In Healthcare, trust and reliability aren’t just preferences; they’re requirements. With more than 100 years of expertise, Cummins is one of the world’s most trusted providers of critical power for healthcare facilities. We engineer, build, and factory-test fully integrated systems — including generator sets, switchgear, transfer switches, controls, microgrid components, and digital monitoring tools — to deliver seamless, reliable power when it matters most.
Beyond emergency backup power, Cummins delivers scalable, flexible, and sustainable power solutions that support your facility today and adapt to your needs over time. From combined heat and power (CHP) and trigeneration to peak shaving, prime power, and microgrid assets, our systems help you increase resiliency and lower operating costs. And with one of the industry’s largest 24/7 service and support networks, our expert technicians ensure your system stays connected, compliant, and always ready — so you can focus on delivering uninterrupted care with complete confidence.
Reliability for every healthcare application
Every care setting has different needs, but all rely on power that won't fail. We support healthcare facilities with trusted, application-specific solutions.
Hospitals
Support essential systems and complex facility operations with scalable backup and resilient power solutions for high-demand environments.
Outpatient facilities and clinics
Plan dependable backup power for care settings where continuity, comfort and operational uptime still matter.
Ambulatory surgical centers
Support procedure continuity, critical loads and facility readiness with solutions sized for focused, high-consequence environments.
Behavioral health centers
Support safe environments with reliable power that keeps security, monitoring, lighting, and essential operations running during outages.
Long-term care facility
Help protect resident safety, comfort and continuity during outages and power quality events.
Labs and blood banks
Ensure refrigeration, environmental control, monitoring, and critical processes stay operational where materials and workflows are sensitive to disruption.
The right support - right when you need it. With the largest global support footprint in the industry, Cummins delivers fast, consistent service. And because Cummins owns, trains, and controls its distributor network in key regions, you'll always have a direct connection to the people who know Cummins' solutions best.
Our bodies and minds don’t follow a close of business.
As today’s grid faces increasing strain from rising demand and the transition to cleaner energy, downtime is simply not an option for mission-critical operations.
In hospitals, power is life. A momentary outage can disrupt surgeries, pause life-sustaining equipment, compromise patient safety, and damage critical medical data.
Power outages and system downtime carry consequences in every industry, but the impact ranges widely depending on the setting.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the stakes in healthcare were higher than ever and for backup power systems, the potential for failure simply was not an option.
When the Krankenhaus Bozen (KH BZ) Antagen Societa Consortile needed to build a new hospital in Bolzano, Italy, it required a new power generation system that fit the specific requirements of hospital regulations.
The AnMed Health Medical Center in Anderson, South Carolina (U.
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is the largest private medical center in Louisiana (U.
Frequently asked questions
Healthcare backup power refers to the emergency and resilient power systems that help healthcare facilities continue critical operations during utility interruptions.
Hospitals and other critical care environments often have more complex operational, life-safety and facility requirements than standard commercial buildings.
Yes. Cummins offers generator sets, transfer switches, switchgear, controls, remote monitoring tools and related technologies that support more integrated healthcare power strategies.
Yes. Cummins supports new healthcare construction, facility expansion, modernization and system upgrades.
Code requirements should be reviewed in the context of the facility type, jurisdiction and authority having jurisdiction. Cummins can support solution planning and equipment selection, while final code interpretation remains with the appropriate engineering and regulatory stakeholders.
