Med Center Paging Services
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Overview
The Stanford Paging System is available only to faculty, staff, and students affiliated with the Stanford Medical Center. The Pager Administration office provides pager information and assistance. It's located at Stanford University Hospital, Room HC0009. Office hours are M-F, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Phone (650) 725-7101 (or, 5-7101 from any Stanford campus phone).
Paging Systems
The Stanford Medical Center uses two types of paging systems, often referred to as "Stanford network" and "long-range".
- Stanford Bay Area Network (Stanford BAN). Most of the Stanford medical community—and all code teams—use a Stanford-owned paging system for their paging service. Pagers are owned by departments. Users send pages over a frequency used ONLY by the Stanford paging system.
- Arch Wireless system (long-range). Staff, students and faculty who live or work in areas not reachable by the Stanford system may rent Arch Wireless pagers from the Pager Administration office.
Note: Arch Wireless pagers are not available for personal accounts. This service costs more and pages tend to take a bit longer to be transmitted. However, Arch Wireless does provide a larger area in which you can receive pages. Keep in mind that Stanford has much less control over the reliability of the Arch Wireless service.
The two systems differ in the following ways:
| Stanford Bay Area Network |
Arch Wireless (long-range) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Range | 50 miles | 300 miles |
| Pager Price | alphanumeric: $106.00 | no charge |
| Monthly Charge | $4/month | $3/month plus: $4.50/month for numeric, $9.25/month for alphanumeric |
| Billing | billed from IT Services | billed from Arch Wireless (except for the $3/month charge listed above, which is billed from IT Services) |
| Repair | no repairs — purchase new pager | bring broken pager to Pager Administration: exchange damaged pager for another unit |
How to Call the Stanford Paging System
| High Priority (Code, STAT, Urgent) |
Priority (Page Operator) |
Routine (AutoPage) | Call Connect | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital and Clinics and LPCH | 211 | 288 | 222 | 5-8500 |
| School of Medicine* | 286 | 288 | 222 | 5-8500 |
| Other Stanford Phones | Not applicable. For EMERGENCIES, dial 9-911 |
3-6661 | 3-8222 | 5-8500 |
| Payphones and other Non-Stanford Phones | Not applicable. For EMERGENCIES, dial 9-911 |
723-6661 | 723-8222 | 725-8500 |
* School of Medicine buildings include: Alway, Beckman, CCSR, Edwards, Fairchild, Falk, Grant/Science, Lane, MSOB,
800 Welch Road (Stanford School of Medicine Blood Center), 801 Welch Road (Stanford Otolaryngology),
401 Quarry Road (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
