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Article: HOSPITAL PICKS A HIGH-TECH DISINFECTANT
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- Building Operating Management
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Trade Press Publishing Company Oct 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Oklahoma's Muskogee Community Hospital opened in March 2009 and has already achieved many firsts. It is the first health care facility to garner the EPA's "Designed to Earn the Energy Star" recognition. MCH is also the first hospital to use a closedloop ground source geothermal system that covers the facility's entire heating and cooling needs.
Adding to the list of innovations, MCH is the first hospital to use UVC technology throughout the facility as part of its infection control strategy.
The hospital is equipped with at least two and sometimes three layers of UVC protection - UVC Emitters are installed in the outside air intake, in the 77 individual air handling units that serve ...