Annual Testing Requirements: Biomedical Equipment in Boston
Annual testing is a requirement for all new, used, and reconditioned equipment used in medical practices, dental offices, surgical centers, and hospitals, according to government regulations and healthcare industry requirements. It is essential to find a company that can provide you with all of the bio-medical maintenance in Massachusetts that you need to meet these demands and stays on top of annual testing requirements. Medical equipment management plays an important role in keeping track of all surgical and physician equipment, ensuring that nothing gets overlooked and that all equipment is recorded properly at the facility.
Outsourcing Annual Testing Requirements
The most common method for meeting these annual testing requirements for bio-medical equipment is to outsource these services to a reputable company. Stat Bio-Medical Sales & Service provides a wide variety of services for all the top brand names of new and reconditioned equipment. We work with many different types of medical and dental facilities, helping them to take control of medical equipment management for all of the bio-medical equipment that we service. In addition to annual testing, we also offer emergency repairs, preventive maintenance programs, and regular servicing.
If you are going to outsource the annual testing and servicing of dental or physician equipment, make sure to work with a company that can provide services for a great deal of the bio-medical equipment that you regularly use at your facility. You don’t want to have to work with multiple companies outside of specialty equipment. Too many companies can mean miscommunications and misunderstandings about meeting crucial annual testing requirements. The company that you contract with should be certified and authorized to provide all of the services that you need across the board.
What Testing is Required?
The annual testing requirements cover a broad range of yearly tests, including electrical safety, annual performance, and calibrations. Calibrations are extremely important to ensure that all of your dental or physician equipment is working as it should to prevent damage to the equipment itself or ineffectiveness in patient treatments. We provide these services to help our clients meet their legal obligations, as is required for bio-medical maintenance in Massachusetts and across the country under the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) code 99 standards.
The NFPA 99 establishes specific criteria for levels of systems or healthcare services based on the risk to patients, staff, and visitors. They are designed to minimize potential hazards, including fire, explosion, and electricity issues. The requirements are for all new and reconditioned equipment, and they address multiple areas to ensure comprehensive safety for everyone involved. Depending on the equipment, some of the requirements address issues such as installation, inspection, testing, maintenance, performance, and safe practices.
What to Expect
When you contact Stat Bio-Medical Sales & Service to provide you with services relating to annual testing requirements and ongoing medical equipment management, you can expect our team of professional technicians to offer a series of services designed to meet your NFPA 99 standards obligations. All equipment that comes into a patient care facility falls under the NFPA 99 requirements, which means that ongoing testing and maintenance of the equipment over its useful lifetime is needed. In addition to performing the inspections and testing for your dental, surgical or physician equipment, our team will also provide you with tools designed to help you meet additional NFPA 99 responsibilities for administration and documentation of all the work performed.
Medical equipment management can be an exhausting and complicated job, but with our Client Access Portal, we make tracking the repairs, servicing, testing, and inspections of your new and reconditioned equipment easy. You can track every piece of equipment in our system and gain access to all of the documentation you need to meet the NFPA 99 requirements. You can view the full history of all the work that has been done and see scheduling for inspections, testing, and service in the future. Our goal is to help our clients to meet all essential regulatory compliance by providing the data they need to meet all record-keeping requirements.
The services provided by Stat Bio-Medical Sales & Service exceed the standards required by regulations like NFPA 99. We also work to exceed the standards set by OSHA, JC, and CLIA. Give us a call at 1-877-995-1117 to speak with one of our friendly customer service agents. We can answer any questions that you might have about sales or service for new and reconditioned equipment, or schedule emergency repairs and servicing for bio-medical maintenance in Massachusetts and the North East USA region.