{"id":217303,"date":"2021-01-19T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217303"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T05:48:47","slug":"r-u-d-i-germ-zapping-robot-arrives-jrmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217303","title":{"rendered":"R.U.D. I. the germ zapping robot arrives, JRMC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown\u00a0 (JRMC) \u2014 Meet R.U.D.I, the newest germ-zapping robot in Jamestown.
\nR.U.D.I. and his \u201cbest friend\u201d R.O.S.I.E. are twin Xenex LightStrike germ-zapping robots, designed to destroy hard-to-kill microscopic bacteria, viruses or other microorganisms.
\nJamestown Regional Medical Center revealed the new robot\u2019s name Friday, after a Name-The-Robot contest last month.
\nJRMC purchased R.U.D.I. at a historic time, said Dane Grebel, Enviromental & Support Services manager. Grebel also serves as the hospital\u2019s Emergency Manager.
\n\u201cR.O.S.I.E. has cleaned rooms and even offce spaces throughout this pandemic,\u201d he said. \u201cBefore R.U.D.I, our teams used R.O.S.I.E. to more than 100% of her capacity, meaning we were deferring maintenance, just to keep her going.\u201d
\nThe second robot is a blessing, he said.
\n\u201cNow that we have R.U.D.I., we can keep one robot upstairs in our patient care and Family BirthPlace units and one downstairs in the Emergency Department,\u201d he said. \u201cSince the Xenex LightStrike robots kill superbugs including COVID-19, this means JRMC has an added safety measure for both our patients and our teams. These robots are one of the many reasons JRMC is a destination for care in the region.\u201d
\nXenex LightStrike robots are 99.9% effective in enhancing environmental cleanliness by destroying hard-to-kill super-bugs like COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\"\"JRMC received more than 300 name submissions. The general public voted to select the name R.U.D.I., which means \u201cRobot Used to Destroy Infection.\u201d Dorrie\u00a0 Bergstrom\u00a0as well as Dann Holm, from JRMC\u2019s Plant Department, submitted the name. Holm said he said he chose R.U.D.I. because it and R.O.S.I.E. reminded him of the TV show, \u201cThe Jetsons.\u201d
\n\u201cIt seemed like a good fit,\u201d he said.
\nThe community agreed. Of the six robot-name finalists, R.U.D.I. received 150 out of 328 votes.
\nIn addition to the naming contest, JRMC also organized a coloring contest for children. More than 240 participated. Winners of that competition are first place, Kodi Graves; second place, Clara Seckerson; third place, Layla Anderson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud of all the participants,\u201d said Lisa Jackson, JRMC Foundation Director. \u201cWe hope they had a little fun during this challenging time. We\u2019re also grateful to the community.\u201d
\nEach robot costs about $100,000. A grant from the North Dakota Department of Commerce\u2019s Economic Resiliency Grant helped pay for R.U.D.I. while the community raised money for R.O.S.I.E. as part of 2018\u2019s Giving Hearts Day.
\nFor more information on funding projects, contact JRMC Foundation at (701) 952-4880.<\/p>\n

About Jamestown Regional Medical Center
\nJamestown Regional Medical Center is located at 2422 20th St. SW, Jamestown, N.D. and serves approximately 55,000 people in nine counties. In 2020, it was named a “Top 20 Critical Access Hospital” out of more than 1,300 CAHs in the country. Modern Healthcare has named JRMC a “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” each year since 2017. For more information, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call (701) 952-1050.<\/p>\n

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Photos Courtesy JRMC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0 (JRMC) \u2014 Meet R.U.D.I, the newest germ-zapping robot in Jamestown. R.U.D.I. and his \u201cbest friend\u201d R.O.S.I.E. are twin Xenex LightStrike germ-zapping robots, designed to destroy hard-to-kill microscopic bacteria, viruses or other microorganisms. Jamestown Regional Medical Center revealed the new robot\u2019s name Friday, after a Name-The-Robot contest last month. JRMC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217354,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217303\/revisions\/217354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}