CLIMBING HIGHER TO THE NEXT LEVEL #3

NEWSLETTER #3

There have been many projections offered by different groups as to where Healthcare is heading in the coming years, but if anything is certain, we all need to have a serious decision as to our Nation’s Supply Chain. If we continue headfirst on our current path and not fix the real problem, most certainly there will be another event, just around the corner, similar to what happened during COVID-19 that will shut everything down once more. The one question on everyone’s lips - have we truly learned anything from past or are we simply slated to repeat them again? Problems that simply will not go away:

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• Designing facilities to withstand disruptions – it is apparent there is still no discussions associated with Materials Management Design-Development. Burn-out within staff continues to create shortages; along with lack of controls with software interfacing, has produces inventory accuracies, as to what and where materials actually reside within a facility. Unfortunately, designs continue to be offered with no new features; just carbon-copies of the past.

• Containing Costs - remain very high; with no signs of reducing outlays charges to the patient. Availability seems to be controlled by suppliers to keep pricing high (much like experienced with fuel charges at the pumps) – “supply / demand” – raising costs and for the purpose of profit-margins.

• Purchasing the right technologies for sustainability – everyone talks about AI as the “savior of humanity” to reduce the above two items but are we just moving in a direction for the sake of advancement without truly understanding what is represents (Terminator I / II / III / etc.). Must like software development, it can be a beast (Pandora’s Box) that will not go back into the lamp once rubbed. Progress is needed, but caution must also be considered. Automation as certainly assisted progress within our Nation and others, but there must be controls put in place to monitor; to ensure it they meet our needs.

 

In future newsletters, we will be addressing, in more detail, these three areas – so stay tune. In the meantime, know that we at RemTecH Associates vet everything before offering information to you to allow you to think before executing any action. We do this as your partner, not just another consultant in hopes that – what is offered will allow you to “climb-to-the-next-level” safety to produce true sustainability within your facility without causing ill-reversible-damage costing you more money to repair.

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CLIMBING HIGHER TO THE NEXT LEVEL #2

NEWSLETTER #2

For more than five decades countless Healthcare organizations have chosen to under-invest in the critical and necessary designs to support many of their Operational Supply Chain processes. Only now, with the advent of the 2020 crisis have they finally realized their oversight in not meeting their patient needs in a timely fashion. Why has this occurred? In short: culture, limitation within design processes, and the lack of desire to look at it from the standpoint of true sustainability.

​Healthcare has traditionally been late adapters; many industrial standards that have been adopted as the norm by other industries has allowed them to move forward. Healthcare, however, has always been about risk and how it would affect their profits over developing functional proficiencies within operations. COVID-19 altered everything over-night, showing them just how unprepared they really were to meet a “potential pandemic.” Their inability to simply listen to those who get their hands dirty (back-of-house operations) to acknowledge their skills and elevate them to departmental chairs within the decision-making process has produced a design-development oversight misalignment to what is truly needed to support and develop inventory accuracies. Back-of-house operations were not even reviewed as a critical requirement in design during project phasing. Characteristically, most facilities depend on 3rd party organizations to manage their on-sight materials. This decision was based on having limited in-house staffing skills through hiring and or lack of training of existing staff. It doesn’t have to be a pandemic as much as a weather event to bring to light, producing shortages.

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In addition, limitations in budgets have reshaped and hindered many bid documents that reflected band-aiding of operations verses long-term sustainability needs. Software capacities, equipment limitations, and material flows were replaced with “standard square footage calculations” as the norm for departmental space allotments. Architectural firms (based on limited budgets) rely on standard guidelines to ensure awarding; hence they offer building designs that are “only functional but not practical to support future demands.” Regardless of cost to the project budget, the supply chain process “must be part of project phasing”—including how to purchase, store, and distribute materials bringing the basement to the boardroom and or those who know how to help together as a team!

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If you don’t have the necessary manpower or information to design your facility properly, depending on just an architect to direct your future growth that is the definition of insanity, which Albert Einstein suggested. Don’t let past mistakes dictate how you design your next modification—you cannot afford to continue to move in that direction.

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CLIMBING HIGHER TO THE NEXT LEVEL #1

NEWSLETTER #1

Over the past few years, we have seen healthcare designs change - not to mention Supply Chain limitations and less than acceptable recommendations that will truly advance designs to offer sustainability. There will always be a different needed in approach between rural and metro facilities designs, but there are some specific and unique commonalties – one size doesn’t fit all; both must be advanced reflecting a Campus Master Plan.

Master Planning recommends a precise roadmap to determine space allocation based on functional usages. It also ensures that - your original conceived vision can be transformed into reality, but not jeopardize costs through undo risk producing project failure. Whenever you consider a new facility or envision a need in renovation, the only way to move forward is to – know what things work and what things don’t and in need of fixing. Such an approach requires help - to develop the proper baseline (benchmark). The  key to increase efficiency, advancing your quality of care to your patients, meet staff needs, not jeopardize your profit margins, and produce proper planning added members are needed in partnership. This integrated approach can fill the gap between the many different diverse functions within departmental areas, thus ensure a healthy workable cohesion.

Facility staff are accustomed to pulling down silos that exist between departments, but in today’s market most facilities still depend on Architectural Designing Groups to suggest project phase necessities. Third-party consultants, who are highly qualified to meet this task in design are not hired - based on existing limiting budgets. This oversight will cost more to fix in the future than address at the start of a project. Consultants can cross numerous stakeholder lines (administration, finance, facilities and management staff to offer specific delivery technological packages needed) to ensure proper interactions critical to critical functionalities. Consultants offer an impartial path (as a partner) helping your staff avoid the never-ending-rabbit-trails that soon produce costly overruns if not considered.

RemTecH Associates was developed to meet your unique conditions by becoming your partner in success. Allow us to prove it, by filling out the following information [Facility Assessment | Remtech Associates]. This is a free evaluation, that can set the stage for your future sustainability. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by filling this document out and forwarding it back to us to evaluate. It will address:

1.       Launching a clear vision to uncover current challenges and future unknowns

2.       Weigh the costs by defining specific equipment capacities

3.       Align your expansion needs with strategic planning

4.       Look at the bigger picture toward true sustainability to capture value to each purchase

Together we can build a better future and it only takes am email or phone call to start.

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