Equipment Lifecycle Services

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• Equipment Lifecycle Services

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Why UHS?

• Depth and Breadth of Experience
• Countrys largest provider of Medical Equipment
  Lifecycle Services
• over 6,000 U.S. customers
• 3,100 Hospitals (including over 20 major U.S.
  pediatric hospitals)
• 3,300 Alternate site healthcare providers
• 300 Medical equipment manufacturers
• UHS currently maintains the countrys largest
  fleet of movable
• medical equipment
• 150,000 pieces owned
• 350,000 pieces managed and maintained
• 1,100 medical equipment technical service
  personnel
• 100 medical equipment technical service
  personnel in Minneapolis area
• Over 60 years of experience in Medical Equipment
  Lifecycle
• Management
• Over 1,100 Medical Equipment Experts from
  finance, biomed, logistics, capital planning,
  equipment utilization, Q/A, IT and more.

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UHS What We Do UHS Helps Customers Improve
Hospitals Strategic Position

• Financial Improvement
• Improve financial viability through more
  efficient
• management of medical equipment
• Staff Satisfaction Productivity
• Improve healthcare professional satisfaction by
• allowing them to focus on primary care of
  patients
• Safety Compliance
• Increase patient safety and regulatory compliance

Biomed/CS
Finance
Nursing/Clinical
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UHS Medical Equipment Lifecycle Services

• The Process by which UHS assists hospitals to
  more
• effectively plan for and acquire, utilize,
  maintain, remarket
• medical technology.
• Creating greater operational efficiencies
  through seamless
• coordinated business process.

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UHS Equipment Lifecycle Services
Plan and Acquire The UHS team works with your
administration and clinical staff to balance
equipment want with need by conducting an
inventory of current clinical equipment,
analyzing its appropriateness and assessing its
value. With your input, UHS creates a tailored
technology plan that supports your business and
equipment management objectives and
goals. Manage Utilize At UHS, we work
hand-in-hand with your staff to achieve optimal
equipment utilization and productivity. If
changes in patient census cause you to experience
additional equipment requirements, UHS has over
75 district offices and the largest fleet of
moveable medical equipment in the country to meet
your needs. Maintain Repair Our service
representatives perform comprehensive repair and
preventive maintenance services, reducing
replacement costs and promoting safe and
efficient equipment operation. We help you
mitigate the risks associated with the use of
non-compliant technology by satisfying JCAHO,
ECRI, AAMI and other guidelines. UHS can augment
your in-house Biomed staff or provide an on-site
Biomed technician for 24/7 coverage. Redeploy
Remarket You can also count on UHS to identify,
purchase and remove your underutilized and
unneeded equipment. Turning equipment into cash,
our Asset Recovery services can determine the
fair market value of your equipment, analyze
manufacturer trade-in offers and recommend the
most effective option for equipment redeployment
or remarketing, whether resale, trade-in,
trade-up or recycling. After coordinating your
equipment removal, UHS can even locate and
provide selected equipment for your acquisition.
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Lifecycle Benefits
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UHS The Right Choice!

• National presence and expertise, with local
• strength and stability
• Long-standing, positive relationship with over
  
• 6,000 customers
• Full Lifecycle asset management approach to
• services resulting in reduced costs,
  improved
• outcomes and improved satisfaction and
• compliance
• The only organization that can offer a single,
• synergistic solution to equipment management
  
• challenges