Healthcare facility supplies and equipment continue to be one of the leading expenses per patient discharge. Lowering rising expenditures is driving procurement managers and buyers, administrators, and equipment planners/purchasers to utilize supply chain management to reduce rising healthcare costs for their medical organization.
Supply chain management and healthcare logistics can, and must, work hand in hand to keep hospitals and clinics running at optimum performance. This is even more true when outfitting a new construction or expansion project.
Working with a dedicated capital equipment distributor can streamline the logistics process allowing supply chain management to maintain control over how deliveries, supplies and equipment flow into your facility.
If you’re opening up a new medical facility or just simply looking to remodel your current practice, direct-to-site delivery can help save you money.
Instead of handling everything separately, what if you had a medical equipment distributor that handled everything? Direct-to-site distributors, like Hospital Associate do just that, from placing the orders, to delivering the equipment on your time frame and even assembling the item(s) and removing packing materials for you.
By using a direct-to-site delivery service, you have the ability to save on the cost of medical equipment and time by having it completely set up in just 12 weeks.
Healthcare Supply Chain Strategist Lynn Everard, C.P.M., CBM, says the challenges faced by hospital equipment and supplies procurement managers include:
Success in design and construction of healthcare facilities is dependent on many factors, including a strong focus on the patient experience, application of cutting edge technology, adherence to a schedule, and strict control of the budget. The most critical factor in assuring the successful completion of a construction project is obtaining adequate financing to cover all of the actual construction costs, along with the attendant equipment costs to properly outfit the newly constructed space.
In addition, with procurement costs consuming between 30% and 50% of total project funds, allowances need to include in the construction budget for shipping, storing, delivering, and installing the equipment. In addition, the involvement of reliable clinical consultants, along with space and equipment planners may be of great benefit to the success of the project.
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