Speaker: Tony Armelin, Manager of Healthcare Facilities and Engineering
Introduce yourself! What is your name? What is your position? What hospital do you work at? Where is it located?
Tony Armelin: My name is Tony Armelin I'm the facilities manager at Johnson Memorial Hospital. We're a 90 bed community hospital in Connecticut.
How much time does your team spend testing emergency lights every month? How did you keep records for TJC?
Tony Armelin: My team was averaging eight hours a month, testing emergency and exit lights. We were logging them on paper logs so handwritten individual check marks per light and counting on them, initialing all those sheets, which certainly consistency was key.
How easy was setting up Hexmodal's system? Did you have to involve IT?
Tony Armelin: The hex modal system was certainly the, the easiest technical system that I purchased in the past 10 years. No, IT involvement No, IT involvement no firewalls, no credentialing. We're able to just purchase the unit follow their simple instructions and everything really works for itself, especially once the system is established, expanding, adding lights and other items that they have on the market has just really been self explanatory and easy.
What does testing your emergency lights look like now? What does your team do with the extra time?
Tony Armelin: All the emergency light testing now kind of runs parallel to our operation. And it does itself, we get a monthly report that the Joint Commission is very happy because it does all the work for us and it's always there. It's easy for the people that put our regulatory paperwork together to pull it off of the Hexmodal site and print it at will. And we can validate on a monthly basis, all the deficiencies because they come to us automatically. And so all that extra time, which extra time doesn't exist in this business is used maintaining our our buildings, you know, labor is at an all time low and production is at an all time high. So it's it's really nice to have those extra hours back in our Q. So we can do what what's really um useful for our licensed labor to keep the hospitals running.
