Houston healthcare facility adopts proactive maintenance plan

MD Anderson Cancer Center developed a facility renewal program (FRP) that addressed facilities and infrastructure needs


The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston decided in 2015 that it needed to change its maintenance mindset from reactive to proactive, according to an article from Facility Maintenance Decisions  on the FacilitiesNet website.

It became obvious when that the facility staff wasn't efficiently using its financial resources. 

"Often, we would react to an equipment failure, although it wasn’t catastrophic. Those failures render space unusable for a time, and we realized that we really needed to take a more proactive approach and have a multi-year plan versus going year to year,” according to a hospital official.

The response was to develop a facility renewal program (FRP) that addressed facilities and infrastructure needs in all MD Anderson facilities. The program launched in 2016.

Read the article.

 

 



February 14, 2019


Topic Area: Maintenance and Operations


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