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Retirement Community Installs Cameras to Monitor High-Traffic Areas

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Mobotix Corp., a provider of high-resolution, network-based security products, announced that National Lutheran Communities & Services (NLCS) has deployed 37 Mobotix cameras at the Village at Rockville in Maryland.

NLCS installed the cameras to monitor high-traffic areas including entrances, exits and hallways. Three cameras are configured for facial recognition to buzz in residents and visitors. Several D12 cameras deliver night/day functionality to allow the facility to monitor outdoor activity and use PTZ capability to see specific areas when needed.

Each camera incorporates a high-speed computer and internal flash memory card to enable all recording and storage to occur within the camera, reducing the need for a separate PC or DVR. The addition of MxControlCenter, a professional video management software package that connects cameras at any location with centralized or local user-based operation and evaluation.

Surveillance Secure served as the systems integrator on the project.

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KLMK Group Wins Md. Hospital Contracts

SILVER SPRING, Md. — KLMK Group Inc., a provider of healthcare planning and facility-related advisory services, was awarded the contract for program management of a bed tower expansion at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring and its new hospital to be built in Germantown, Md.

Holy Cross Hospital – Silver Spring is planning a six-story tower approximately 175,000 to 200,000 square feet, to be linked to the existing hospital structure. A four-level extension will be added to the existing parking garage accommodating approximately 300 cars.

Development and construction of a new 237,000-square-foot, full-service acute care hospital is also planned for Germantown. The new hospital will have all private rooms with 93 adult beds and an eight-bed special care nursery. There will also be five labor and delivery rooms, six operating rooms, a 12 bay emergency department, an eight-bed observation unit and all necessary ancillary diagnostic and treatment services and support services.

KLMK Group is working with Holy Cross and Trinity Health, the healthcare system that operates Holy Cross, since 2008 when the initial Certificates of Need were submitted, and final approval of the CONs was granted in January.

“KLMK provided excellent support throughout our approval process. I’m pleased to continue to work with them as we move toward construction,” said Annice Cody, vice president of strategic planning for Holy Cross.

The last time Maryland approved a CON for a new hospital was in 1981.

Work on both projects will begin immediately with completion of the new hospital in Germantown scheduled in early 2014 and completion of the expansion of the Holy Cross facility about a year later.

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Work Continues on Children’s Hospital

BALTIMORE — When work is finally completed on the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center at John Hopkins Children’s Hospital in Baltimore, the result will be a blend of technological advances and a family-friendly environment aimed at putting ailing children — and their parents — at ease.

The 12-story children’s tower is part of the $994 million, 1.6 million-square foot adult critical care and cardiovascular tower expansion scheduled to open 2012. The expansion project is a ten-year vision, and one of the largest construction projects of any hospital in the country.

The 56,000 square-foot tower will have two expansive medical/surgical patient floors each, divided by elevator banks, and two units with a minimum of 20 beds at each end, having a total of 205 private inpatient rooms. Infants will be cared for on the south end of the ninth floor while toddlers will be on the north side. On the floor above, school-age children will be cared for on the south side, while adolescents will be on the north side of the tenth floor. Nurses remain close to their patients in alcoves just outside the rooms.

The new building will have its own dedicated radiology suite adjoining pediatric operating rooms on the 4th floor, minimizing floor travel for patients and optimizing access to imaging for surgeons in the operating room and intensivists in the pediatric intensive care unit.

“Our proximity will change the patient and family experience and allow us to be more responsive,” says pediatric radiologist Jane Benson. “All of our equipment will be child-centered.”

Doctors’ will maintain patient charts on flat-screen monitors in patients’ rooms in the neonatal intensive care unit and PICU, keeping them in close proximity to families. Gases and electrical, medical and communication equipment are at the ready in the PICU via ceiling-mounted booms, while all other rooms house that equipment in the headwall. All rooms are private and spacious enough to accommodate medical equipment and changing levels of care, allowing children to remain in the same room throughout the stay. Scattered conference rooms provide for parent consultations and staff, resident and fellow education. Large, public waiting areas near the elevators provide additional respite for visiting families.

Pediatric patients will have a variety of retreats, including “Sara’s Garden,” a tranquil garden funded by the Wilhide family in memory of their daughter Sara who was born with a heart condition and was treated at the Hopkins Children’s Hospital before she died at age three; and an enclosed playroom on the building’s top two levels, dubbed “The Great Escape,” where children can leave worries behind and delight in a sunlit expanse of “nature” with a simulated beach and a garden alongside an actual playground.

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Baltimore Clinic Earns Platinum Certification

BALTIMORE — Featuring rain gardens, a heat recovery wheel, and natural lighting in 75 percent of its offices, the Highlandtown Healthy Living Center medical office building now also proudly displays a LEED Platinum placard.

The newly opened 32,000-square-foot clinic, part of the Baltimore Medical System, one of six such centers operated by BMS, offers patient care and education to approximately 22,000 people in around Highlandtown – an East Baltimore neighborhood.

“We are using the environmentally friendly and LEED-required elements of the Healthy Living Center to educate our patients about how they can improve their health through their physical space,” says Jay Wolvovsky, BMS President and CEO. “For example, we don’t hang curtains in the windows of the center in order to illustrate the importance of sunlight, and to remove a trigger for asthma that our patients might find in their homes."

Staffers at the new facility use environmentally safe cleaning products and are educated in the building’s sustainable features, so that they can easily discuss the benefits with patients and staff.

Onsite at the Healthy Living Center are bike racks, employee showers and changing areas. Much of the interior furniture is reclaimed or refurbished and most newly purchased furniture is made of recycled content. Additionally, the facility’s 51 exam rooms feature tables made of recycled steel. The wooden ceiling beams and trim that runs throughout the building was reclaimed from a local barn that was torn down. Low-VOC carpeting and small squares of recycled cork flooring, which reduces noise and can be replaced in pieces creating less landfill waste, make up the floors.

Approximately 88 percent of unused construction debris was recycled in building the center. A street level terraced healing garden and a front entrance rain garden both offer natural settings and rainwater filtering. Atop the building, a white membrane roof reduces heat island effect.

Energy-saving features includes lighting with motion detectors, a highly efficient HVAC system designed to reduce energy costs by $16,000 per year, and a heat recovery wheel that recycles the air and monitors interior and exterior temperatures to adjust accordingly.

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