Advanced Power System Supports More Technology At Point Of Care

This case study from Metro Healthcare focuses on Hamilton Medical Center and how as hospitals bring more technology to the point of care it becomes critical to ensure reliable performance and full-shift runtimes. Hamilton Medican Center is a 282-bed hospital in Dalton, Georgia that is moving its current conventional sealed lead acid (SLA) batteries to advanced lithium-iron nano-phosphate (Li-Nano).

Hamilton began using electronic medical records (EMRs) in 2004 with bar code medication administrations (BCMA). In 2010 they added clinical documentation to the medical carts, which caused the once-sufficient SLA batteries to cause problems and performance issues.

“Our nurses have everything they need on the cart, but it’s the bigger power draw that caused problems. Nurses sometimes had to change carts several times over the course of a shift to find one with power, or take carts into the patient room and plug in,” said Ferguson. “It was especially frustrating when a workstation would lose power during a procedure, which meant that all data was lost and the nurse would have to start over.”

Hamilton began looking for solutions to their problem and finally landed on the Metro® Flo™ Series workstations with upgraded power systems. The facility had usered carts from multiple vendors in the past, but Metro emerged as the preferred brand, according to Terri Brown, RN, Nursing Director of Medical Services.

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