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Rapid technological change is requiring more advanced planning than ever in today's healthcare facilities. When you need to leverage technology to improve your operation, you should rely on experienced professionals to guide your decisions. EDI, Ltd. is a professional consulting and design firm specializing in communications technologies, hospital security, and audio-visual systems that can assist you in meeting the current and future demands of patient care delivery.

Whether you are embarking on a replacement project, expanding medical services in your current hospital, or deploying new technology infrastructure, EDI can help you save time and lower costs on your next project. Our multi-disciplined professional engineers and consultants are experts in developing requirements, establishing realistic project budgets, and designing systems that deliver maximum value over their lifetime. Our implementation experience augments your in-house capabilities.

Our areas of expertise include:

Medical Communications

• Technology master planning
• Structured cabling system for:
  • Voice and data networks (includes all IP addressable systems: computers, printers scanners, fax, modems, phones, dictation, monitors, Pyxis, ParX or OmniCell, PACS, etc.)
  • Time and attendance clocks
  • TV outlets and horizontal cabling
  • Wireless LAN and Voice access points
  • Teleconferencing/telemedicine connectivity
  • LAN and TV fiber and copper riser and distribution systems
  • Telephone system cabling and riser distribution
  • Satellite dishes and antennas
• Telephone systems including PBX and VoIP solutions
• Nurse call/code blue systems
• Patient and equipment tracking
• CCU/ICU & isolation room monitoring
• Telecom, server and IDF room space planning, power, lighting, cooling, grounding, coring, ladder racks, equipment racks, patch panels, and associated requirements
• PACS coordination and design

Information Technology Consulting and Design

• Strategic information systems and telecommunications planning, programming and auditing
• Construction documents, specifications and RFP development
• Project management and implementation
• Enterprise-wide LAN/WAN planning and design
• Data center design
• Telephone system design: PBX, ACD, call centers, CTI, campus networks, and virtual private networks
• Voice/data service provisioning and auditing
• Network: health audits, tuning, diagnosis, troubleshooting, and analysis
• Capacity planning and modeling
• Information security consulting and planning
• Data/voice/video cable plant design: indoor, outdoor, and campus
• Relocation and move management services
• Remote and internet access
• Specialty medical communications including nurse call, wireless personal communicators, etc.

Security Systems

• Security master planning
• Security consulting including design for CCTV, access control, emergency call stations, digital video recording, command centers, infant monitoring, etc.
• CCTV/access control
• Security threat analysis
• Security policy and program development

Wireless Systems

• Wireless LAN and voice systems
• In-building cellular phone
• Land mobile radio

Network Design

• Network security consulting
• Disaster recovery planning
• Data center planning and design
• WAN design and coordination
• LAN design including active electronic equipment specification and procurement

Audio-Visual Systems

• Audio-visual systems including remote OR and ICU monitoring, training rooms, conference rooms, auditoriums, board rooms, video conferencing, etc.
• Public address, intercom and overhead paging systems
• Television (CATV, SATV, CCTV, Video-on-demand)
• Overhead paging and sound masking
• Instructional multi-media
• Boardrooms
• Training rooms
• Network operations centers
• Video-teleconferencing
• Distance learning
• Media retrieval

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MidMichigan Medical Center
Midland, MI

218,000 Square Feet

This project consists of a new five-story addition patient tower, including a new three-story main entrance, six new operating rooms, new ambulatory surgery and interventional prep/recovery suites, locker rooms, support areas, 22 ICU patient rooms and three floors with 36 patient beds on each floor. Additionally, the project includes renovating the adjoining spaces on the main level with retail and staff space and upgrading existing OR’s on the second level with major modifications to the patient holding, sterile core, anesthesia care unit and surgical staff areas. The new construction space consists of approximately 154,000 square feet. The renovated areas will consist of approximately 64,000 square feet.

EDI is providing the following design and consulting services:

• Structured communications cabling including data, telephone, biomedical systems, and CATV design
• Nurse call system consulting
• Security system design
• Distributed antenna system consulting
  

Royal Jubilee Hospital
Victoria, British Columbia

400,000 Square Feet

Royal Jubilee Hospital is currently in the RFP phase for a Patient Care Centre to be built on the existing hospital campus. The new facility will have approximately 500 beds and will be 400,000 square feet in size. Other elements include LEED – Gold, 90% single patient rooms, Acuity adaptable, evidence based design and a Pebble project with Centre for Health Design.

EDI is providing the following design services:

• Structured cabling system for voice and data networks, TV
• Telephone systems (VoIP)
• Security systems
• LAN, WAN and Wireless LAN and infrastructures
• Audio-Visual systems
• Public address, intercom and overhead paging systems
• Nurse call/code blue systems
• Patient and equipment tracking, if any
• Television (CATV, SATV, CCTV, Video-on-demand)
• Distributed Antenna System

Valley Health War Memorial Hospital
Berkeley Springs, WV

90,000 Square Feet

Valley Health recently acquired the assets of War Memorial Hospital from Morgan County, WV to build a long awaited replacement hospital in Berkeley Springs, WV. The current building is outdated and the new updated facility will allow Valley Health to serve the needs of this community for years to come.

EDI is providing the following design services:

• Structured communications cabling including data, telephone, biomedical systems, CATV and necessary outside plant infrastructure on the site
• Nurse Call system cabling infrastructure
• New cable TV head end and televisions
• Security system cabling infrastructure
• 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN)
• Medical equipment cabling and coordination
• Bidding and construction services

Valley County Health System Replacement Hospital
Ord, NE

68,000 Square Feet

Valley County Health System (VCHS) is a critical access healthcare facility located in Ord, Nebraska, embarking on an exciting construction project of an approximately 68,000 square foot replacement facility. VCHS is using the design/build methodology for the project and has retained the services of TSP as design/builder.

The project is currently under construction and VCHS engaged the services of EDI for the purposes of guiding the hospital in the planning of critical low-voltage medical communications, security, and audio-visual systems. EDI is providing a comprehensive set of design and consulting services for the new building which include the following systems:

• Structured Cabling System
• Outside Plant Cabling Infrastructure
• Nurse Call System
• Security System
• Wireless Personal Communications System
• 802.11 Wireless System
• Audio-Visual Systems Programming
• Local Area Network System
• Telephone System
• Server Room Design
• Telecommunications Room Design
• Rack-Mounted UPS Validation

Saint Francis Medical Center
Grand Island, NE

350,000 Square Feet
215 Beds

Begun in 1887, St Francis Medical Center has grown from a small local hospital to a regional referral center in Central Nebraska. Owner Catholic Healthcare Initiatives constructed a new Acute Care Patient Tower consisting of approximately 350,000 square feet (of which 75,000 square feet is shelled) and a 10,000 square foot addition to the Central Energy Plant. Tower rooms have nearly double the space of the older rooms. This 9-story addition houses 6 new inpatient nursing units, a new surgery department, and an expanded ER.

Project Leads ACI Boland and the Hammes Company selected EDI, Ltd. to consult and design the technology infrastructure, the medical communications, and the security system for this massive addition.

EDI assisted the hospital with the design, procurement, and construction of the data/voice, CATV, LAN network, telephone, patient monitoring NC, security, wireless, telemetry and intercom systems. Technology upgrades for the addition included wireless access, voice over IP phones, and a new nurse call system.

All Children’s Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL

700,000 Square Feet
225 Beds

EDI began this replacement hospital project when All Children’s Hospital (ACH) hired our firm to help plan and vision the technology systems for the new facility. This visioning effort consisted of an assessment of the existing facility, visioning and concept meetings, basis of design documentation, and budgeting for the new facility. EDI was then hired to work with the hospital to provide technical engineering and design assistance.

Services EDI provided include:

• Design review
• Technology visioning revealing ACH’s technology design goals of: intelligent integration – pathways and connectivity, flexibility and sustainability, a capacity that will work in the future, completing on time and on budget, keeping patients in mind, and producing a leading healthcare facility for the area.
• Design, bid assistance, and construction review for the following systems:
  • Structured Cabling
  • Nurse call/code blue
  • Intercom
  • WAN network/hardware
  • LAN network/hardware
  • Wireless LAN
  • VoIP
  • Overhead paging
  • Security including access control, CCTV, and parking decks’ panic alert systems

St. Mary’s Hospital Century Project
Grand Junction, CO

New: 375,000 Square Feet
Remodel: 158,000 Square Feet

EDI is providing consulting and design for the IT, medical communications, and security systems as outlined below. We are also providing procurement and construction observation services as well as technology assessment and relocation management and planning for migration to the new spaces.

• Telecommunications cabling infrastructure, equipment and systems
• IT equipment and systems
• Nurse call
• VoIP
• Wireless internet access for patients and visitors
• Internet access, patient education, movies on demand via room TVs
• RFID patient and staff locator systems
• Video over IP for videoconferencing
• Nurse locating systems
• Analog and digital paging systems
• Interior cellular-based antenna systems
• Radio repeater systems
• Security and Access Control Systems
• Surveillance Camera Systems (Digital)
• Video Distribution System including “Patient Portal” individualized content distribution
• Building Automation Systems
• Digital Kiosks (information and way-finding)
• UPS and Grounding Systems
• Public space Video Information Displays
• Conference Room and Assembly Space Video Systems and Sound Reinforcement Systems
• PBX Telephone Head-end and User Equipment
• Local Area Network (LAN) Electronics (routers, switches, wireless antennas)
• Servers, Workstations, and Associated PC Equipment

Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

1,000,000 Square Feet
500 Beds

Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) was one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and one of the nation’s top-ranked nursing colleges. RUMC also has one of the top graduate programs in allied health, health systems management and biomedical research.

RUMC has begun to realize their vision for transforming patient experience in the hospital. Their new facility will feature the latest technology, sophisticated centers of specialty care, and one of the nation’s most advanced emergency rooms as well as a physical environment carefully designed to be both welcoming and patient and family-friendly. EDI is designing the technology infrastructure that will support RUMC’s mission.

Services include:

• Structured cabling system for all IP addressable systems
• CATV system cabling
• Nurse call/code blue
• Overhead paging
• Radio paging
• Emergency radio
• Security including: access control, CCTV, and emergency call
• Voice and data network wiring
• TV/media distribution
• LAN and TV fiber and copper riser and distribution systems
• Telephone system cabling and riser distribution
• All inter-building cabling
• Conduits, back boxes, cable trays

Sidra Medical and Research Hospital
Qatar Foundation
Doha, Qatar

2,000,000 Square Feet
500 Beds

EDI is developing standards for the technology systems being implemented and planning and designing the new 15,000 sq ft data center. EDI is providing consulting and design oversight for the IT, medical communications, and security systems as outlined below:

• Telecommunications cabling infrastructure, equipment and systems
• IT equipment and systems
• Nurse call
• VoIP
• Wireless internet access for patients and visitors
• Internet access, patient education, movies on demand via room TVs
• RFID patient and staff locator systems
• Digital OR’s
• Video over IP for videoconferencing
• Nurse locating systems
• Analog and digital paging systems
• Distributed antenna system
• Security and access control
• Surveillance camera systems (digital)
• Infant protection
• Building automation systems
• Digital kiosks (information and way-finding)
• UPS and grounding systems
• Public space video information displays
• Conference room and assembly space video systems and sound reinforcement Systems
• Local Area Network (LAN) electronics (routers, switches, wireless antennas)
• Servers, workstations, and associated PC equipment

University of Alabama - Birmingham
Women and Infants Center
Birmingham, AL

650,000 Square Feet
221 Beds

EDI is providing the technology master plan, medical communications and security systems consulting and design for this new, state-of-the-art university hospital. This includes systems design and coordination for the following:

• Structured cabling
  
• Access control
• Service duct banks/manholes
  
• Infant protection
• CATV distribution
  
• Audio-visual systems
• Overhead paging
  
• VoIP
• Nurse call/code blue
  
• Wired and wireless LAN
• Intercom
  
• PoE master clock

Capital Health System Replacement Hospital
Trenton, NJ

800,000 Square Feet
500 Beds

Capital Health System is planning an up to 500-bed replacement hospital in Trenton, New Jersey. This 800,000 sq ft hospital will be located on an approximately 80-acre Greenfield site.

EDI is designing the following systems for this new hospital:

• Structured cabling
  
• Infant protection
  
• CATV
• Video surveillance
  
• Overhead paging
  
• Nurse call / code blue
• Access control
• Outside plant infrastructure
  
• Personal communication devices

Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare
Elmhurst, IL

Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare is planning the development of a new replacement teaching hospital in Elmhurst, IL. The proposed hospital is currently programmed at approximately 866,000 square feet. This new project presents Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare with a great opportunity to improve and modernize their overall technology infrastructure and create a technology vision and platform for the future. EDI will be consulting and providing design services for the following systems:

• Structured cabling
• Nurse call
• Overhead paging
• CATV
• Audio-visual systems
• Distributed antennae system
• Patient hospitality entertainment/education
• Master clock

Parkview Regional Medical Center
Fort Wayne, IN

Parkview Health is planning to move their tertiary hospital services from downtown Fort Wayne, IN to a location on the north side of the city, known as the North Campus. The new facility will be called Parkview Regional Medical Center (PRMC).

EDI will provide the basic services described below for PRMC and the necessary site infrastructure design to provide telecommunications connectivity to and between PRMC and other structures on the existing North Campus site.

• Structured communications cabling including data, telephone, biomedical systems, CATV and necessary outside plant infrastructure on the site
• Server room design
• Nurse call
• New cable TV head end and televisions
• Overhead paging
• Security system design
• Audio-visual systems including informational displays, presentation systems, kiosks, patient hospitality/entertainment systems, patient observation video, surgical video and digital OR’s
• Local Area Network (LAN)
• 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN)
• Telephone system
• Wireless personal communications system

West Georgia Medical Center
LaGrange, GA

West Georgia Health System (WGHS) is expanding their hospital in LaGrange, GA to accommodate their community’s growth and current needs. Phase I of this expansion includes a 4-story, 120,000 square foot addition to the existing hospital. This addition will house an expanded emergency department, labor and delivery services, ICU, and cardiology services.

The project presented WGHS with a great opportunity to improve and modernize their overall technology infrastructure and create a technology vision for the future.

EDI provided technology visioning and consulting services for the entire campus and Phase I including:

• Assessment of the existing technology
• Facilitation of visioning/programming meetings
• Creation of a basis of design document
• Preparation of an opinion of probable cost

Albert Einstein New Regional Medical Center
East Norriton, PA

354,000 Square Feet
192 Beds

The project is planned for a site in East Norriton, Pa in Montgomery County. The NRMC project is a strategic element in AEHN’s planning for the future. A Medical Office Building (MOB) will also be designed and constructed simultaneously to the NRMC.

EDI is providing the following design services:

• Structured communications cabling including CATV and necessary outside plant infrastructure on the site.
• Server room design
• Security system design including infant protection
• Overhead paging
• Intercom system
• Nurse call system
• Distributed Antennae Systems (DAS)
• Audio Visual systems

Midland Memorial Hospital
Midland, TX

329,000 Square Feet
320 Beds (200 New Beds)

Midland County Hospital District, a political subdivision of the State of Texas, regularly does business in Midland County, Texas under an assumed name, Midland Memorial Hospital (MMH). MMH currently operates on two campuses known as the Main Campus and West Campus.

MMH plans to strategically expand and align the services on the Main Campus. The work on the Main Campus will include a new patient tower, both heavy and cosmetic remodeling of the existing hospital, and central plant renovations. Collectively this work is defined as the “Project” and includes a total of 329,000 square feet of programmed space.

EDI is providing the following design services:

• Structured communications cabling and necessary outside plant infrastructure on the site
• Data Center Design
• Security system design including infant protection
• CATV cabling
• Overhead paging
• Intercom system
• Nurse call system
• Distributed Antennae Systems (DAS)
• Audio-Visual systems
• Campus wide Network Design
• Campus wide Wireless LAN Design
• Campus wide telephony replacement - VoIP PBX Design

Comprehensive List of Healthcare Clients

• All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL
• Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, East Norriton, PA
• Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, GA
• Augusta Hospital, Augusta, GA
• Baptist Healthcare, Jacksonville, FL
• Baptist Hospital, Inc. Pensacola, FL
• Benefis Healthcare, Great Falls, MT
• Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, AL
• Boca Raton Community Hospital, Boca Raton, FL
• Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center, Mechanicsville, VA Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital, Richmond, VA
• Cancer treatment Center of America, Baltimore, MD
• Capital Health System, Trenton, NJ
• Central Health Services, Inc., Atlanta, GA
• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
• Egleston Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
• Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, TX
• Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, Louisville, KY
• Corvallis Clinic, Corvallis, OR
• DeKalb Medical Center, Atlanta, GA
• Denver Health, Denver, CO
• Department of Veteran’s Affairs, Miami, FL
• East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika, AL
• Eastern Carolina Cardiovascular Institute, Greenville, NC
• Elmhurst memorial Hospital, Elmhurst, IL
• Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, GA
• Emory Healthcare System, Peachtree City, GA
• Emory University Medical Center, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA
• Fauquier Hospital, Richmond, VA
• Florida Hospital Waterman, Tavares, FL
• FMCNA Perimeter Dialysis Center, Atlanta, GA
• Freeman West Hospital, joplin, MO
• Georgia Baptists College of Nursing, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA
• Georgia Regional Hospital, Decatur, GA
• Grady Health Systems, Atlanta, GA
• Harris Methodist Hospitals, Fort Worth, TX
• Henry County Hospital, Stockbridge, GA
• Houston Medical Center, Warner Robbins, GA
• Jackson Hospital, Montgomery, AL
• Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
• Lexington Medical Center, East Columbia, SC
• Louis Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk, VA
• Martha Jefferson hospital, Charlottesville, VA
• Matria Healthcare, Inc., Marietta, GA
• Medquest, Alpharetta, GA
• Medical College of georgia, Augusta, GA
• Midland Memorial Hospital, Midland, TX
• Nash Healthcare Systems, Rocky Mount, NC
• North Georgia Medical Center, Ellijay, GA
• Oconee Regional Medical Center, Milledgeville, GA
• Palmetto Health Baptist, Columbia, SC
• Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, IN
• Parrish Medical Center, Port St. John, FL
• Peacehealth, Eugene, OR
• Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA
• Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, GA
• Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO
• Portneuf Medical Center, Pocatello, ID
• Presbyterian hospital, Allen, Dallas, and Plano, TX
• Prince William Health System, Manassas, VA
• Promina Health System, Atlanta, GA
• Qatar Foundation – Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar
• Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News, VA
• Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, VA
• Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford, OR
• Royal Alexandria Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
• Royal Jubilee Hospital,, Victoria, BC, Canada
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
• Saint Catherine’s Hospital, Kenosha, WI
• Saint Francis Medical Center, Eugene, OR
• Saint Francis Medical Center, Grand Island, NE
• Saint Francis Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
• Saint John’s Hospital, Santa Monica, CA
• Saint Joseph’s/Candler Health System, Savannah, GA
• Saint Mary’s Hospital, Grand Junction, CO
• Saint Vincent Healthcare, Billings, MT
• Savannah Hospital, Savannah, GA
• Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, MD
• Sheltering Arms Rehabilitation, Mechanicsville, VA
• Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health, Lenexa, KS
• Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center, Brunswick, GA
• Sumter Regional Hospital, Sumter, GA
• Three Rivers Medical Center, Grants Pass, OR
• University of Alabama – Birmingham Health System, Birmingham, AL Underwood memorial Hospital, Woodbury, NJ
• Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, MD
• Vermont Department of Health, montpelier, VT
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
• Via Christi West Community Hospital, Wichita, KS
• Walton Rehabilitation Center, Augusta, GA
• West Georgia Health System, LaGrange, GA

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