Customized GreenTouchscreen® designed to Showcase Florida’s First LEED® Silver Certified Healthcare Facility

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"By constantly having their energy consumption displayed on the GreenTouchscreen®, our students are developing a new awareness of how their habits impact the environment. It also invokes a sense of energy competitiveness between the students that live there. Having the website available to the rest of the campus (and the world) sends a message of 'we care' in the sense of environmental stewardship." Mike Lubberden, Director, Construction and Energy Management Central College Pella, Iowa

Customized GreenTouchscreen® designed to Showcase Florida’s First LEED® Silver Certified Healthcare Facility

PORT ST. JOHN, FL—The 72,264-square-foot Parrish Healthcare Center at Port St. John, a service of Parrish Medical Center in Florida, was designed to highlight the belief that health and healing are best achieved when in balance with nature. Surrounded by a 33.5 acre campus, including a 6.1 –acre nature preserve, the Parrish Healthcare Center is the first in Florida to be awarded the prestigious LEED® Silver certification.

Among the criteria required for LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification is the demonstration of a commitment to educate the public about environmental sustainability. One-way the center has selected to demonstrate that commitment is through the GreenTouchscreen® kiosk designed by Quality Attributes Software.

This innovative and customized kiosk is located in the main lobby of the center. Visitors to Parrish Healthcare Center at Port St. John just need to touch the screen and it comes to life. From the kiosk visitors can learn about the LEED® Green Building Rating System and the credits that were earned in order to achieve Silver certification. A LEED® checklist which explains how each credit was earned along with a Green features map and a list of the benefits of building “green” can all be found with a simple touch of the screen. The GreenTouchscreen® is also available online at http://parrishmedical.greentouchscreen.com.

Without the GreenTouchscreen® many of the building’s “green features” might otherwise go unnoticed.

“The kiosk is a great way for Parrish Healthcare Center to inform the public about how environmental sustainability is integrated into the healing environment,” said Chris Fox, Parrish Healthcare Center at PSJ Director. “PMC has long advocated that environments play an integral role in healing. Building green is just a natural extension of that belief.”

Parrish Healthcare Center at Port St. John is a full-service outpatient center that has earned more procedure-specific accreditations by the American College of Radiology (ACR) than any other Brevard County outpatient center in the areas of Mammography, Breast Ultrasound, Ultrasound, Computed Tomography (CT), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In addition to radiology services, the center includes physician offices, a sleep disorders center, outpatient rehabilitation, laboratory services, and an array of other testing such as bone density, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), EMG/EKG, stress testing, echo-vascular testing, and Holter Monitoring.

GreenTouchscreen® is a product of Quality Attributes Software, located in the heart of the Silicon Prairie in Ames, Iowa. For more information, please visit our website at: www.qualityattributes.com.

"Thank you so much for all of your help in breaking ground for new green building technologies and making available the data that demonstrates the benefits." Dr. Kirstin Dow, Associate Professor, Learning Center for Sustainable Futures University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina

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