Raso Education Center
Health Care Education Resource in Jupiter, FL
More than just a building, the Raso Education Center represents the first
completed phase of our $50 million, three-phase expansion. An unmatched
educational resource for our team members, physicians, area clinicians,
researchers, and the community, the Raso Education Center is our next
step in delivering world-class, patient-centered clinical care, focusing
on academic and research excellence. We gratefully recognize our generous
donors who made the new Raso Education Center possible: Mrs. Shirley C.
and the late Dominick F. Raso, Margaret Clarke, the late Lawrence J. and
the late Florence A. De George, Kathryn W. Davis, Margaret A. Krupa, and
the Jupiter Medical Center Auxiliary.
About the Raso Education Center and the Clarke Auditorium
The newly constructed Raso Education Center at Jupiter Medical Center features
some of the most leading-edge technology available today.
Room management software allows the meeting room coordinators easy access
to automate the rooms and provide enhanced meeting room coordination and
scheduling. The software integrates with Microsoft Outlook on all desktops
and allows users to request meeting rooms and pair the requester with
the appropriate room, based on their technology requirements. The system
enables pre-programming for computers, projection screens and lights to
be turned on prior to the coordinator arriving for the meeting. Occupancy
sensors detect movement in the rooms. If a meeting has been canceled,
but not deleted from the system, the sensors will turn off lights and
equipment if no movement is detected within fifteen minutes from the start time.
Outside each meeting room is a 9-inch display showing meeting room information
that is used to view upcoming meetings and allow users to request available
meeting room space. The center also has a portable Wolfvision document
camera for clinical presentations.
The John H. & Margaret Clarke Auditorium
The auditorium offers a place to host physician lectures from top academic
medical centers. An ever popular educational tool, the physician lectures
at Jupiter Medical Center offered free of charge to community members
continue to grow at a rapid pace. Community members hear from doctors
on various topics in an intimate setting, and enjoy "asking the experts"
questions about health care and their areas of specialization. This room
offers video presentation capability with projection screens located on
the east and south walls to provide easy viewing from any location in
the room. Seating up to 150, the auditorium's state-of-the-art technology
includes a sound system with overhead speakers and wireless microphones.
The PC located in the podium has additional ports to allow for the Pathology
camera, Radiology PACs and laptop and USB inputs for presenters at weekly
cancer conferences and pre-treatment breast conferences.
The room is able to receive and send television video conferencing using
a LifeSize© video conferencing system and two high-definition pan-tilt-zoom
cameras. This allows physicians, nurses and allied health professionals
to attend continuing medical education conferences broadcast from any
facility, whether an academic or research setting, in an interactive environment.
Physician experts in their fields provide programs on a wide variety of
topics, ranging from neurological evaluations to integrative medicine,
oncology and more.
In the near future, the building will be equipped for participants to view
live surgeries from one of the operating rooms in the main hospital, which
will allow for a group of physicians to watch procedures while in the
Raso Education Center. This room offers two-way communication between
the operating room and the Raso Education Center while a surgeon performs
a procedure. The surgeon will have the ability to control the high definition
cameras in the Raso from the operating room, so that he or she may view
the audience. The system also enables presenters to connect any HDMI device—be
it a laptop, iPhone, iPad, etc.—to the system and view it on any
of the motorized projection screens.
The Lawrence J. & Florence A. De George Board Room
This room is equipped with a high-quality projector for video presentations.
The PC located in the lectern has a 15-inch interactive display and added
ports to accommodate the Pathology camera and Radiology PACs display,
as well as laptop and multiple USB inputs for presenters. The room also
contains overhead speakers and wireless microphones. In addition, this
room is able to receive and send television video conferencing using a
LifeSize© video conferencing system and two high-definition pan-tilt-zoom
cameras. The system allows any trustee that is out of town to participate
in meetings. The board room table has imbedded charging stations and several
PC, laptop and tablet inputs.
Innovation Room
The Innovation Room is designed to enable Jupiter Medical Center process
experts to encourage, facilitate and deliver new and improved medical
processes to our community. The room utilizes the most advanced integrated
media, communication and knowledge-capture technology available today
to both increase the velocity and reduce the cost of medical process research
and design.
The room is modular in design to offer unlimited room configurations. A
174-inch-wide intuitive, multi-touch and gesture-driven SMART board system
digitally captures new process ideas. A social media-ready and interactive,
video-enabled Apple-Television system offers virtual research and conferencing
with medical experts worldwide. Two iPad ports will allow improvement
concepts discovered outside the room to be brought in and shared instantly,
capturing ideas found during daily work and sending them to the Innovation
Room's network.
Physician Training Rooms
Our two physician training rooms offer video presentation capability with
projection screens in a classroom setting. Designed for physicians to
be able to receive and send television video conferencing using a LifeSize©
video conferencing system and two high-definition pan-tilt-zoom cameras.
This allows physicians, nurses and allied health professionals to attend
continuing medical education conferences broadcast from any facility,
whether an academic or research setting, in an interactive environment.
Physician experts in their fields provide programs on a wide variety of
topics from neurological evaluations to integrative medicine and oncology.
Currently in development, one of our physician training rooms will have
the ability to broadcast live surgeries from one of the operating rooms
in the main hospital, allowing for a group of physicians to view, learn,
and have two-way communication between the operating room and the Raso
Education Center while a surgeon performs a procedure. The surgeon will
have the ability to control the high definition cameras in the Raso Center
from the operating room, so that he or she may view the audience. The
system also enables presenters to connect any HDMI device—be it
a laptop, iPhone, iPad, etc.—to the system and view it on any of
the motorized projection screens.
Additional Facilities
The Kathryn W. Davis Computer Training Lab has sixteen PCs for team member training on Jupiter Medical Center applications.
The Internet Cafe has three iMac workstations along the north glass wall, an iPad docking
location and a large flat panel LCD monitor for display of content as
well as CATV.