Raso Education Center and Clarke Auditorium Ready to Make Mark on Healthcare Education

Jupiter Medical Center recently hosted a private ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of the Raso Education Center and Clarke Auditorium, the initial phase of the medical center’s $50 million, three-phase expansion. The two story facility is designed as an educational resource for Jupiter Medical Center’s team members, physicians, other area clinicians and researchers, and the community.

 

Participating in the ribbon cutting was Mrs. Shirley C. Raso, who, with her late husband Dominick F. Raso, provided the lead donation for the new education center. Also honored was Mrs. Margaret Clarke, lead donor for the auditorium with her late husband, John H. Clarke. President and CEO of Jupiter Medical Center, John Couris spoke, as well as the President and CEO of the Jupiter Medical Center Foundation, Richard Cosnotti.

 

The newly constructed Raso building at Jupiter Medical Center features some of the most leading-edge technology available today.

 

The John H. & Margaret Clarke Auditorium offers a place to host physician lectures from top academic medical centers. This room offers video presentation capability with projection screens located on the east and south walls to provide easy viewing from any location in the room. Seating up to 150, this auditorium’s state-of-the-art technology includes a sound system with overhead speakers and wireless microphones. The PC located in the podium has additional ports to allow for the Pathology camera, Radiology PACs and Laptop and USB inputs for presenters at weekly cancer conferences and pre-treatment breast conferences. The room is able to receive and send television video conferencing using a LifeSize© video conferencing system and two high-definition pan-tilt-zoom cameras.

 

In the near future, the building will have the ability to view live surgeries from one of the operating rooms in the main hospital, which will allow for a group of physicians to watch it in the Raso Education Center.

 

The Lawrence J. & Florence A. De George Board Room has video presentation capability showing on a projection screen located on the south wall. The PC located in the lectern has a 15 inch interactive display and added ports to allow the Pathology camera, Radiology PACs display as well as Laptop and multiple USB inputs for presenters. This room has overhead speakers and wireless microphones. In addition, this room is able to receive and send television video conferencing using a LifeSize© video conferencing system and two high-definition pan-tilt-zoom cameras.

 

The Innovation Room is modular in design to offer unlimited room configurations. A 174-inch-wide intuitive, multi-touch and gesture-driven SMART board system digitally captures new process ideas. A social media-ready and interactive, video-enabled Apple-Television system offers virtual research and conferencing with medical experts worldwide. Two iPad© ports will allow improvement concepts discovered outside the room to be brought in and shared instantly, capturing ideas found during daily work and sending them to the Innovation Room’s network.

 

The Kathryn W. Davis Computer Training Lab has sixteen PCs for team member training on Jupiter Medical Center applications.

 

The Internet Cafe has three iMac workstations along the north glass wall, an iPad docking location and a large flat panel LCD monitor for display of content as well as CATV.

 

Room Management System Software allows the meeting room coordinators easy access to automate the rooms and provide enhanced meeting room coordination along with scheduling. The software integrates with Microsoft Outlook on all desktops and allow users to request meeting rooms and pair the requestor with the appropriate room based on their technology requirements. The system enables pre-programming of the computers, projection screens and lights to be turned on prior to the coordinator arriving for the meeting. Occupancy sensors detect movement in the rooms. If a meeting has been canceled but not deleted from the system, the sensors will turn off lights and equipment if no movement is detected within fifteen minutes from the start time.

 

Outside each meeting room is a 9 inch display showing meeting room information that is used to view upcoming meetings and allow users to request available meeting room space. The center also has a portable Wolfvision document camera for clinical presentations.