April, 2010

MEDmarketplace.com Virtual Showcase
by Barbara R. Fallon
South Florida Hospital News, April 2010

Turns Dusty Storage Into Revenue Stream

Hospitals, like every other industry, are not immune to the current economic distress. Belt tightening is the general rule in most hospitals surveyed. To that end, while hospitals operate like cities complete with a variety of administrative roles including mayors, police, firefighters, people relations, purchasing & warehouse personnel; obviously the ratio of clinicians to administrative folk must weigh heavily on those who save lives. Read more...

Spring, 2009

Idle Assets Move @ Net Speed
By Diane Laux
The Source, Spring 2009

If yours is like every other hospital in the country, you have storage spaces where equipment is dumped and forgotten; you place equipment in the hallways because there is nowhere else to put it; and, without naming names...some of you even have stealthy places to hide things when the Joint Commission visits.

There’s so much unwanted or idle medical equipment in health care facilities that no one knows quite what to do with. We’d love to sell this stuff, but who has the time to track it down, price and promote it, and find and negotiate with buyers? Read more...