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California health facilities evaluate power options amid outages
Planned and unplanned power outages to mitigate fires becomes a challenge for many facilities
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Infrastructure
Resilience for health care technology
Operating definitions for "resilience" focus on the ability to withstand and recover
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Infrastructure
Powering up to meet today's health technology demands
The digitization of health care and advanced medical equipment place greater demand on electrical systems
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Emergency management
Program connects hospitals and utilities to prevent outages
Powered for Patients is launching a prototype dashboard to help protect emergency power in health care facilities
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Advocacy Adviser
New initiatives address conflicts for power taps
ASHE helps to decipher and clarify two UL standards causing confusion in health care facilities
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Engineering
Health system makes renewable electricity pledge
Advocate Aurora Health's 2030 goal will touch its 27 hospitals and more than 500 outpatient facilities
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Infrastructure
Normal power system functional-performance testing
Four preventive maintenance procedures to ensure a well-functioning system
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Infrastructure
Time for a power system reliability check
Emergency equipment receives much attention, but normal power infrastructure requires scrutiny, too
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Infrastructure
Foundational principles for energy planning
Applying the three A's to energy planning: Alignment, analytics and aggregation
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Infrastructure
Planning for energy resiliency
A business approach to support long-term resiliency and sustainability of health care campuses
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