Roper St. Francis Healthcare (RSFH) has started construction on a new data center in North Charleston. Healthcare executives, project leaders and officials of North Charleston attended the groundbreaking event that was held on the not-for-profit healthcare system’s 24-ac site at Palmetto Commerce Park close to Ashley Phosphate Road.
Roper St. Francis Data Center
John Holloway, project chairman for the Medical Society of South Carolina, said that the new RSFH Data Center will work as a shelter for the consolidation of roughly 40 t of equipment that will offer electronic communications to over 100 RSFH facilities all through a nine-county area.
The data center, with cement, tilt-wall construction design, will span roughly 16,000 sq.ft. The facility will also have a mechanical yard. Once the facility gets completed, RSFH will use the center to support its future growth pertaining to technological needs.
The center has been modeled to withstand against a Category 5 hurricane as well as an above-code seismic event. Mike Taylor, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of RSFH, said that this new design will minimize the risk of calamitous facility failure.
Clayco is the design-build contractor for the development and 24 different companies from Charleston area and from other areas throughout South Carolina and North Carolina are providing subcontracting services. Stantec Consulting Services’ North Charleston office is providing Program Management.
David Dunlap, Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s President and CEO, stated that since electronic medical records are being fully incorporated at the healthcare system’s facilities as well as doctor’s offices, this new data center will increase the capacity of communication systems that will in turn advance to greater efficiency.
The RSFH Data Center is scheduled to be opened in the early summer of 2013 and will employ 10 to 15 workers.
Source: http://www.rsfh.com/