VRFZ System Meets Hospice's Need for Simultaneous Cooling, Heating - Also provides individual-room temperature control

摘要

Owned and operated by Share (Foundation, a not-for-profit public charity, Life Touch Hospice in El Dorado, Ark., opened its 16-bed John R. Williamson Hospice House in March 2007. For Life Touch Hospice Executive Director Linda Swart, now retired, it was the culmination of a dream. "For as long as I can remember, Linda dreamed of building a first-class, state-of-the-art facility to provide the highest level of care for terminally ill patients in a home-like setting," Brent McDiar-mid, vice president of HVAC contractor Glenn Mechanical Inc., said. Swart had visited 29 hospice facilities in 11 states to develop a checklist of what she wanted for her own facility. Her list included simultaneous cooling and heating, a central HVAC control system, individual room controls, indoor-air quality, and ventilation in each patient suite. By fall 2005, she had the funds needed to begin construction.