Managing any area of a healthcare facility is challenging enough. Add to that a hospital expansion project and managers are going to have to draw upon their own positive personal attributes to manage and succeed in this complex endeavor. It is helpful to have professionals in the industry to aid in streamlining the necessary workflow and optimizing the equipment delivery tasks to support it.
When you are engaged in a major new construction, expansion or remodeling project a prime concern is that of acquiring the equipment necessary to test and treat the patients as well as the furniture needed to outfit your new medical facility.
To be sure that the equipment is delivered and set up in a timely manner and in proper operating condition, you should choose a medical equipment distributor that is experienced in doing just that.
Working with an experienced and dedicated equipment distributor streamlines the logistic process and provides two important elements that determines how the equipment will flow into your facility: assembly and staging, and direct-to-site delivery.
Large healthcare systems buying smaller, stand-alone, hospitals and physician providers merging together or being bought by hospitals has become a big trend within the healthcare industry. That same trend is being seen on the commercial side of the healthcare industry as well as the clinical side. The healthcare industry has become very competitive and the benefits of larger group models provides many attractive benefits for both the product/service providers and their clients/customers, even including the patients. The following are just a few of the best of those advantages:
Healthcare facilities are a vital resource to a community that serves a wide range of patients during times of illness or injury. To serve these patients properly, a medical facility must be well designed, safe and resourceful. If you are currently renovating or building a new hospital here are five key planners who can help the development of your building move smoothly, be effective and profitable.
The significance of strategic sourcing when medical equipment planners are involved in a new construction project, is critical to its success. Delivering all the individual equipment components to the site at the appropriate time to coincide with the construction phases takes a concentrated amount of coordination between departments and suppliers, but consolidating those efforts with a single point-of-contact can serve to lower the margin for error.
A hospital system's offsite healthcare facilities or satellite facilities have many of the same equipment needs as the parent facilities but have different setups when it comes to the delivery and reception of these items.
The unique requirements for off-site facilities (like physician offices, surgery centers, and rehab centers) require some additional attention to allow for a smooth delivery process.
Since equipment is frequently purchased through the purchasing department of the hospital or IDN (integrated delivery network), it is important to bear in mind the special requirements of these facilities.
Since the passing of the Affordable Care Act, most medical systems are doing a pretty tough balancing act; needing to improve healthcare quality while trying to decrease healthcare spending. This becomes problematic when it comes to deciding on spending money on new capital equipment.
In the current healthcare environment most hospital systems and IDN’s have one or more of the following goals: improved quality of care, outstanding patient satisfaction, growing capacity to provide more integrated healthcare, and cutting costs.
Based on the numbers, healthcare facility development or expansion is likely in your future. Forward thinking and planning leads to positive action, and that’s how your expansion project will be developed. However, unlike other businesses, healthcare facilities have stringent laws and guidelines, checks and balances in every department.
So, how do you guarantee your patient-centered project will be a successful venture?
Purchasing medical equipment is an entirely different animal when doing so for off-site locations, such as maternity clinics, freestanding ambulatory surgery centers, or imaging centers. When buying for facilities outside of the main hospital, there are several third-party individuals involved in whom you must place your trust. That said, having too many hands in the pot often leads to mistakes due to miscommunication, among other things. To help you combat these errors, we’ve come up with four tips to keep in mind when purchasing capital medical equipment for off-site locations.
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