Daikin Rebel HVAC System Allows St. Mary-Corwin to Convert 120 Beds to Long-term COVID-19 Recovery Care in Record Time

St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center serves as an alternative care facility for COVID-19 patients.CASE STUDY: HealthcareCHALLENGE:SOLUTION:Daikin Rebel HVAC System Allows St. Mary-Corwin to Convert 120 Beds to Long-term COVID-19 Recovery Care in Record TimeAs concrete data about the COVID-19 virus continues to evolve, health care administration and staff are forced to plan for a variety of contingencies—and very quickly. The disease is both highly contagious and deadly.Despite attempts through travel, business, and social restrictions to “flatten the curve,” officials in Colorado knew they would need additional capacity, exclusive to COVID-19 care. Accordingly, the state of Colorado, working with the Colorado Hospital Association and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, developed a plan to repurpose several health care facilities. These care sites would be designed to provide post-COVID-19, non-critical, isolated care, in order to free up intensive care isolation units in other facilities. Once the facilities and target spaces were chosen, the challenge was to find an HVAC supplier that could deliver the best system solution quickly, and the right engineering and contracting/mechanical firms to get it installed and commissioned.