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Using Cell Phone as Pager

I'm new to this forum and am fairly ignorant about digital
communication, however after trolling the newsgroups, this seemed the
most likely place for my post.

My wife works at hospitals in two different cities. She carries a
hospital-issued pager depending on which hospital and which floor she
happens to be working on. She often forgets she's wearing the pager
and brings it home. If she's not at the same location the following
day, she has to return the pager for the next shift -- obviously a
hassle.

I was wondering if it would be possible to get her a smartphone that
she could use as a pager depending on which location she is at. So
instead of carrying the 4-South pager, she could push some key
combination on her phone that would receive pages directed to the
4-South pager.

If this is possible -- does anyone have any hardware recommendations?
Her birthday's comming up, and I've been looking at a Treo 650.

BTW, We don't have any control over the hospitals' paging systems, so
getting her own page number isn't a viable solution.

Thanks.

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