The management of Zurich Hospital and its technical services are anticipating a possible overwhelming of their capacity and have therefore decided to convert two of Zurich University’s indoor sports facilities into a temporary hospital to care for patients infected with the new coronavirus (COVID-19).

The two sports facilities have been equipped to house 48 beds. To protect the patients’ security, the hospital’s technical services have called upon their partner Swisspro AG to install a nurse call system.

Installation of a nurse call system for the security of patients

The Swisspro AG technicians have responded very quickly and done everything to ensure that the patients admitted can communicate with the caring staff as in a classical hospital setting. They naturally turned to GETS MSS, a long-standing partner that is a leading company for nurse call systems in Switzerland, to meet this special requirement.

The ATT AG company responded swiftly by sending technicians on-site to install their alarm server, which is often used in combination with GETS MSS solutions.

In order to equip this care unit with a secure call system as quickly as possible, GETS MSS has proposed a wireless nurse call solution which will help minimize costs and reduce installation times. The “GETS Wireless” solution is a call system certified as meeting the DIN VDE 0834-1 (VDE 0834-1): 2016-06 standard, which ensures a maximum level of security. It has been adapted to the infrastructure and will consist of remote control handsets for the patients, and call displays.

Teamwork to respond to needs arising from the pandemic

Since the beginning of the pandemic, GETS MSS has received urgent orders from health care institutions wishing to equip additional rooms with nurse call systems in order to increase the number of patients they can admit to their units. GETS MSS staff are working hard to meet the delivery deadlines so as to respond as quickly as possible to the orders and so take an active part in the battle against COVID-19.

GETS MSS is aware of the role it can play in this pandemic situation and accordingly its team remains available to help with patients’ security so as to make the caring teams’ work easier.

We wish to congratulate all the service providers and employees of GETS MSS who have enabled these systems to be installed quickly and efficiently.

Zurich Hospital will thus have 48 additional beds from next Wednesday, 8 April. This extension will enjoy all the security needed to enable the caring staff’s work to be done in an optimal way.

Successful cooperation of AudioText Telecom and Mitel

Since 1995, AudioText Telecom AG (ATT), based in Glattbrugg/Zurich, has been offering tailor-made alarm solutions for a wide range of industries throughout Switzerland and internationally. Using different packages, solutions can be provided to both SMEs and large corporations and, with the "Swiss Made" products, they always ensure a reliable alerting in emergency situations.

Mitel has been the leading provider of solutions for Unified Communications & Collaborations for 45 years. As a long-standing technology partner, Mitel relies on the AMX alarm server from ATT and can thus bundle various requirements and needs into one solution and successfully place systems with the end customer.

For smooth cooperation, support for all PBX systems from Mitel is guaranteed by ATT. Due to the long-standing business relationship between ATT and Mitel, the most varied projects with functions such as evacuation, localization, dead man (function), DECT-SMS and many more have been implemented.

Mr Werner Hingerl

Managing Director at Mitel Austria & Central South Eastern Europe, Turkey & Israel

Mitel is the global market leader for business communication. With its cloud products, and next-generation collaboration and enterprise communications applications, it delivers more than 2 billion business connections every day.

With more than 70 million users in almost 100 countries, Mitel is the only company that is fully committed to provide customers with individual future-proof communications solutions.

Our joint alerting solution ensures a fast communication flow, monitors systems and processes, triggers alarms and organizes the fastest possible assistance. This means that the requirements of hospitals/clinics and nursing homes, as well as of industry, trade and the public sector, can be perfectly covered.

The long-standing technology partnership with Mitel enables ATT to provide competent support for the implementation partners and their end customers, beginning with consulting and concept development up to support and maintenance of the delivered turnkey alarm server solutions.

You too can rely on this partnership!