For providers deployed aboard a hospital ships, making sure all the right equipment is on board is vital. The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) completed a year-long project to optimize and ...

As the nation slowly digs out of one of the toughest recessions in recent history, healthcare providers are searching for ways to wisely invest in capital equipment that positively impacts patient ...

The need for continued cost cutting by hospitals is not news and most hospitals have already taken aggressive steps to drive down labor and supply costs. But as the pressure on revenue and ...

Capital equipment for the University must have an individual cost of $10,000 or more and have a useful life of one or more years, provided sufficient individuality and size exists to make control ...

When Scott Erven was given free rein to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of Midwest health care facilities, he knew he would find security problems--but he wasn't ...

Hospitalization can be a harrowing experience. Patients arrive seriously ill or injured, and in addition to whatever ailments they’re suffering, they must simultaneously find ways to cope with ...

Bed bugs. Broken equipment. Staffing challenges. Fewer patients. And a pile of hazardous waste. These are just some of the problems spotted by patient care ombudsmen during visits to Florida hospitals ...

Construction costs for the second New Providence hospital are 27.5 percent higher than those for the Minnis administration’s aborted PMH expansion because the latter did not include medical equipment.