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Billings, Montana hospital first in nation to use fuel cell

The Billings Clinic’s business may be health care, but on Saturday — Earth Day — it found itself celebrating energy efficiency with a first-in-the-nation power technology for hospitals.

In a lot just west of the clinic’s main hospital building in downtown Billings, clinic officials dedicated a new “fuel cell’’ power plant that will generate ultra-clean, less costly electricity for the hospital.

The one-year demonstration project is not only good for the environment, but also should help reduce health-care costs, said Jim Duncan, director of development and community affairs for Billings Clinic.

’’We really have to tackle (cost containment) from every possible angle, whether it be medical liability insurance or energy efficiency,’’ he said.

By MIKE DENNISON, IR State Bureau

Full Story: http://helenair.com/articles/2006/04/24/montana/02mt20060423231.txt

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