Searching for exam tables can be an overwhelming task. Due to the various clinical settings designed to treat different patients with different issues, there are multiple types of exam tables that correspond with each setting.
Searching for exam tables can be an overwhelming task. Due to the various clinical settings designed to treat different patients with different issues, there are multiple types of exam tables that correspond with each setting.
According to the American Hospital Association’s guide, Sustainability Roadmap for Hospitals, healthcare facilities generate up to 25 pounds of waste per day per patient. What if we made a goal to lessen waste by thinking green from the very beginning, during the planning and purchasing stage?
Biomedical departments in large healthcare systems have a myriad of important responsibilities including:
We can all relate to having our weight taken during each medical visit. Our first encounter with a scale just after our birth is a kind of harbinger to what will be the most consistent measure of our health status done by clinicians.
Obtaining patient weight is fundamental, found across an array of hospital departments and specialties including:
In a recent article in Healthcare Facilities Today, CME Corp’s Cindy Juhas talks about the year-end capital budget process, and outlines some of the planning that needs to unfold at the end of the year through the following year. CME can help you with that planning in three distinct ways.
Most healthcare systems have a Green Initiative and are making great strides reducing carbon emissions in their daily activities. To a large extent though, many are not looking at what happens on a new facility construction site. CME Corp’s Cindy Juhas recently published an article, “When green sites earn black marks” in Healthcare Purchasing News.
Cindy cited an article from Building Forward that stated “While green building and energy efficiency have been a rallying cry of the construction industry for nearly two decades, the amount of waste that’s produced at construction sites to build these more environmentally friendly structures has only continued to rise, as builders still simply throw out materials on-site that could be recycled or reused.”
With 100 healthcare facilities belonging to its cooperative, the Atlanta, Ga.-based nonprofit Partners Cooperative (Partners) is one of the oldest, longest-standing groups within Vizient Inc., the nation’s leading healthcare performance improvement company serving more than half of the health care organizations in the U.S.
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