East Prince Healthcare Facility

Location: Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Year of Completion: 2003

Value of Electrical: $5,500,000

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Project Summary: The East Prince Health Care Facility is a 180,000 square foot, 108 bed health care facility currently under construction in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. When completed, the facility will replace the existing Prince County Hospital and will offer the public a much larger, modern health care facility. In designing this facility, planners and designers were tasked to create a facility that was cost efficient, technologically current, energy efficient, while emphasizing the physical, emotional, spiritual and environmental aspect of health.

Richardson Associates (1993) limited, together with Mulvey & Banani International Inc., provided the full electrical design services for this facility. The mandate of design was to provide an energy efficient, user friendly and maintenance friendly electrical system.

The building's lighting system was designed in strict compliance with the Illuminating Engineering Society's guidelines for Health Care Facilities utilizing computer based lighting design programs. The net result is a lighting system that utilizes a combination of leading edge T-5 fluorescent lamp technology, as well as the current industry standard of T-8 fluorescent and electronic ballasts.

The building's video surveillance system also incorporates the leading edge digital video technology and digital storage technology thus eliminating the conventional tape storage systems.

With respect to data systems, the local area data network (LAN) system features the latest Category 6 and fibre optic data networking technology. The system was designed to allow for the ultimate health care goal of complete data network services to the bedside to help physicians and health care givers alike to provide the best and most complete health care available.

In addition to the above, other technologies and/or electrical design features incorporated into this facility include:

	Computer based nurse call system.
	Patient wandering system.
	Patient television entertainment system complete with "in-house" local broadcast capabilities to allow the delivery of health care specific programs such as educational programs for new parents, cancer patients, physiotherapy treatments, etc.
	Microprocessor based fire alarm and protection system.
	Computerized card access and door security systems.
	750 kW standby diesel power generation, complete with dual automatic transfer system.

It is anticipated that the new GOCB building will require and would benefit from many of the design features that have been incorporated into the new East Prince Health Care Facility.