The Children's Hospital of Denver Deploys MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network at New Aurora Campus
Comprehensive Wireless Solution Delivers Facility-Wide Mobility and Connectivity to Enhance Patient Care
VIENNA, Va.—November 13, 2006—MobileAccess Networks, an enterprise wireless innovator, today announced that The Children’s Hospital, a leading pediatric healthcare network and home to an array of globally-recognized medical programs in Denver and throughout the Rocky Mountain Region, is installing the Universal Wireless Network throughout its new facility in Aurora, Colorado. With the MobileAccess wireless in-building solution, The Children’s Hospital is equipped with strong coverage that supports a full range of critical wireless services and applications––including cellular services from a variety of service providers, wireless email communication, two-way paging, and emergency radio––over a single, unified platform. The result will be seamless, facility-wide connectivity for patients, caregivers and administrators.
With 1,130 pediatric specialists and more than 3,000 employees providing pediatric care across a network with 11 care centers and more than 400 outreach clinics, The Children’s Hospital has been ranked one of the best children’s hospitals in America by U.S. News & World Report for more than a decade. As a part of their 2007 expansion plans for a new, state-of-the-art facility in Aurora, the hospital wanted to offer wireless technology that is cost-effective, future-proof and reliable in the sensitive hospital environment, ensuring the highest level of excellence in patient care.
Core to offering wireless was an infrastructure that enables The Children’s Hospital to roll out all of the wireless services, applications and devices currently used by physicians and staff, with the scalability necessary for meeting the hospital’s future wireless requirements. The Children’s Hospital chose the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network--a flexible, multi-service solution that supports current wireless needs and readily adapts to support future wireless service needs, without disruptions to existing services, re-wiring or costly upgrades. With MobileAccess, The Children’s Hospital is able to bring mobile computing capabilities to clinicians, specialists, researchers and employees, who can leverage wireless technology to optimize patient care. Caregivers can now review medical records on a wireless laptop or view real-time patient data on a PDA or Tablet PC, without interruptions, as they move throughout the new 10-story, 1.5 million-square-foot facility.
“As one of the leading children’s hospitals in the country, we are continually looking for ways to accelerate clinical and IT workflows and we firmly believe that wireless is critical to improving efficiency, productivity and care,” said Jim Turnbull, senior vice president and chief information officer, The Children’s Hospital. “As we prepare to move into our new 236-bed hospital, we want to ensure that physicians, staff, as well as patients and their families, are able to stay connected and have instantaneous access to information no matter where they are in the hospital. At the same time, we need to ensure that as an organization we are able to adapt to meet future operational requirements and challenges. The MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network helps us meet all of these needs with reliable, flexible support for the wireless technologies that are driving healthcare today.”
“Building on The Children’s Hospital’s tradition of delivering renowned pediatric care, the new Aurora campus is setting a new standard for healthcare facilities,” said Cathy Zatloukal, president and CEO of MobileAccess Networks. “The impact will be tremendous. The MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network creates a complete technological foundation for cutting-edge services, removing many traditional limitations on care-giving and leaving employees more productive and better able to meet the needs of patients.”
About MobileAccess Networks
MobileAccess Networks is an enterprise wireless innovator that provides a universal platform for connecting the people and applications that drive business. The MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network is the key to widespread wireless connectivity in hospitals, office buildings, public venues and other large-scale facilities. The company's intelligent, in-building infrastructure delivers business-quality performance, scalability, security and signal reliability to more than 1000 customers, including Fortune 1000 companies such as Lehman Brothers and Hearst Corporation, leading healthcare facilities such as Northwestern Memorial and Clarian Health, as well as many public sector customers such as Aladdin Resort and Casino, ALLTEL Stadium, American University, and the Oakland International Airport. For more information, visit www.mobileaccess.com.
About The Children’s Hospital
The Children’s Hospital is a private, not-for-profit pediatric health-care network in Denver. It has been ranked one of the best children’s hospitals in America by U.S. News & World Report for more than a decade. With 1,130 pediatric specialists and more than 2,300 full-time employees, Children's is at the forefront of research into childhood disease and receives more than $30 million each year from the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies. Children’s provides complete pediatric care at its main campus and through a network that includes five community-based after-hour care sites, eight specialty-care centers, and more than 400 outreach clinics held in three states each year.
