OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente, an Oakland-based health care system, set new and aggressive environmental goals for the year 2025, including becoming carbon net positive and sending zero waste to landfills.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, three new sanitation workers have arrived, but they won’t be wearing scrubs. Metallic robots from San Antonio, Texas-based company Xenex Disinfection Services were purchased for $300,000 — or $100,000 a piece — to destroy potential germs and bacteria, especially drug-resistant superbugs like Clostridium difficile, better known as C. Diff, and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
International provider of hosting and cloud services, QTS Realty Trust launched Healthcare Community Cloud (HCC) to offer health care organizations highly secure cloud infrastructure to safely share sensitive data and meet strict regulatory mandates including HIPPA and HITECH. Organizations with HCC will benefit from optimized operations and resources, which will reduce capital expenditures when protecting electronic patient health information. HCC is a cloud solution tailored to health care organizations’ complex compliance requirements.
Carol Zolnerowich has joined Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, a firm with offices in Dallas, Waco and Austin, Texas. In announcing the addition of Zolnerowich, the planning and architecture practice reaffirmed its commitment to client-centered planning.
