Boilers for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Steam and hot water for sterilization, humidification, kitchens, and building heat, with the backup capacity a hospital needs.
Code-built boilers and vessels
Code repairs and alterations
Factory-authorized Tech Center
Factory-authorized Burner Tech Center
Fifth generation, family-owned
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McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. designs and builds steam and hot water boilers for hospitals and healthcare facilities, ships them to facilities across the United States and internationally, with startup and commissioning in any state, and installs and services them across California. McKenna builds its boilers in its ASME code shop in Oceanside, engineers central plants with backup capacity, brings in rental boilers to carry the load during replacements, and services McKenna boilers and other brands. A live person answers (323) 987-1816 24/7.
Healthcare & Hospitals
Steam and hot water for patient care.
Hospitals run boilers for sterilizers, humidification, kitchens, laundry, domestic hot water, and building heat, every hour of every day. Most central plants are designed with redundancy so one boiler can be down for service while the rest carry the load.
Replacing a boiler in a working hospital means the rest of the plant, or a rental boiler, carries the load. We schedule the work with your facilities team and sequence the tie-in and startup so sterilizers and heat stay on.
What matters
What a hospital and healthcare boiler room needs.
Redundancy
Enough capacity that one boiler can be out for service or repair without losing steam.
Sterilization steam
Steady pressure and dry steam for sterilizers and humidifiers. Your water treatment company sets the water treatment program for steam quality, within the limits in the boiler manufacturer’s manual. McKenna is not a water treatment company.
Work in an occupied building
Replacements planned to keep steam and heat on for the hospital.
Documentation
Inspection, maintenance, and test records kept for the facility and its inspectors.
What we do
Designed, built, and installed by McKenna.
New systems from our own shop, and service and repair on the boilers you already run, including other brands.
New boilers
Firetube, firebox, and vertical boilers built in our ASME code shop, sized so the plant carries the hospital with one boiler down.
Lead-lag systems
Two or more boilers run as one plant, with a standby boiler kept warm to pick up the load.
Rental boilers
Temporary steam or hot water to keep sterilizers and building heat on during a replacement, a retube, or an emergency.
24/7 emergency service
A live person answers (323) 987-1816 24/7, and an on-call technician gets to the hospital as soon as possible when a boiler trips or steam pressure drops.
Codes and rules
Hospital boiler records and air rules.
Hospital boilers are inspected for the Cal/OSHA permit to operate, and accreditation surveys review boiler maintenance and test records. McKenna keeps inspection, maintenance, and test records for each boiler it services and makes code repairs under its National Board R certificate.
Hospital boilers above the air district’s size threshold need a permit, and a standby boiler that runs only during outages can have different limits than the lead boiler. McKenna checks each boiler’s limit, supports permits and source testing, and retrofits ultra-low NOx burners when a boiler can’t meet its limit.
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In most cases, yes. McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. plans replacements around the hospital’s operation and can bring in a rental boiler so steam and heat stay on while the new boiler is installed and started. Any short tie-in outage is scheduled with your facilities team.
Yes. McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. records each inspection, low water cutoff and safety valve test, and repair on the boilers it services, so the facility has the history ready for its Cal/OSHA inspection and accreditation surveys.
Yes. A live person answers (323) 987-1816 24/7. An on-call McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. technician gets to the hospital as soon as possible, and a rental boiler can carry the sterilizers and building heat while the repair is made.
Yes. McKenna Boiler Works, Inc. services and repairs McKenna boilers and other brands, with preventative maintenance and annual service contracts.