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Blessing Hospital: Install
Blessing Hospital: Install
Blessing Hospital: Install
2018
INSTALL
OF THE YEAR
BLESSING HOSPITAL
OMNISTREAM NETWORKED AV PLATFORM
STIMULATES SIMULATED HEALTHCARE LEARNING
C r i t i c a l n u r s i n g a n d h e a l t h s c i e n c e p ro g r a m s a t B l e s s i n g-R i e m a n C o l l e g e b e n e f i t f ro m
A t l o n a’s O m n i S t re a m™ AV o v e r I P p l a t f o r m t o e l i m i n a t e o l d e r, m a xe d-o u t a n a l o g
s y s t e m s w h i l e p ro v i d i n g f a s t s w i t c h i n g s p e e d a n d e n s u r i n g f u t u re AV s y s t e m s g ro w t h.
IP Video
Distribution:
Moving from
Switcher to Switch
The Simulation Center at
Blessing-Rieman is a complete
hospital unit with nine patient rooms
and five control stations, and is
where students are offered
specialized instruction and a
sophisticated learning environment
to master clinical skills. This
includes working with male, female
and pediatric manikins programmed
to mimic medical complications.
Even though the new site
wasn’t quite a brand-new building,
B
lessing Health System is a visible part of the the Southwest AV team was
fabric in the small Midwestern city of Quincy, handed a clean slate to do their integration work.
Illinois. In addition to the 307-bed Blessing “Since we were moving to an existing structure,
Hospital and the charitable, community-focused support the construction team hired by the college handled the
system that comprises the Blessing Foundation, the complete teardown of existing infrastructure, leaving little
growing healthcare organization offers a range of behind but walls and the electrical systems,” said Dustin
educational programs and training services at its own Willis, project manager at Southwest AV. “We came into
private college. a clean facility with a fresh set of system design plans.
Situated close to Blessing Hospital, the The main job was to merge audio systems from the
Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing & Health Sciences previous location with a networked architecture for video,
has been offering these programs and services for more driven by Atlona’s OmniStream™ AV over IP platform.”
than 125 years. To accommodate its own growth, the The college opted for an isolated network to
college recently relocated to a building on 50th and Oak support AV systems, chiefly to work around privacy laws
in Quincy. and other restrictions associated with Blessing Hospital’s
As often happens in these situations, the main network.
organization wanted to salvage some of its existing AV “We established a multicast-capable network
equipment, and integrate those components alongside leveraging off-the-shelf Cisco SG300-52MP managed
new technologies that would better complement today’s switches to ensure that OmniStream could live and
more digitally-focused learning environments. Southwest operate on the IT infrastructure, alongside internet and
Audio-Visual, a Missouri-based systems design and other data traffic,” said Willis.
integration firm that also specializes in AV equipment The primary driver that took Southwest AV down
sales, was hired to achieve this delicate balance in the the IP path started with, perhaps unusually, the switcher
new facility’s educational crown jewel: The Simulation frame size. The previous analog AV infrastructure was
Center. limited to a 32x32 chassis that was long maxed out, and
most digital fixed-frame systems offer
the same capacity. It was clear that
“THE PRIMARY DRIVER THAT TOOK SOUTHWEST AV DOWN THE the new facility would be limited by a
IP PATH STARTED WITH, PERHAPS UNUSUALLY, THE SWITCHER 32x32 infrastructure, as the college
intends to add more rooms within the
FRAME SIZE... THE NEXT NATURAL OPTION WAS AN UPGRADE TO Simulation Center in the coming years.
A 64X64 FIXED-FRAME SYSTEM. WHILE THESE WERE READILY The next natural option was
an upgrade to a 64x64 fixed-frame
AVAILABLE, BUDGET CONSTRAINTS REMOVED THIS OPTION FROM system. While these were readily
THE TABLE. ” available, budget constraints removed
this option from the table.
– Dustin Willis, project manager at Southwest AV
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