Faux Skylight
SkyV is a ceiling-mounted system of HD LCD screens that provide a faux skylight framework that has the potential to create a more comfortable patient environment. The system includes multi-channel graphics processors and specialized synchronization software that simulates outdoor views. Views include cloud formations and trees with leaves.
Main Street America
History is often the element that ties people in rural communities together, but if that history also applies to an active healthcare facility, the community could have a problem on its hands.
Until the recent opening of a replacement hospital, Bell Memorial Hospital in Ishpeming, Mich., held the distinction of being the oldest hospital in the state. The 90-year-old facility was crumbling as it continued to serve patients from the former mining communities at the midpoint of Michigan’s isolated upper peninsula.
Shoji Panels
Cherry Tree Design offers a line of shoji screens and dividers to help create calming spaces in healthcare facilities. The screens can help enhance the look and feel of waiting rooms and treatment for a variety of medical spaces, without sacrificing light and flexible space, according to the manufacturer. The products are constructed of reinforced or encapsulated papers that are durable and washable, and feature tension-fitted joints, hand-rubbed finishes and premium-grade solid hardwoods.
Louvered Insulated Glass
Vision Control insulated glass is outfitted with integral louvers to allows physicians and nurses to view patients. The product eliminates strings and minimizes maintenance while offering energy savings.
The units are hermetically sealed for improved indoor air quality and to reduce infections and allergies. The glass panels offer privacy and sound attenuation in the closed position. When installed in exterior applications, the panels provide significant thermal performance and energy savings, resulting in a decrease in capital cost and annual operational energy costs.
Wireless Generator Monitor
The PowerCommand iWatch from Cummins Power Generation Inc. remotely monitors generator sets and transmits the data through cellular or satellite networks. The system allows users to access operational data using a personal computer and Internet connection, e-mail or text messages on a cell phone. Alarm conditions are also sent through any of the three media.
Users can start, stop or check the status of the on-site power supply anywhere where there is an Internet connection or receive alarm notifications where cell phone or pagers work.