Hockey Arena Morphs Into Pandemic Field Hospital

When hockey lies at the heart of your Canadian community, turning the ice rink that hosts your team into an emergency field hospital becomes a meaningful way to serve your constituents. That vision setGrey Bruce Health Services在一条途径，将其当地3000座位竞技场转变为75床的非传统医院，具有最新的医疗和技术进步，用于解决Covid-19及以后的需求。

建立按需医疗保健能力

Located in the popular holiday destination of Owen Sound, Ontario, Grey Bruce serves a permanent population of approximately 165,000 people across northern Grey and Bruce counties and around 2 million short-stay visitors annually. During average years, this results in about 400,000 hospital visits annually.

与2020年成为平均,officials in Ontario’s provincial government considered how the pandemic was overwhelming existing healthcare resources in jurisdictions worldwide and what actions could be taken. This led to proactively addressing preparedness by asking certain health systems to establish a regional field hospital for added on-demand capacity.

“As a six-hospital health system and the largest in our area, we were selected as one those locations,” explains Rob Lee, Vice President of Information Management and Technology, CIO and Chief Privacy Officer for Grey Bruce Health Services.

Due to the rapidly evolving situation, the institution was tasked with standing up a field hospital in two weeks. “Network connectivity was a critical element for extending our existing hospital resources to the emergency facility,” Lee says. “This included access to our electronic health record (EHR) system, diagnostics equipment, laboratory gear, bedside systems, and so on. Providing staff with these familiar medical systems in the field environment was key to supplying quality patient care.”

For its size and WAN connectivity presence, the Harry Lumley Bayshore Centre’s arena, home ice of theOwen Sound Attack,被选为现场位置。“随着设计阶段开始，我们的阿鲁巴代表联系我们分享，该公司正在支持像我们这样的医疗组织，以高性能，交钥匙无线和有线解决方案，”Lee说。该解决方案包括APS，交换机，以及对基于云管理的Aruba Central的免费六个月订阅。

According to Lee, the deployment support his IT staff received was at least as important as the equipment itself. “The APs and switches arrived pre-configured, drastically simplifying our deployment,” he says. “When we did have questions, the telephone support team quickly provided answers.”

总的来说，它花了不到三天的设计和部署网络。由于竞技场距离灰色的Bruce Health Services数据中心短暂的驾驶，因此实施的缓解和效率适用于按时完成现场医院。

推进患者结果和运营效率

Because the human elements of care are equally vital to enabling positive outcomes, from the start the Grey Bruce Health Services team factored in patient experiences. “We considered how we’d overcome the inherent social isolation required for combating COVID-19 and other crises,” Lee says.

无论是医院提供的移动设备或个人带来自己，灰色的Bruce Health Service都希望让患者在保持内部网络安全的同时对其亲人进行访问。“现在，由于我们的现场医院的创新Wi-Fi基础设施，我们拥有客户网络能力，使我们能够做到这一点，”李说。

Operationally, another benefit of its new wireless solution is the inclusion of User Experience Insight sensors. Beyond remotely optimizing and troubleshooting connectivity and critical application assurance from the user and device perspective at the field hospital, the institution is considering how the sensors can assist with managing Wi-Fi experiences overall.

“In an effort to improve IT efficiency, we’ve elected to install the sensors at each of our hospitals,” Lee says. “With resources already strained during a pandemic, the sensors can help us meet the many demands while minimizing the number of drives to our various hospital locations.”

Preparing for future contingencies

向前发展，机构新田间医院的长期价值是其可重用性。“我们设计了拆卸，存储和重新组装的设施，以应对医疗保健系统紧急情况，例如这种大流行，”李说。“阿鲁巴的灵活网络解决方案是该模型成功的重要元素。”

总体而言，Gray Bruce Health Services赞赏帮助使野外医院发生的技术和运营合作伙伴。“鉴于医疗保健系统的高期望在任何危机中迅速做出反应，我们感谢Aruba在我们对目前大流行的反应过程中的主动外向和支持，”李说。

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