Donnegan Systems, Inc has had the opportunity to work with many of the hospitals across New England and Eastern New York, and our proximity to Boston has allowed us to develop relationships with some of the most prestigious and forward thinking hospitals in the world. We have worked with countless facility managers, architects, designers, and healthcare professionals to deliver solutions that fit the needs of both the staff and the patients. Our solutions have been credited with increasing supplies on patient floors- minimizing the time nurses spend hunting and gathering for supplies, and increasing their time spent with patients. Aside from providing point of need storage right at the point of care, you can find our solutions in other critical areas around the hospital, like in the central sterile department.
The Central Sterile Department is a crucial piece to any hospital’s functionality and safety. It is the area where medical devices, as well as equipment and consumables, are sterilized for use by healthcare workers in all other areas of the hospital. The Central Sterile Department is a necessary foundation in order to make the hospital free of contaminates, and it is the first step toward infection and disease control.
Since this area of a hospital is so crucial to the hospital’s success, it only makes sense that the storage solutions used are the cream of the crop.
Each hospital is different, but most have their supplies centralized on each patient floor in a sterile supply room containing medications, materials, and other supplies that nurses use on a regular basis. Traditionally, these supplies have been stored on wire shelving and carts, but there is a more efficient way. Supplies can be more efficiently stored and organized using storage products like high-density mobile storage or FrameWRX – a completely modular solution containing color coded and appropriately sized bins. These products are designed and catered directly to each hospital’s workflow to provide the perfect solution for their unique needs.
In working with hospitals such as Mass General and Boston Children’s Hospital, we have come to discover many things. One trend that sticks out to us the most is that each hospital, although vastly different in how they choose their workflow and layout, essentially are all in need of the same thing. They all need secure, sterile, flexible, storage that can keep up with their needs well into the future. They need point of care storage- right where they need it, for when it’s needed most.
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