Keys to healthcare facility maintenance excellence

Preventive and predictive maintenance, preventive maintenance optimization and corrective maintenance are important factors


A healthcare facility maintenance excellence program is a strategy of planning and assigning work, managing spare parts, performing and optimizing preventive and predictive maintenance, utilizing technologies to their fullest capacity, managing data, and tracking performance, according to an article on the FacilityCare website.

Preventive and predictive maintenance, preventive maintenance optimization, and corrective maintenance are important factors in this process.

Preventive maintenance is the key to creating a reliable and predictable operation. It can include typical inspections, predictive technologies and condition monitoring. 

The preventive maintenance workload should represent about 40 percent of the total maintenance labor hours.

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March 23, 2016


Topic Area: Maintenance and Operations


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