McLaren Health Care Selects Cree LED Lighting to Deliver Intelligent Light Across Its Statewide Hospital Network
February 21 2017 - 9:00AM
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Largest Cree SmartCast Lighting Installation
Improves Patient Experience, Increases Staff Productivity and
Delivers $1.6M in Annual Cost Savings to McLaren Health Care
Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announced today that McLaren Health
Care (McLaren), a Michigan-based integrated healthcare network, has
selected Cree LED Lighting and Cree SmartCast® Technology to
modernize exterior and interior lighting across 11 hospitals.
Cree’s advanced LED solutions go beyond light with intelligence
that automatically adapts to the environment to deliver greater
energy savings and personalized environments that promote comfort,
safety and security for McLaren patients, visitors and staff.
25,000 Cree® outdoor and indoor LED fixtures, including over 12,000
Cree SmartCast® intelligent lighting fixtures are installed
throughout the facilities, enabling McLaren to reduce their energy
costs by 66 percent and realize an estimated savings of over $1.6M
annually in energy and operating expenses.
The McLaren LED lighting project is Cree’s most comprehensive
healthcare installation featuring both indoor and outdoor lighting
in parking garages, hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and staff
centers. Cree’s SmartCast intelligent lighting solutions and LED
fixtures span across 5 million square feet of the expansive McLaren
hospital network. The innovative solutions simplify energy
management, help to improve staff productivity and morale, boost
patient satisfaction and enhance brand appeal.
Gary Trott, vice president intelligent lighting for Cree stated,
“The McLaren Health Care installation demonstrates our commitment
to delivering a better lighting experience for patients, staff and
visitors through our intelligent LED technology. We are honored to
work with McLaren on our largest SmartCast® Technology installation
and are pleased that they will join the many other premier
healthcare facilities that leverage Cree’s advanced LED
technology.”
Healthcare facilities, many of which operate 24/7, consume
enormous amounts of energy in the form of heat, light and
electricity. A June 2016 Yale University study cited that the
healthcare sector contributes 8 percent of the nation’s greenhouse
gas emissions, emitting more than the entire United Kingdom. Cree’s
intelligent LED technology will enable McLaren to optimize energy
savings and utilize their space effectively, furthering McLaren’s
corporate-wide initiative to promote sustainable business
practices.
“McLaren is committed to reducing our carbon footprint as much
as possible by decreasing our energy use,” remarked Keith Miller,
corporate facilities manager, McLaren Health Care. “Cree’s
innovative lighting allows us to reach our sustainability goals
quickly and cost effectively while improving patient, staff and
visitor experiences.”
The Cree SmartCast Technology and LED lighting installation
provides McLaren with numerous benefits, including:
- Lowered operational costs, a total of
$1.6M per year
- Reduced environmental impact with a
sustainable choice
- Consistent lighting and “brand”
experience across all of the facilities
- Scalable and flexible with a connected
and intelligent operation
- Simplified fixture monitoring and
maintenance, re-configuration, upgrades and expansion
- Higher productivity for staff and a
heightened sense of well-being for patients and visitors
For more information on the McLaren Health Care installation
please visit betterlight.cree.com/mclaren. For more information
about Cree’s SmartCast Technology, please click here or download
the Cree Healthcare Position paper.
About Cree, Inc.
Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs,
lighting products and semiconductor products for power and radio
frequency (RF) applications. Cree believes in better light
experiences and is delivering new innovative LED technology that
transforms the way people experience light through high-quality
interior and exterior LED lighting solutions.
Cree’s product families include LED lighting systems and bulbs,
blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class
power LEDs, power-switching devices and RF devices. Cree’s products
are driving improvements in applications such as general
illumination, electronic signs and signals, power supplies and
inverters.
Please refer to www.cree.com for additional product and Company
information.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Flint, Michigan, is a
fully integrated health network committed to quality evidence-based
patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12
hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a
450-member employed primary and specialty care physician network,
commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 250,000 lives, home
health and hospice providers, retail medical equipment showrooms,
pharmacy services, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance
company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer
centers and providers, anchored by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer
Institute, one of only 45 National Cancer Institute-designated
comprehensive centers in the U.S. McLaren has 22,500 employees and
more than 43,000 network providers. Its operations are housed in
more than 350 facilities serving the entire Lower Peninsula of the
state of Michigan along with a portion of the Upper Peninsula.
This press release contains forward-looking statements involving
risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown, that may cause
actual results to differ materially from those indicated. Actual
results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including
the risk that actual savings and lifetimes will vary from
expectations; the risk we may be unable to manufacture these new
products with sufficiently low cost to offer them at competitive
prices or with acceptable margins; the risk we may encounter delays
or other difficulties in ramping up production of our new products;
customer acceptance of our new products; the rapid development of
new technology and competing products that may impair demand or
render Cree’s products obsolete; and other factors discussed in
Cree’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 26, 2016,
and subsequent filings.
Cree® and SmartCast® are registered trademarks of Cree, Inc.
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