Preventative Maintenance

Tailored Preventative Maintenance for Medical Equipment

Preventative Medical Equipment Maintenance Services

The best way to ensure medical equipment is always operating at optimum levels is to implement a preventive maintenance plan. Preventative Maintenance, also known as “PM”, is a tailored service that offers ongoing, thorough equipment inspections and functionality tests and routine maintenance, repairs, and software health procedures.

Because of the vital nature of medical equipment, preventative maintenance is critical to avoid unexpected equipment or system failures.

Depending on the equipment, tests may vary from simple functionality tests to deeper and more thorough tests that lead to extensive maintenance and repair services such as lubrication or moving parts, replacing old or damaged parts, replacement of gaskets and filters, and extensive cleaning of critical parts and areas of equipment.

Our ongoing maintenance plans can also be scheduled overnight or on weekends or on whatever days work best to optimize patient experience and not interrupt working procedures.

Medical equipment that is properly maintained not only lasts longer but is safer for patients and staff, and optimizes results. By detecting potential issues ahead of time, VectoRay Medical can help guarantee the optimal working order of medical equipment year-round.

Our visits are scheduled regularly to keep systems running efficiently and resolve emergency issues before they put your equipment down or out of order. Our Preventative Maintenance includes:

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Detailed system cleanup of the interior and exterior of the unit.

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Mechanical functional checks, and performance testing.
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System calibration to OEM specifications based on service manuals.

Tailored Preventative Maintenance Plans

We understand that every healthcare facility and medical practice is different. That’s why we offer completely tailored PM plans.

Testing & Preemptive Care

By scheduling routine testing and maintenance on medical equipment, we are able to keep medical equipment working at optimum levels and avoid unexpected breakdowns.

Maintenance, Clean-Up, and Onsite Repairs

Based on test results, we maintain and perform detailed cleaning and onsite repairs of medical equipment to keep it operational at all times.

Benefits of a Preventive Maintenance Plan

The core operation of preventive maintenance is to hinder trappings failures from occurring. This is mainly critical in a healthcare setting where patients, nurses, and doctors rely on your trappings on daily basis. Any failure could have catastrophic outcomes if it occurs at a mistaken time. As such, preventive maintenance is helpful to the healthcare industry in many ways, containing those listed under.

Complete Benefits

Reliable Medical Equipment
It’s critical for medical accessories to run reliably. By repeatedly replacing components before they wear out and carrying out daily tasks and inspections, your maintenance squad can hinder accessories from failing. This is opposed to corrective/reactive maintenance, whereat work is done after a failure occurs rather than before. By retaining your medical trappings in excellent patch-up, you’re capable to rely on it more repeatedly, which naturally feeds into the other advantages of PM over reactive maintenance.
Maintain Efficient Operations
After all, when a piece of accessories collapses, there’s a period of time when you ought to hold on for repairs. That may tend to delay procedures for patients in the cases of vital medical trappings. Moreover, the time it takes to diagnose and fix a smashed piece of accessories is repeatedly longer than preventive measures would be, which ultimately costs more in labor hours. Preventative maintenance lends itself toward more effective operations, mainly when your maintenance practices are well-optimized.
Reduced Liability
Poorly preserved accessories is also an operational care, but additionally only a matter of liability, mainly in healthcare. Also, providers need to meet many rules and regulations pertaining to the upkeep of their accessories, but they additionally tackle legal risks any time they treat a patient. If something goes false with their accessories and patients are harmed as a consequence, it links to essential losses, containing monetary damages and lost licenses.
Patient Well-Being
Ultimately, one of the most significant profits of preventive maintenance in healthcare is the well-being of patients. Patient safety is eminent, and not just for legal motives. The part of healthcare providers is to take care of the physical well-being of their patients. You desire to aid those who add up to you for concern, and they need to be qualified to believe you. Retaining on top of preventive maintenance is integral to that goal.