TIFTON, Ga. — Tift Regional Health System in Tifton will be changing the way that it stores patient information as the hospital moves to put all financial and medical information into one system. The new platform will combine seven information systems to allow doctors and patients to stay healthy and on budget when providing care, according to local new source WTOC.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare has hired Stephen M. Merz, FACHE, as the new CEO. Merz has more than 20 years of experience as a health care executive in Connecticut. Most recently, he led the behavioral health service line of Yale New Haven Hospital, where he has spent the majority of his career overseeing more than 1,500 beds and 13,500 employees. During his time in New Haven, Merz worked on many initiatives that helped integrate mental health care into the larger health system and community.
Sentient is offering customizable image displays used in Radiation Therapy rooms to give the patient a personalized, calming environment. The radiation therapy features HD and 4K Ultra HD resolutions to give patients the sharpest display available. It is available in portrait or landscape mode and can be installed on walls or ceilings in multiple different display configurations. The product is custom engineered for radiation therapy environments and comes with custom bezels to match wall or ceiling selections. The company offers recessed installation and surface mount framing systems.
DALLAS — The Parkland Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) is taking part in a new quality-improvement project called ICU Liberation, in hopes of improving the effects that intensive-care patients face after being released from the hospital.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The patients of Greenville Health System are now able to access care via computer, smartphone or tablet this month as the health system rolls out its new telecare system. The system not only allows patients access to their information, but it also allows patients with minor illnesses such as bladder infections, sore throats, ear pain or sinus infections to be examined through SmartExam, the hospital’s telemedicine portal.
Armstrong Flooring offers Migrations BBT Bio-flooring, made with Bio-Stride polymer. The product is made with rapidly renewable resources and provides enhanced performance over composition tile. The tile is available in 28 different colors allowing for different visual designs. The product has five times greater resistance to impact and more than 2.5 times greater resistance to cracking than standard tile. It comes in a 12-inch by 12-inch format in the Migrations line, and 12-inch by 24-inch in the Striations line.
Edmund M. Einy, FAIA has joined Taylor Design, a solutions-oriented architecture, environments and strategies firm. Serving as firm-wide director of architecture based in the company’s Irvine, Calif., office, Einy brings more than three decades of design and leadership experience creating forward-thinking structures and collaborative partnerships in health care, academic, government and commercial industries.
In-Dapt Ceiling System developed by Palmer, Texas-based Walters Healthcare Resources is a modular, medical construction grid system that allows for the easy installation and repositioning of the ever-increasing technologies and services that are installed in, routed through or hang from the ceiling. Eliminating the complexity of adding new technologies and reducing the time involved from weeks to literally overnight, the In-Dapt Ceiling System removes the typical obstacles that hospitals face when considering upgrades.
Ames Fire & Waterworks announced a new grooved-end automatic control valve (ACV) for reducing water pressure in fire protection systems. The grooved-end 910GF ACV is UL Listed and available in 2- to 8-inch sizes. It is typically installed in commercial or industrial fire sprinkler systems to automatically reduce a higher inlet pressure to an adjustable lower outlet pressure. The diaphragm-actuated, pilot-operated valve is sensitive to downstream flow and pressure fluctuations.
