SecureNetMD gets data moving at Beebe Specialty Surgical Hospital
Beebe Healthcare’s $125 million Specialty Surgical Hospital off Warrington Road near Rehoboth Beach opened May 16.
SecureNetMD, a leader in secure digital HIPAA-compliant healthcare solutions and infrastructure design, is making sure data at the facility will literally move at the speed of light.
SecureNetMD, based in Lewes, is part of the ThinkSecureNet.com companies, it provided the installation of more than 45 miles of wiring for data, communications and other systems throughout the building to ensure continuous connectivity throughout the surgical hospital.
Beebe’s plan is to move lower-risk and elective bariatric, orthopedic and breast surgeries to the new site.
The 135,000-square-foot facility has four operating rooms, 18 patient bays and 24 private patient rooms built with a state-of-the-art wired and wireless data network between floors, rooms, elevators and even outside the building so information can flow smoothly everywhere on the property.
The operating rooms are wired with 72 strands of fiber-optic cable to allow fast, efficient data transfer, said Larry Poli, RCDD, vice president of infrastructure and sales design for SecureNetMD.
“It’s a pipeline able to handle a city’s worth of data, traveling at the speed of light,” he said. Fiber-optic cables use light to deliver information.
The cables can carry enough data that the doctor in the operating room can have a video consultation while at the same time passing real-time information from high-tech medical devices to a doctor in another building. It could be like having a second opinion in the room.
Staff and medical students will be able to watch procedures in the operating rooms on large monitors in and outside the room. Family members can watch screens throughout the facility to know where the patients are all during their procedures. More than 1,600 data points throughout the building include wall plates in rooms, ceiling devices that boost Wi-Fi and plug-in locations for computers. If there are any issues, SecureNetMD has set up a help desk dedicated to the surgery hospital.
SecureNetMD team members are proud they were able to meet all deadlines during the build to keep the project on track. Jack Berberian, CEO of SecureNetMD, thanks the Whiting Turner Contracting Company and Beebe Healthcare for their professionalism and work ethic throughout all phases of the project. “We are thankful that both organizations chose to work with a local company that provides jobs and revenue back into our local community,” he said.
All communication infrastructure is tested, certified and carries a lifetime warranty, said Poli. The communications infrastructure can last as long as the building does, he said. Construction on the building began in 2019.
To learn more, go to ThinkSecureNet.com.
