect construction to increase in the next one to two years, according to a survey conducted by Mortenson Construction.

Conducted at the Fall 2011 Healthcare Design Conference in Nashville, Tenn., the survey questioned more than 300 conference attendees. Mortenson sponsored the event’s cyber café and surveyed attendees as they logged in to use the computers. Participants included health care administrators and facilities managers, architects, builders and suppliers.