Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Fletcher Allen Offers Free Wireless Network Access to Guests
F O R R E L E A S E: Immediate (March 2, 2009)
C O N T A C T:
Kim O’Leary
Marketing and Communications
802-847-2886
BURLINGTON VT – Fletcher Allen is pleased to announce that free wireless access to the internet is now available at most of the organization’s clinical locations. This system includes a Guest Wireless Network for patients and visitors.
“Providing wireless internet access at Fletcher Allen is in keeping with our commitment to provide high quality, compassionate care in service to the community,” said Frank Harris, vice president of Information Services. “Now our patients and their family members can enjoy free, convenient access to the internet via their laptops, cell phones, and personal digital assistants, whenever they visit a Fletcher Allen facility.”
The wireless technology being installed at Fletcher Allen will be able to access the network at nearly all inpatient and outpatient locations, including the medical center campus and University Health Center campus in Burlington, the Fanny Allen campus in Colchester, and all of Fletcher Allen’s primary care and family medicine sites. Users of the network must supply their own computing device with wireless access, and will be asked to follow a simple log-on process when they access the network at Fletcher Allen.
Fletcher Allen’s wireless network initiative was made possible at no extra cost as part of the hospital’s PRISM – Patient Record and Information Systems Management – electronic health record project, which requires wireless technology to operate mobile inpatient workstations using a secure Employee Wireless Network.
About Fletcher Allen
Fletcher Allen Health Care, together with our partners at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, is Vermont’s academic medical center. Our mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education and research in a caring environment. Fletcher Allen serves as a regional referral center -- providing advanced care to approximately one million people in Vermont and northern New York -- and as a community hospital for approximately 150,000 residents in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties. With more than 30 patient care sites and 100 outreach clinics, programs and services throughout the region, Fletcher Allen is committed to being a national model for the delivery of high-quality academic health care for a rural region. For more information about Fletcher Allen, visit our Web site at www.fletcherallen.org.
