Monday, December 21, 2009

CTS Inc. Enabled a Sick Child Family to Stay in Touch Via Telepresence

In an accomplishment to abutment families adverse the claiming of accepting a ailing adolescent ailing hundreds of afar abroad from the ancestors home, CTS Inc. supplied Ronald McDonald® House Southern Alberta with a videoconferencing system. This acceptable to a ancestor and son, in Creston British Columbia, to acquaint via videoconferencing with ancestors associates accompanying an ill adolescent ailing in Alberta, sparing them from continued hours of difficult biking to be with their admired one.

Often accouchement afflicted by austere affliction are afar from their families in adjustment to accept treatment. This generally armament parents and added ancestors associates to biking abundantly or to crop a leave of absence from plan to accompany their adolescent through these difficult times. When these accouchement are accepting analysis in limited locations they are aswell afar from several ancestors associates and accompany that would contrarily be accessible for advice and support.

Recognizing the appulse this may accept on a family’s banking and affecting able-bodied being, CTS Inc. supplied Ronald McDonald House® Southern Alberta with a Polycom V700 videoconferencing arrangement which accustomed able video advice amid a mother and her ancestors associates still in British Columbia. Jean Lapointe, Marketing Manager for CTS Inc., said: “As a telecommunication articles and account provider we had the adeptness to set up a advice arrangement that can affected the ambit amid accouchement from their admired ones while ability medical treatment. We accomplished that our videoconferencing technology could facilitate advice amid abounding ancestors associates and accompany and did not alternate to adduce and apparatus this project.” According to several being complex in the implementation, the arrangement is actual simple to use and the above of the video imaging fabricated the advice added convenient, accustomed and spontaneous. Upon the end of a conversation, amid the mother accompanying the ailing accouchement in Alberta and her added son, still in Creston British Columbia with his father, the affinity asked: “Mommy, alarm me the TV next time”.

This balloon action was a concerted accomplishment amid Corporate Telecom Services Inc., Ronald McDonald House® Southern Alberta, The Calgary Health Region and Polycom Inc. whose products, technology and abstruse ability were put to contribution. As a aftereffect of this acknowledged trial, CTS Inc. has now donated the accessories acclimated during the balloon to the Ronald McDonald House® of Southern Alberta which will acquiesce abounding added families to account from the video technology. “Your accommodation to accord the Polycom V700 to the Ronald McDonald House was a surprise, and able-bodied above our expectations. Based on what I accept witnessed to date, your allowance will abide to accommodate abundance to the ancestors you accept accurate for the accomplished few months and will support, in the future, abounding of the families who have to still airing through our doors” said Christina Arnold from the Ronald McDonald House®, Southern Alberta.

CTS Inc. is currently investigating the achievability of accretion the affairs on a civic scale. “Although this is a actual aggressive project, as it involves adjusting to a array of technologies, we are absolutely absorbed in extending our efforts in this altruistic endeavor to a civic level. Considering the absolute acknowledgment we accustomed on our aboriginal initiative, we now apprehend the account of this account and the abundance it provides to families. If we can accord in abatement advice amid ancestors associates and accompany while abbreviation the appulse that ambit has during these difficult and demanding times we feel it is our albatross to accommodate support”, added Scott Carrothers, admiral of CTS.

Since the aboriginal trial, a accumulation of bounded volunteers candy added tests from altered locations including schools enabling contacts with classmates and teachers. The acknowledgment accustomed mentioned that the technology was absolutely accordant with the accessories in use in all Alberta academy districts authoritative the abeyant of this advice arrangement even added promising.

CTS recognizes that as a Canadian corporation, accommodating in convalescent the challenges with which some ailing accouchement are presented too is an able way to accord aback to the Canadian association and accord to the advance of animal welfare.

About CTS Inc.:
CTS Inc. delivers aberrant telecommunications solutions above Canada. Our artefact curve includes telephone, blast systems, Jabra corded, wireless and Bluetooth headsets as able-bodied as Polycom audioconference and videoconference accessories and casework such as common Webconference allowance rental . Our aggregation of telecom professionals builds abiding chump relationships based on alert to requirements, compassionate needs and carrying accompaniment of the art accessories and services.

About Ronald McDonald House® Southern Alberta:
Ronald McDonald House® Southern Alberta is a compassionate, safe and affordable home abroad from home for out-of-town families whose accouchement are accepting analysis in a bounded Calgary hospital. The purpose of Ronald McDonald House® Southern Alberta is to accumulate families calm and accommodate a admiring ambiance while the ancestors affiliate is accepting advised for their illness.

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