Healthcare Sector Backup Power Customer Stories

Cat® Natural Gas Generators Give Hospital Network Reliable, Efficient Heat and Power

When they needed new natural gas generators for their network of seven hospitals, the Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) network turned to Toromont Power Systems, their local Cat Dealer. With 13 Cat G3516H natural gas generator sets providing heat and power, the network lowered emissions, gained efficiency and energy resiliency, and reduced costs with peak shaving.

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Cat Diesel Generators Keep Hospital Running During Hurricane Ida

Louisiana Cat helped ensure Children’s Hospital New Orleans had sufficient backup power with the addition of four new Cat C32 generator sets and upgrades to two of the hospital’s existing four 3508 generator sets. To avoid any disruption to surgeries and services, the hospital switched over to its backup diesel generator sets prior to Hurricane Ida and maintained uninterrupted power before and after the storm.

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Children’s Hospital New Orleans

OSF St. Francis Medical Center Relies on Cat Backup Generators for 24/7 Patient Care

When a blown transformer resulted in an emergency power loss at OSF St. Francis Medical Center, three Cat 32 generator sets powered the 10-building campus until the utility feed was restored, more than a month later. If the center experiences an outage, the Cat generators start up within 10 seconds to provide campus-wide power.

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OSF St. Francis Medical Center

St. Luke’s Hospital Maintains Critical Power with Cat® Backup Generators

When Cedar Rapids’ grid power was knocked during a powerful derecho in August 2020, St. Luke’s operated for two days solely o…
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Arbors of Hop Brook Depends on Cat Generator to Help Keep Residents Comfortable

The Arbors of Hop Brook retirement community recently transitioned to an efficient heating and cooling system for its facilit…
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Hospital Doubles Down On Commitment To Energy Efficiency

As part of an energy-savings initiative, Saint Peter’s University Hospital installed a 2 MW combined heat and power (CHP) pla…
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Treatment Depends on Power that Never Quits

WestCare Foundation offers a wide range of health and human services for people traditionally considered difficult to treat. …
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Florida Senior Living Communities Depend on Standby Power from Cat Generators

To keep residents safe during a power outage, HarborChase of Wildwood and HarborChase of Villages Crossing installed Cat® gen…
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Cogeneration Helps Large Hospital Lower Energy Costs

Inside a hospital, every dollar spent on heating and cooling is a dollar less spent caring for patients. That’s why Boston Me…
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CHP Lowers Energy Costs at Award-winning Hospital

As one of the top 40 research hospitals in Canada, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre needs reliable power to suppor…
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The Power of Critical Planning

After witnessing the catastrophic failures of medical facilities after Hurricane Katrina, the Medical University of South Car…
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Diesel Generator Sets Support Medical and Data Center Power

To support the construction of their new patient tower, Summa Health administrators selected Cat® dealer Ohio Cat to supply t…
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Delivering Around-the-clock Power for Biomedical Research at VCOM

To ensure uninterrupted power, VCOM installed a Cat® G3412 gas generator to back up the utility feed at their Auburn campus w…
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The St. Luke Foundation and Cat Dealer Haytrac Provide Vital Healthcare

A new Cat 3512 diesel generator set provides outstanding power and support for the foundation's mission.
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New Energy Plant and Generator Sets Power Raleigh Healthcare System

To meet the growing power demands for the highest level of care, UNC REX Healthcare installed Cat® generator sets to provide …
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Paralleling Gensets Benefit Mercy Health Muskegon

Paralleling gensets eliminates the need for traditional switchgear. Implementing these efficient gensets allows for a smaller…
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Reliable, Cost-Efficient Combined Heat and Power

The University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center (UM UCMC) installed a new Cat® G3516H natural gas-fired generator …
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Quiet, Clean, Reliable Power

Tift Regional Health System is a hospital network serving 12 counties in southern Georgia. Multiple expansions over the last …
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Hospital Trusts Cat® Gensets for Backup Emergency Power

Choosing Cat generator sets and relying on support from Pantropic Power to help the healthcare system run ready was a simple …
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Standby power solution for mission-critical care

Edward Hospital & Health Services overcame sound and space constraints with a customized standby power solution to better sup…
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Serious about patient safety, they trust Caterpillar for power

Patient safety is a top priority at Vista; however, operating a surgical facility on an island that has an unstable power gri…
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Standby Power Relies on Rigorous Preventive Maintenance

The gensets, including three that are more than 20 years old, undergo a rigorous preventive maintenance program to discover p…
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Quiet, reliable, redundant backup power solutions

“With Cat’s system in place, the hospital has a great deal of redundancy and reliability built in,” said Deason. “Our monitor…
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Emergency Backup Power with Trusted Support

This hospital project was of great significance to Caterpillar and Al-Bahar, as it represented the first installation of a C1…
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Emergency Standby Power with a Reputation for Fast, Strong Support

Altorfer Cat was the top-of-mind choice because of strong support they delivered to UnityPoint Health in the fall of 2013, wh…
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Standby power solution maintains cost-effective quality

Thompson is content to have the generator sets on hand to see the hospital through emergencies. “I could operate the entire h…
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Emergency preparedness saves lives

“In our business, seconds count. If I get a call — anytime, anywhere — that something’s happening and we need help, I know I …
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100% Continuous Power

The Cat generator set start module provides redundant starting power that is supplied directly from the UPS output, providing…
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