Pepin Heart Hospital Tampa, Florida
Situation
When Pepin Heart Hospital designed a new building, its management specified a multi-use presentation facility that could host meetings of many types, and serve as a hospital-wide training center.
They also needed a new boardroom with sophisticated video and audio capabilities and simple, touch-panel controls. The presentation room had to be divisible to provide several venues simultaneously, when required, including public gatherings.
Solution
Professional Communications Systems (PCS) was appointed to design, integrate and supervise A/V construction. The 40’ by 80’ scientific lecture/presentation area was built to transform into three rooms, including a simulated operating room for “live” training demonstrations.
Features of this area include close-up video from operating rooms and other networked sources, wireless microphones, a recessed DLP projector, a 13’ 16:9 ceiling-mounted screen, and computer controlled content, lighting and audio selection. Portable AMX touch panel units control functions from anywhere in the room or from the ADA-compliant multimedia podium. The boardroom has a 61”plasma screen receiving images from a DVD/VCR unit and the network, using an AMX touch panel.
Results
The system installed by PCS serves both the public and private objectives of the hospital with top-level IP technological capabilities.
Today, doctors, faculty, interns and students can view operations in progress in high-resolution video. And the system is designed for easy upgradeability to high definition video and videoconferencing, when future needs or opportunities arise.
Equipment Highlights
- AMX Touch-Screen Control Panels
- Draper Envoy Screen
- Extron Switcher
- Panasonic PTL 5500 DLP Projector
- AMX Wall-Mounted Control Panels
- Electro-Voice Ceiling Speakers
- NEC XM3 Plasma Screen
- Panasonic Plasma Screen