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1. 1. Hospitable Climate

   www.bdcmag.com/magazine/articl - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/12/2003   Last Visited: 5/12/2003

   Throwing further weight to the patient side of the supply-and-demand scales are recent recommendations stemming from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountablity Act (HIPAA) that push for more patient privacy, notes Charles Geiger, P.E., director of healthcare for Arnold & O'Sheridan, Madison, Wis. "This has resulted in the need for larger patient rooms, where the patient and family members can discuss options with the physician with a greater degree of confidentiality," he says.

2. 2. Consulting-Specifying Engineer

   www.csemag.com/index.asp?layou - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/13/2002   Last Visited: 12/13/2002

   In fact, hospital owners are requesting that more of their facility's functions be placed on backup power-even non-critical ones such as medical offices and food service, says Chuck Geiger, P.E. a vice president and health care market sector leader for Arnold & O'Sheridan's Brookfield, Wis. office.
   
   The motivation is twofold. During emergencies, hospitals want to be able to serve as centers of refuge. And on a more practical level, procedures such as CAT scans and MRIs are so heavily booked that operators would prefer not to have to reschedule in the event of a power outage.
   
   This, of course, has meant an increase in redundancy and on-site power, as well as growing interest in cogeneration, and the practice of selling power back to the utility. Some hospitals, Geiger notes, are also requesting that engineers design features into their standby power system to qualify for utility programs that provide incentives for reducing power bills.
   
   Because hospitals are such energy-intensive facilities-consuming twice as much energy per sq. ft. as an average office building-any energy-saving proposals are largely embraced.

3. 3. Hospitable Climate

   www.csemag.com/magazine/articl - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/25/2003   Last Visited: 4/25/2003

   Throwing further weight to the patient side of the supply-and-demand scales are recent recommendations stemming from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountablity Act (HIPAA) that push for more patient privacy, notes Charles Geiger, P.E., director of healthcare for Arnold & O'Sheridan, Madison, Wis. "This has resulted in the need for larger patient rooms, where the patient and family members can discuss options with the physician with a greater degree of confidentiality," he says.