As distributors, I am sure you have spent more than a few hours wrestling with the new health care laws. Is it conquerable, or will it eat you up like a nasty gator? Here is some information that could help.
The chillers at Broward Health Medical Center were not achieving the kW per ton for which they were rated — a serious problem that they had not been aware of before, and which had probably cost them over $1 million in excess energy use since installation.
LodgeNet Healthcare, a leading provider of integrated patient communication solutions, announced that its environmental control project with Siemens Industry Inc.’s Building Technologies Division has gone live at Maple Grove Hospital in Maple Grove, Minn.
The Small Business Legislative Council (SBLC) is hosting two free webinars on the implementation of health care reform and its impact on small business on April 29.
National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a national nonprofit dedicated to creating safe and healthy homes for children and their families, and Wells Fargo & Co. announced that the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation has committed up to $850,000 over three years to help launch the “Healthy Housing Challenge.”
Health care HVAC systems serve facilities in which the population is highly vulnerable and exposed to elevated risks of health, fire, and safety hazards, notes ASHRAE. A new manual from ASHRAE provides guidance in addressing these issues.
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is implemented in phases over several years, some HVACR business owners are fearful of the program’s potentially detrimental effect on the cost of employee health care coverage.
Several federal agencies have unveiled Advancing Healthy Housing – A Strategy for Action. The initiative’s goal is to address preventable hazards associated with the home. It encourages federal agencies to take preemptive actions that will help reduce the number of American homes with health and safety hazards.
Operating rooms, critical-care facilities, data centers, imaging centers — plus worker productivity — are, to some extent, dependent on the reliable operation of the HVAC system, particularly in warm weather.
Scotsman Ice Systems has announced plans to donate a percentage of each healthcare unit sold to the Global Water Challenge’s newly launched Women for Water campaign. The campaign is a global grassroots initiative that is dedicated to launching women-led water ventures, to provide clean water.
