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News & Events
February 5, 2010
Western Shelter Mobility, United Health Group and Project Hope Team Up to Bring Healthcare to Those in Need.
Bringing quality health care to people in need, especially those in remote areas, has been a challenge for many years. When United Health Group and Project Hope discovered the need for more diabetes treatment and 
care facilities, Western Shelter Mobility provided a unique solution. The Mobility team designed an innovative system of 28’ trailers that could interconnect to form a quickly deployed and fully functioning mobile clinic.
Harnessing the power of telemedicine, these mobile clinics are equipped with satellite technology to provide real-time consultations between medical specialists and patients. This allows mobile clinics to be set up in areas of need, often in a remote setting, yet still connect patients to specialists across the globe. In order to achieve this goal, the team at Mobility outfitted each trailer with a 1.8 meter satellite dish that enables video conferencing and streamlined communications. Additionally, each trailer comes complete with standard medical technology from weight scales to retinal scanners. These devices, combined with telemedical technologies, allow practitioners to provide high quality care in a comfortable mobile medical environment.
This innovative combination of cutting edge medical practice and expert mobile design, allows United Health Group and Project Hope to take preventive and treatment based care where it is most needed. The first installment of these interconnecting trailers will be heading to New Mexico May 1st, 2010. These trailers will be deployed as a mobile diabetes clinic that will offer both prevention and treatment options.
For additional information on Western Shelter Mobility and their other ground breaking mobile medical solutions, please visit us at www.westernsheltermobility.com
Information on Project Hope and their current initiatives can be found at www.projecthope.org
See how United Health Group is helping people to live healthier lives at www.unitedhealthgroup.com
January 19, 2009
Western Shelter Mobility Systems Becomes Certified to ISO 9001:2000 Standards
Western Shelter Mobility Systems, a custom manufacturer of engineered specialty vehicles in Eugene, Oregon, has been certified by National Quality Assurance, USA, to ISO 9001:2000 standards following its first audit in October, 2008.
As certified, the Company’s scope of work includes innovative design, development and manufacture of custom vehicles, trailers, containers and logistical support 
equipment for specialized mobile applications and activities.
Mobility Systems is incorporating the ISO 9001 Standards into all aspects of the Company’s management, new product development, sales, manufacturing, customer support, training, and administration. Western Shelter Mobility Systems believes in life-long customer support, so operating to highest quality standards is imperative for customer satisfaction.
Because of Mobility’s affiliation with Western Shelter Systems, which has been ISO registered since 2000, the entire process from beginning to certification spanned less than seven months.
Several employees, led by Team Leader Guido Gold, were certified as internal auditors. The ISO Team will continue to manage the day-to-day quality system.
August 15, 2008
COBALT EQUIPMENT EXPANDS RENTAL FLEET WITH WESTERN SHELTER MOBILITY SYSTEMS
When Cobalt Equipment, one of the leading rental contractors in the country, wanted to add mobile GIS Mapping and Communications trailers to their emergency response rental fleet, Rob Knabe turned to Western Shelter Mobility Systems.
Cobalt needed maximum capability, bullet-proof electronic systems, comfortable functionality, and the highest quality possible…all at a budget that makes good business sense. And they needed it “right now, because the wildland fire season is about to start!”
Long-time shelter supplier, Western Shelter Systems of Eugene, Oregon, had dramatically expanded their custom-engineered trailer manufacturing facility in ‘07 to include the Mobility Systems operation, led by the design and engineering team of Al Shattuck and Mike Cheever.
Cobalt contracted with Western Shelter Mobility Systems first for their 53’ Geographic Information System (GIS) Mapping and Operations Center trailer, and then followed immediately with their 53’ Satellite Communications trailer.
The Cobalt GIS Mapping Trailer is a 3-room facility that includes a forward Mapping Room with map storage, map table and two plotters. The mid-located Tactical Command Area is over 24’ long and has at least five workstations. The aft Storage Area has plenty of storage and rear entry access.
The Cobalt Communications is a 4-room facility that includes three dispatch workstations in a 22’ long central section, two workstations in the aft Radio Room and Work Center, a Galley with entryway, and a forward private Office and Work station with the mainframe rack. A large screen monitor was mounted behind a weather-proof exterior panel, so briefings can be held for a large group under the 20’ awning. An electrically-actuated retracting satellite dish is mounted on the trailer nose and two 3.5 ton HVAC units are mounted on the rear of the trailer.
Both trailers have extensive storage space mounted in roll-out belly boxes beneath the trailers’ main frames. They were finished out with fresh paint and graphics to Cobalt specifications. And, yes, both trailers were ready for the fire season. On time, under budget, and always to the highest ISO 9001:2000 quality standards.
Located in Pleasanton, California, Cobalt Equipment offers the emergency response community full rental support for all temporary housing needs including temp-power, HVAC, mobile kitchen unit, dining facilities, shower units, mobile laundry units, emergency fueling trucks, and water trucks.
Because communication is so important in a disaster situation, Cobalt offers a full scope of communication equipment and support. Their satellite communication system was featured in USA Today as cutting edge. Satellite phones, internet services and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) are just a few of their high-tech services offered in any location.
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August 13, 2008
Mississippi Mobile Response System Featured at NDMS ’08 Conference
Conference attendees toured the federally-sponsored Mississippi State Medical Assistance Team (SMAT) emergency response trailer system. Each system consists of a custom designed 53-foot response trailer and an onboard, fully self-contained, six-shelter GateKeeper mobile medical complex. Both the trailer and the shelter equipment were designed, engineered, and provided by Western Shelter Systems.
Mississippi’s three SMAT mobile 50-bed field hospitals come close on the heels of North Carolina’s deployment of eight such mobile response systems. Western Shelter has been the preferred sheltering system for the NDMS DMAT and FEMA USAR teams since 1992.
“The Mississippi State Department of Health, Office of Emergency Planning and Response (OEPR), was proud to be able to demonstrate to our fellow first responders our regional response disaster medical response solution”, said Pam Hemphill, Emergency Management Coordinator, University of Mississippi Medical Center. “Being the only Level I Trauma Center in the State, as well as the only Children’s Hospital in the State, we knew that we needed to have something that would help us provide continuous coverage for any type of event. Western Shelter has provided us with a 150-bed field hospital that will not only serve our needs locally, but state wide as well.”
“The decision to take on a “hospital on wheels” was no easy task”, continued Hemphill. “Our teams are staffed by employees from UMMC, colleagues from the Health Department, Baptist Hospital, River Oaks Hospital, private companies, and various other agencies. Thanks to the dedication and determination of Drs. David Powe and Bob Galli, we are able to implement the vision we developed with the Health Department and Mississippi Hospital Association.”
“The people at Western Shelter have been wonderful to work with because they listen to what the people want, and they have the expertise to know what will work in a field setting”, Hemphill said. “Together, we have a win-win situation.”
Additional Background to this story:
The Mississippi Mobile Field Hospital specifications were designed to meet current standards for equipment that already exists within Mississippi and surrounding states. Western Shelter Systems are currently being utilized by the Mississippi SMAT and USAR, VISN Region 16 Department of Veterans Affairs, all North Carolina SMAT and USAR, all Florida DMAT and USAR teams, all Georgia DMAT and USAR, all South Carolina USAR, New Orleans and Louisiana Hospital Associations, all Oklahoma DAMT and USAR, and all Federal Disaster Medical Assi