- Professional hospital inventory services utilize special skill sets which are developed over a consistent series of hospital inventories. These skill sets are not learned by a single annual event, but rather because of repetitive activities weekly/monthly throughout the year.
- The leaders of a professional hospital inventory service have accumulated experiences which allow for error capturing and the knowledge base to insure all goes well. These hospital inventory leaders have experienced many different scenarios, problems and unique requests which give them a unique perspective which most people, including your hospital staff do not possess.
- Professional hospital inventory services free up your resources which in turn gives your hospital more time and resources to increase patient care.
- Utilizing a professional hospital inventory service saves overtime costs, regular payroll and the cost of training internal staff for a singular event. This is the major reason if you ask hospitals why they want to outsource.
- Professional hospital inventory services spend the time and money to develop and enhance tools specific to inventory and the uniqueness of the hospital environment.
- As your hospital's focus is on delivering the best care to your patients, the professional hospital inventory service's focus should be on their own skills, technologies, software, people and systems.
- We choose to utilize fewer personnel who pick this as their career rather than large numbers of people from temp services or for a single job. This decision allows us to create higher levels of productivity and yet still increase overall accuracy.
- We choose to work diligently on your files weeks in advance of your scheduled hospital inventory to remove/reduce duplicates, manufacturer naming errors and UOM issues. We then load this data into our system which we use to validate each and every entry into our system. This assures accuracy and relevant data. We even apply information to items which failed to appear on your Item Master.
- We utilize laptops instead of handhelds because it is not possible to capture all relevant data on ALL items including items which fail to appear on your hospital item master. Nor is it efficient to try. So instead of trying and spending weeks on the final reports we expend the time and processes necessary to capture all relevant data at the point of entry allowing us to have final reports in 3-5 business days.
- Hospital inventory services are divided into two categories:
- Premium hospital inventory services which perform some type of validation at the point of capture and deliver the final reports within a week or so. Unfortunately, many times these premium hospital inventory services also charge a premium, many times at a flat rate to insure they receive a minimum for their services.
- Discount
hospital inventory services which do little if any
validation and deliver final reports in 30-90 days. Discount hospital
inventory services deliver less some even advertise 'non-specific'
valuations (no real supporting data at an item level) in order to keep
their prices low.
Because of our
efficiencies gained through our investments in software, processes and
personnel we are able to keep our rates extremely low, like the
discount hospital inventory services. Yet we match and surpass the
service levels, technology, reporting and personnel of the premium
hospital inventory services.
- We have many services which are tremendously valuable to you and your hospital beyond the physical inventory. Services like Best Price Check which compares your hospital's item master prices against hospitals of the same size, capacities and GPO structures from all over the United States allowing you to compare where you stand and how effective your vendors, GPOs and distributors are at delivering the proper pricing.
