Reliable water and ice solution for southern cancer medical center

Challenge

• A university medical facility based in North Carolina was looking for a sustainable, sanitary, and affordable hydration solution for their staff and patients.
• Require the highest level of filtration for the safest drinking water possible.

The Solution

• Hundreds of cold water and ice machines installed across a network of 18 hospital campuses and 14 hospitals.
• Installed state-of-the-art filtration to ensure clean, filtered, water on-demand 24/7.

Results

• Increased availability of freshly-filtered drinking water.
• Installed hundreds of water and ice dispensers across 30+ facilities.
• Eliminated at least 1 million single-use plastic water bottles from the waste stream.

The Story

A nationally-recognized university medical facility system with several hospital systems and healthcare clinics across North Carolina was looking to discontinue the inconvenient and wasteful practice of purchasing plastic water bottles and 5-gallon jugs while continuing to provide their staff and patients with sanitary and easily-obtainable water and ice.

By switching to Quench machines, this medical facility eliminated stale tasting water eased fears of cross-contamination. Quench’s water and ice dispensers use state-of-the-art purification technologies to provide freshly filtered water on-demand and use advanced UV to maintain cleanliness of the filtered water. Quench also uses state-of-the-art sanitization technology, including antimicrobial surface protection and touchless dispensing to ensure each glass of water or ice is as hygienic as possible.

Recently, select areas of North Carolina experienced source water contamination, but this university medical system put their full trust in Quench as Quench’s NSF/ANSI certified water filtration systems were the only systems on their campus able to filter out the contaminant, enabling the healthcare administration to continue to offer high-quality and great-tasting

Background

Hospitals and medical facilities need a reliable supply of clean, filtered water and ice for their patients, guests, and busy staff. Quench’s broad selection of bottleless water and ice systems and state-of-the-art filtration and sanitization technologies including NSF/ANSI certified filters to remove sediment, reduce chemical contaminants, and eliminate off-tastes and odors provide an easy sustainability win, eliminating plastic water bottles and 5-gallon jugs.