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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hospital Administration</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">DATE: February 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SUBJECT: Generator Test: East Tower</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The next monthly test is scheduled for<b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(237, 92, 87);"><b>Tuesday, February 20, 2024</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><u>THE EAST TOWER GENERATOR TEST PROCEDURES ARE AS FOLLOWS:</u></b></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The test will be announced over the paging system fifteen minutes prior to the test (5:00AM).</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The emergency generators will be started between 5:00AM and 5:05AM and used as the source for the emergency power feed for approximately 60 minutes.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Emergency power will be switched back to the electrical feed between 6:35AM and 6:45AM when the generators are turned off.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Completion of the test will be announced over the paging system.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Users of emergency power will notice a series of sequential blinks at the beginning of the East Tower test (one per electrical zone) as each of the 14 emergency power
switches are engaged. At the end of the test, all areas will blink (yellow) as the switches return their respective areas to normal power.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Elevators in the East Tower may stop and start during power transition.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If an
<u>unavoidable emergency</u> arises close to the time that the emergency generator test is scheduled and you feel that a brief power interruption would be detrimental to patient care, immediately contact the Maintenance Operations Center at 4-4230.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The test, although intended to simulate an actual power outage, has been modified to keep the disruption to Hospital services at a minimum. If an actual power outage occurs,
the electrical circuits supported by the generator will be without power for 5 to 10 seconds except for those areas which have their own uninterruptible power supplies. Our recent experience suggests that a real power outage can be expected once a year.
If you have equipment, processes, etc. that cannot cope with a power outage of this duration, your department should consider installing uninterruptible power supplies (UPS's).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have any questions or concerns regarding the test or the emergency power system, please feel free to contact Stewart Hatzinger, Facilities Electrical Manager, Physical
Plant at extension 4-8923.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Your continued cooperation in completing the code mandated emergency diesel generator test is greatly appreciated.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you.</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anne Hodges, Office Assistant 2</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">315-464-4230</span></div>
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