Systems Installed
- Trane can provide a wide range of HVAC equipment from 5-ton packaged systems through large centrifugal chillers, building
automation systems and controls, plus service, parts and project management.
Trane provides sales, service, parts and project management support for Kindred Healthcare.
In the summer of 2007 the chiller at a Kindred
Healthcare nursing home in Salt Lake City
failed. Temperatures that week reached about
95 degrees every day, causing extremely warm
conditions in the nursing home.
Kindred Healthcare called on Trane in Salt Lake
City. Within just a couple hours of arriving at
the nursing home, Trane service technicians had
the chiller repaired and temperatures within the
nursing home returned to comfortable levels.
As a result of Trane’s fast, professional response
to this service call, Kindred Healthcare now
relies on Trane sales, service and support for
facilities throughout the Rocky Mountain
region and beyond. Kindred Healthcare has
contracted with Trane for service contracts,
service and maintenance projects and a variety
of contracting jobs relative to HVAC and other
building systems.
For example, Kindred Healthcare recently
asked Trane to provide a backup, dieselpowered
electrical generator for a facility
in Englewood, Colorado. Trane handled the
project by serving as the general contractor and
project manager, completing the project within
Kindred Healthcare’s strict schedule. Trane is
now completing similar projects in Washington,
Wyoming and Utah.
Craig Sharpe, Area Manager of Maintenance for
Kindred Healthcare in Utah, Montana, Wyoming
and Colorado, has worked in the healthcare
industry for 26 years, previously in the Southeast
United States. Sharpe says, “When I came to the
Rocky Mountain region I was already familiar
with Trane’s capabilities. For example, when that
chiller went down at that Salt Lake City nursing
home, after we called Trane they had five
technicians out there on a Saturday morning.
“Hospitals and nursing homes need service now
or yesterday! We rely on Trane because they
have the resources we need. And when we need
equipment, they have it in stock. Trane goes the
extra mile for me.”
Kindred Healthcare’s mission is to promote
healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and
produce value for each patient, resident, family
member, customer, employee and shareholder.
Kindred Healthcare has annual revenues of more
than $4 billion and has approximately 54,000
employees. With headquarters in Louisville,
Kentucky, Kindred Healthcare operates 82
hospitals and 222 nursing centers across the
United States.