Engineering | Health Facilities Management

Reliability asset management series

Moving from calendar-based maintenance to a holistic approach

Reliability asset management provides the tools to better predict risk and help overcome some of health care’s most stubborn challenges

October 15, 2021

Ryan Schramm, CHFM

Reliability asset management provides the tools to better predict risk and help overcome some of health care’s most stubborn challenges.

Infrastructure

No substitute for a good filter

Wake Forest Baptist Hospital performs real-world testing on its air handler system to improve infection prevention efforts

September 30, 2021

Bill Payne, CHFM, CFPS, SASHE and Werner E. Bischoff, M.D., MS, Ph.D., FSHEA

Wake Forest Baptist Hospital performs real-world testing on its air handler system to improve infection prevention efforts.

Reliability asset management series

Making the case for reliability asset management

How one facility transitioned from reactive mode to using preventive and predictive maintenance in daily operations

September 17, 2021

Tony Moiso, CHFM, CEM

How one facility transitioned from reactive mode to using preventive and predictive maintenance in daily operations.

Advocacy Adviser

Six lessons for managing medical gas storage

From visual inspection to checking accessibility of connections, here are six best practices for medical gas storage

August 27, 2021

Mark Chrisman, Ph.D., PE

From visual inspection to checking accessibility of connections, here are six best practices for medical gas storage.

Reliability asset management series

A journey toward reliability-centered maintenance

Is the health care field ready to embrace the benefits and challenges of reliability-centered maintenance?

August 20, 2021

Rick Joslin

Is the health care field ready to embrace the benefits and challenges of reliability-centered maintenance?

Field Report: Maintenance

Hospital improves air handling unit performance

The New York-based hospital called on air handler unit maintenance experts to increase coil performance 31 percent

August 11, 2021

The New York-based hospital called on air handler unit maintenance experts to increase coil performance 31 percent.

Compliance + Operations

Capital planning based on risk

Performing a risk assessment is a key step in planning an alternative equipment maintenance program

July 31, 2021

Taylor Vaughn, MBA, CHFM, CLSS-HC

Performing a risk assessment is a key step in planning an alternative equipment maintenance program.

Compliance + Operations

Applying AEM in the real world

Children's Health Dallas pulls on partnerships and resources to manage its alternative equipment maintenance program

July 31, 2021

Taylor Vaughn, MBA, CHFM, CLSS-HC

Children's Health Dallas pulls on partnerships and resources to manage its alternative equipment maintenance program .

Compliance + Operations

Efficiently managing facility assets

Seven steps for developing an alternative equipment maintenance program

July 31, 2021

Taylor Vaughn, MBA, CHFM, CLSS-HC

Seven steps for developing an alternative equipment maintenance program.

Infrastructure

Safely managing oxygen systems

Fire safety issues related to increased medical oxygen use experienced overseas spurs U.S. hospitals to reexamine their processes

July 31, 2021

Erik Martin

Fire safety issues related to increased medical oxygen use experienced overseas spurs U.S. hospitals to reexamine their processes.

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