Comparing Preventative, Predictive, and Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Maintaining hospital equipment is a crucial part of keeping patients healthy and safe. There are many types of maintenance approaches that may affect cost, productivity, ROI, and overall efficiency.
How does your hospital manage maintenance on medical equipment?
Let’s review a few types of routines.
Cleaning Tips For Your Medical Facility and Equipment, Part 3
Now more than ever, it’s important for healthcare facilities to maintain the cleanliness and integrity of their equipment and space.
Cleaning Tips For Your Healthcare Facility and Equipment, Part 2
Now more than ever, it’s important for healthcare facilities to maintain the cleanliness and integrity of their equipment and space.
When working with EquipSystems, we offer your patients and staff the highest levels of cleanliness. EquipSystems uses an industry leading disinfectant for all surfaces of the equipment.
Cleaning Tips For Your Healthcare Facility and Equipment, Part 1
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 25 U.S. hospital patients is diagnosed with at least one healthcare-associated infection. But the good news is that you can control and prevent the spread of infection in your facility.
Medical Equipment Cleaning Success Story: Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston Methodist Hospital is a large, complex organization with more than 75 operating rooms (ORs) and nearly 7,400 employees. Established in 1919, Houston Methodist Hospital offers leading specialists in every field of medicine and is consistently ranked among the best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
EquipSystems In The News
Feel free to click the links below to read press on EquipSystems. How Low-Level Disinfection Prevents HAIs, Failed Inspections and Morale Issues_ 8 Points From EquipSystems’ Carl Runge and Chris Wilkerson …
Detail Cleaning can Build Teamwork – By Naida Grunden
Bringing a hospital environment from clean to super-clean creates a number of advantages: some of them are obvious, others are more subtle. According to Michael T. Kennedy, Regional Manager for a New England-based hospital cleaning service, one unexpected result of contracting with EquipSystems for a detailed cleaning at a Massachusetts hospital was an increased sense of camaraderie and teamwork.
That Third “S” – By Naida Grunden
Hospital staff members who are conversant with Toyota-based Lean philosophy understand the power of the exercise called 5S. This disciplined approach to organization helps workers transform their often-chaotic work areas into useful spaces, and their tools, equipment and inventory always at the ready. 5S is intended to reduce waste, in the form of time and motion spent looking for things, and error, in the form of supplies that are not perfectly ready for use. 5S is continuous: it never ends. It includes these elements:
