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Air Conditioning For Hospitals

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Air conditioning in medical facilities, including hospitals, supports the medical function of the patients’ treatments, helping with their recovery, general health, comfort and safety. Air conditioning is more than just temperature cooling, it improves airflow, removes contaminants and helps with other critical conditioning of the air for sectors such as hospitals.

GalxC provides air conditioning units that will deliver what hospitals need to help control infection, remove noxious odours and dilute and expel contaminants to establish the special environmental conditions conducive to medical procedures and patient healing. This increases the likelihood of patients being discharged on time.

We know that hospitals are important users of air-conditioning systems, due to their size and the function they perform so our engineers will work with your estates department, your infection control department and your other key personnel to design the air conditioning system that will give you reliable and efficient conditioned air.

Patients and visitors are often stressed when entering hospitals but by making the visit comfortable for patients, visitors and staff everyone will feel less agitated, more relaxed and more responsive to communicate symptoms and concerns effectively whilst in the hospital.

Air conditioning is needed in hospitals for canteens, offices, IT/communications rooms, wards, mortuary rooms, to cool X-ray equipment, for operating theatres, for vaccine and tissue stores for cryogenic applications, for health centres and for nursing homes that are on or near sites. The demands for air conditioning are usually compounded by the hospitals’ high intensity lighting, equipment and the body heat of patients all of which produce heat, and make it harder to store hospital drugs, for example, which typically need be stored at a temperature below 23°C.

When upgrading or installing new air conditioning systems in hospitals, sensitive areas need to be considered. These include computer data centres, Radiology and MRI computer rooms, some laboratory areas, areas with sensitive electronic equipment or equipment generating heat such as offices with photocopiers and kitchen areas. However, rooms such as recovery rooms and wards need to provide temperatures that ensure the patient is neither too hot nor too cold when laying still and recovering.

The air conditioning used in hospitals needs to be routinely maintained and economically viable, for budget and energy efficiency reasons. It should be adaptable to encompass any modifications or expansions made to the fabric of the hospitals. This is increasingly common as hospitals have to address the demands of an aging population, new treatments and new equipment.

The addition or alteration of existing air conditioning systems requires detailed engineering guidance so that patients’ can still recover in air conditioned rooms whilst any upgrades are undertaken. GalxC will work with the relevant hospital staff to develop a phasing plan to enable this to occur.

Waiting rooms

Air conditioning can improve the patient’s well-being by reducing anxiety levels, through contributing to a calm, comfortable atmosphere in the hospital, for both patients and visitors.

Administration areas

Administration areas in hospitals are usually open planned designs located near waiting areas. They have a tendency to become overcrowded, which means that they quickly become hot. Air conditioning will make these spaces more comfortable for those working or waiting in administration areas in hospitals.

Pharmacies

It is recommended that most drugs are stored at a temperature below 23°C, which can become an issue for medical staff owing to the heat generated in hospitals. Air conditioning will help maintain the required storage temperatures and humidity levels for storage facilities in hospitals.

Doctor & Dental Surgeries

The high intensity lighting used in surgeries usually generates a considerable amount of heat. Air conditioning improves the comfort level of patients and staff, as well as providing the optimum working temperature for expensive equipment.

For more information about air conditioning solutions for hospitals to benefit patients, visitors, staff and equipment phone our team now - call 0845 094 2644