When employees and visitors started fearing for their safety when approaching and leaving St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., because the lighting around the hospital was insufficient, the owners of the facility, Dignity Health, recognized the problem, according to an article on the FacilitiesNet website.
Dignity Health owns 38 hospitals. Many of the facilities are similar to St. Mary — older, urban hospitals featuring outdoor lighting systems that date back to the 1990s.
When Dignity started its $9.6 million campus exterior lighting project in 2014, St. Mary featured many of the deficiencies that the healthcare provider hoped to improve.
“It pretty well represented the breadth of the challenge for the providers,” said Paul Gerner, Dignity’s director of corporate real estate.
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