Healthcare Solutions
Clinics - Hospitals

The Healthcare industry faces wireless coverage and capacity challenges in hospitals, clinics and other healthcare campuses.  The case study below features one of ADC’s products in its portfolio of solutions. 

Doctors and staff are frustrated with poor wireless communications in and around their healthcare facilities. Clear and always available communications between doctors, maintenance staff, patients’ families, and other emergency medical personnel are critical for quality care of patients.  While the hospital complex itself may be designed with patient safety in mind, a concrete structure with towers between each wing for easy defense against fire often proves difficult for wireless communications.  Doctors often lose calls as they walk through doors in the hospital complex.

Throughout its million square-foot campus, Cedars-Sinai relies heavily on fast and reliable communications. From the maintenance and housekeeping staffs to doctors and nurses in patient care units, everyone employed on the campus must be constantly available. Prior to the year 2000, Cedars-Sinai relied on a combination of overhead paging, beepers and two-way radios to connect with its physicians and staff, as was the case with most hospitals at the time. But in its continuing effort to provide the best care, Cedars-Sinai was an early adopter of wireless infrastructure as a means of speeding communications. It wanted to have complete mobile coverage for everyone throughout the facility, not just in certain areas. And it didn’t want to worry about mobile traffic interfering with medical telemetry equipment. Cedars-Sinai wanted modern technology that gave users a wide choice of phones and service plans. 

Today this highly-regarded medical center has a comprehensive, reliable, and high-performance wireless voice and data communications system through which to continue its pursuit of healthcare excellence. The InterReach in-building DAS system is the best choice for healthcare facilities because it can satisfy the highly variable needs of physicians, staff, and visitors in the most complex of facilities.  Utilizing a structured cable system to deliver RF to discrete locations means users have coverage and capacity exactly where they need it, when they need it.  This structured cable backbone is also there to support additional services as users continue to migrate toward next-generation mobile applications.  There is no need to repeatedly disrupt the facility.  DAS systems are also best equipped to expand as the venue grows. 

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