Sunday, September 25, 2011

Planning Maintenance: How Improving A Healthcare Facility Maintenance Plan Impacts The Surrounding Community

By Arthur Crandal


Completing common healthcare facility maintenance tasks can often drag the hospital's budget southward. However, the positive impact on the surrounding community when higher quality materials are used is immeasurable, and can end up benefiting the facility's budget in the long term. How? Community members constantly want better care, more efficient care, and the most up-to-date technical equipment. All patient-care environments are evaluated on these criteria, and all can be tracked to the efficiency and effectiveness of a healthcare facility maintenance team and their plan.

Upgrade Existing Equipment Or Materials For Major Cost Savings- Many healthcare facility maintenance crews try to stretch the life of existing systems or materials for as long as possible. Consider having an engineer complete a process-improvement inspection to obtain a benchmark of the current states of all systems. The results of this inspection can then be used to form a plan on how to improve the overall efficiency and cost effectiveness of the entire facility. With proper planning, major cost savings can be found by making systems considerably more energy-efficient, or with better technology to speed up and improve patient care.

Types of Treatments- The difference types of actions one can choose will vary with the defects and extent of damage found on the pavement surface. The potential solutions can include surface seal coats, crack filling, slurry seals, selective dig-outs and patching, or full overlays. Within the use of surface seal coats, there are several to choose from. They include slurry, cape, micro-surfacing, fog, and rubberized chip seals to name a few. A fog seal contains no aggregate or sand and is spray applied to keep the surface aggregate in place. A surface seal coat is a mixture of sand and asphalt emulsion with other fillers. It provides a uniform black surface and protects from UV damage and reduces water intrusion. A slurry seal consists of emulsified asphalt binder, a graded fine aggregate additive and water and is applied by machines with pressure.

The maintenance planning schedule has some straining adjustments as you need to allocate resources, time, and manpower right on time. And you also need to prepare back up plans to replace in cases of emergency. If framed arrangements fail to deliver result, then back up resources should be geared to bring utilities on line in much shorter time.

Finally give your schedule some tweaking as such it leave all the elements, peoples, tools some room of flexibility to think best alternatives. Please keep these secrets in mind whenever you are working for maintenance planning scheduling.




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