Chloride North America protects Grand River Hospital and Medical Center Rifle, Colorado, USA
Grand River Hospital and Medical Center is the main campus of Grand River Hospital District, a network of clinics and health providers that serve more than 27,000 people throughout Western Colorado. The 62,730 square foot campus houses emergency suites, operating rooms, a dietary clinic,medical labs, radiology department, and MRI stations. Originally built in 2001, the campus recently added a state-of-the-art data center to support its increasingly networked infrastructure. However, because the hospital is located in a rural area, assuring the delivery of constant uninterrupted power would be a critical challenge. To meet this need, Grand River turned to Chloride three-phase UPS technology.
Superior Price-to-Performance
During meetings with the general contractor, FCI Constructors, Grand River IT director DianaMurray expressed her preference for another brand of back-up power equipment.
“The contractor came back and said the other product was too expensive but asked that I review Chloride as an alternative,” explained Murray. “FCI guaranteed me that the Chloride system would meet my business objectives and network infrastructure.”
Murray knew there was a great deal at stake: In addition to protecting power to the new data center, the UPS would need to safeguard the network infrastructure, Health Information Systems, PACS, BedsideMonitoring System, ElectronicMedical Records, Dictation System, Payroll System and Interface System.
“If Grand River didn't have quality back-up power protection in place we could potentially lose data, or the data could become corrupt due to the servers powering off unexpectedly. It would be devastating to lose a patient’s Electronic Medical Record due to file corruption and it would be incredibly difficult to re-create it,” warned Murray.
Chloride Three-Phase Protection
After careful consideration and testing, Murray instructed FCI to deploy Chloride 90-NET three-phase UPS systems as critical back-up power to all servers housed in the data center. 90-NET was pre- configured with its own redundancy to account for the hospital’s rural location. But Chloride’s partnership with Grand River didn’t end with the installation — it was just the beginning. The 90-NET’s advanced diagnostics and Chloride’s technical staff gives Grand River ongoing support 24/7/365, resulting in true peace-of-mind.
Murray explains: “I appreciate the confidence of having an engineer come on-site annually to evaluate the system’s performance, determine if it requires maintenance, or if a battery needs replacement. The engineer provides a comprehensive report that I can file with my HIPAA Security and Disaster Recovery documentation.”
Since installation in fall of 2008 Grand River has yet to experience a power-related problem, Murray reports: “We are very fortunate to have purchased the Chloride system for our data center.”
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