Ellis Hospital Solves Emissions Complaints With New AHUs

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The last place you need to make you sick is the hospital.

When Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y., a part of the Ellis Medicine health care system, faced vehicle exhaust emissions entering through fresh air intakes, administrators sought out a solution to the challenge.

The existing six-story facility, which was rebuilt in 2010, includes a fresh air intake under a covered area that serves a primary pick-up and drop-off point for patients entering and leaving the facility.

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Bulk Laundry and Linen Truck

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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

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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

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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.

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Optum Takes Health Care to the Cloud

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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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Health Care Construction Expected to Increase

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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.

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Floor and Ceiling Assembly Joists

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Weyerhaeuser’s Trus Joist TJI joist line with Flak Jacket protection is designed to provide builders with a simple, cost-effective way to achieve one-hour floor/ceiling assemblies and to comply with the new 2012 IRC fire protection requirements, according to the company. The new TJI joists with Flak Jacket protection, reduce the need for gypsum or wallboard. Additionally, Weyerhaeuser provides the unit with a limited lifetime warranty.

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LED Downlights

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Juno Lighting Group launched the new Indy Performance Series LED Downlights for new construction, remodel and retrofit applications. The LED series features a hyperbolic reflector design to reduce glare, and a chip-on-board light engine technology that provides uniform illumination.

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