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Novel approaches to treatment and its culture of innovation has won University of Chicago Hospitals recognition as one of the top 15 best hospitals in the United States by U.S. News and World Report in its annual survey of America’s 6,000+ hospitals. It was ranked in the top 10 in areas of cancer treatment, endocrinology and gastroenterology.
The hospital complex on the university campus includes the Bernard Mitchell Hospital, the primary adult patient-care facility; the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, a newly opened outpatient care facility; and the University of Chicago Children’s Hospital.
The Challenge
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The medical complex is comprised of four million square feet with long distances between laboratories and patient care units. Bridging that distance has required that the hospital complex turn to an automated solution for moving a variety of light materials. |
The Solution
The hospital turned to Swisslog to develop a six-inch TransLogic pneumatic tube system for the University of Chicago medical complex. First installed 20 years ago, the hospital system has expanded dramatically with upgrades and continual facility growth. The Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine is the latest building to be linked to the TransLogic pneumatic tube system.
The hospital’s healthcare professionals rely heavily on the tube system to transport laboratory specimens, pharmaceuticals, blood, blood gases and numerous other patient care items. The laboratories, the heaviest users, alone perform 4.6 million tests per year with an average of 3,700 specimens sent through the pneumatic tube system every day.
The Results
Dramatic Cost Savings
The University of Chicago Hospitals recently estimated that the pneumatic tube system handles an average of 4,260 transactions a day for a 559-bed facility. This translates to a cost savings of $2,500,000 per year, based on the savings that automated transport provides by avoiding manual transport costs.
Reliability is Essential
Connectivity between campus buildings is a major benefit of the tube system. It crosses city blocks between multi-story buildings faster than a human can walk. Distance is time, and it is very important for us to have an efficient, dependable way to move specimens between various points,” says Robert A. Bjorvik, Administrator of Hospital Laboratories.
Reliability is essential for a system when lives depend on the outcome of lab tests or the speedy delivery of blood to an operating room. In this business, you have to have the best, most reliable equipment,” adds Ray Cullen, Operations Manager for University of Chicago Hospitals. Without this system operating reliably 24-hours a day, seven days a week, it is worthless to me. This system works.”
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