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Selecting a Healthcare Equipment Partner

Written by Concordance Healthcare Solutions | Oct 17, 2018 4:14:00 PM

Navigating your equipment needs can be quite a challenge. Selecting a healthcare equipment partner can alleviate stress and streamline efficiencies, but where do you start? To provide the best patient care possible, your equipment partner must be flexible and dependable. Below are a few points to consider:

  1. Versatility
  2. Expertise
  3. Service

Versatility
Healthcare providers work with project managers and materials managers as they navigate their equipment needs including:

  • DME Replacements
  • Diagnostic Equipment
  • New Technology
  • Logistics
  • Delivery
  • Installation

Patient needs vary by market. Your team may treat primary care patients suffering from common cold and flu symptoms, to treating minor injuries at an urgent care center or major injuries requiring immediate surgical action in an emergency room.

In order to provide quality care, your facility may need specialty equipment and supplies with minimal notice. Having a dedicated and versatile healthcare equipment partner, with access to an expansive equipment selection, is essential in order to be prepared with the equipment you need.

Expertise
Patient safety and experience present unique challenges for all healthcare markets. Working with an equipment partner that recognizes these challenges can help make selecting the right products easier by providing knowledgable equipment expertise.

With such a variety of product and equipment selections available, choosing the right equipment can be a complicated process. Keeping up on the latest developments and technology is also time consuming. Having a team of industry experts at your disposal helps by providing concise and expert service. The right equipment partner can be a valuable resource in helping you increase your product knowledge, discover and learn about emerging technology and help streamline the selection and acquisition process; allowing you more time to focus on patient needs.

Service
Once your equipment needs are selected, you need a partner capable of high-level service, coordinating logistics and assisting with delivery and assembly. In the end, your equipment procurement experience should seamlessly blend exemplary personal support with customized solutions guaranteed to help you fulfill your needs.

Ultimately, your equipment partner should offer a variety of services that deliver solutions and technologies that fit your individual needs, reduce costs and help you deliver the highest quality of care. When your equipment partner is focused on providing these solutions, they help you in creating efficiencies, providing excellent care and increasing positive patient outcomes.

Concordance Healthcare Solutions equipment experts can provide detailed advice on specific items. We can also help identify other equipment or service needs. Our experts can coordinate the most appropriate delivery options and get the best value for your purchase dollar. Have furniture needs too? Check out our blog about patient friendly considerations when purchasing healthcare furniture.