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Opening a new medical facility or remodeling a current office can be a stressful process.

Thankfully, here at CME, we can offer our clients a Direct-to-Site delivery service that can eliminate many headaches associated with these large projects.  

Our Direct-to-Site service manages all aspects of facility setup from start to finish, making it a stress-free and cost effective process; handling all phases of the project from initial orders, to delivery, final assembly and shipping material removal.

However, a stress-free experience and cost effective savings are not the only advantages to using our Direct-to-Site Delivery service.  Below is a list of the top 5 advantages.

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.

Cost saving advantages using Direct-to-Site Delivery:

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.

Success in design and construction of healthcare facilities is dependent on, among other factors, a strong focus on the patient experience, application of cutting edge technology, adherence to a predefined schedule, and strict control of the budget.  

With procurement consuming between 30% to 50% of total project funds, involvement of reliable clinical consultants and medical equipment planners is critical to the success of the project.

The hospital of the future will be significantly different from the hospitals we see today.  According to some reports, not a single administrator, doctor, or patient can clearly tell what these hospitals will look like. According to Gary M. Burk, Principal at Terrie L Kurrasch Senior Associate Ratliff, the future hospital won’t be a healthcare facility.  

Due in part to technological innovations and the general delivery system, amalgamation, consolidation, and the ever-evolving regulatory environment, future hospitals won’t be as richly utilized, nor will they be as resource intensive as the hospitals of today.

Five key features of future hospitals

1. Efficiency - of operations, optimal functional relationships, clinical safety, value for money, low upkeep requirements, and modern systems.
   
   
2. Sustainability – of design, reduced consumption of energy, and intensive 24-hour usage characterized by high occupancy rates.
   
   
3. Flexibility – for expansion and acquisition of new technology.
   
   
4. Patient centered care - where the family is considered part of the care process.
   
   
5. Healing environment - created from hospitality and art alongside science and technology.

When making a large capital equipment purchase for a new construction, major remodeling or expansion, you are under the gun to save money.  A big part of saving money is finding ways to save time.  

Capital equipment procurement can be made easy by using the skills and experience of someone who does it all the time.  At CME Corp we have those skills and experience. Here is how we save you time and money: