The Southern Regional Well being Authority (SRHA) has developed and carried out its personal Computerized Upkeep Administration System (CMMS) to extra successfully handle the upkeep of infrastructure and tools at hospitals and well being centres throughout the area.
The digital platform, constructed by workers members Rohan Smith, Toni-Ann Rodney, Ryan Dixon, Saede Nisbeth, O’Nelia Caballero and Jozané Bryan, overhauls conventional upkeep approaches, enhancing the upkeep, monitoring, and servicing of kit throughout the parishes of Manchester, Clarendon, and St. Elizabeth.
It’s anticipated to enhance effectivity, decrease prices, cut back downtime for essential medical tools, and help higher healthcare supply.
Addressing the official launch of the system on the SRHA places of work in Mandeville on Thursday (February 5), State Minister within the Ministry of Well being and Wellness, Hon. Krystal Lee, hailed the ingenuity of the workers members.
“Once I heard in regards to the system, I stored asking, ‘Who’s the supplier? Was it outsourced? How a lot did they pay for it?’ And all I stored listening to is, ‘They did it. They’re those that did it’… So, to listen to that this very system that we’re celebrating at this time that we’re launching at this time, was achieved proper right here, constructed by the group internally on the Southern Regional Well being Authority, is outstanding, now we have to applaud them for that,” she mentioned.
She famous that implementation of the CMMS “shouldn’t be merely an upgrading of instruments; it’s an overhaul of our whole method to tools administration throughout the area’s well being companies. This was a direct results of the Ministry’s Medical Administration Tools Coverage that was began some years in the past by a service-level settlement with the regional well being authorities”.
She knowledgeable that the settlement referred to as for preventive upkeep procedures and the strengthening of kit administration.
“Core points of this coverage embody coaching of technical in-house workers, obligatory consumer manuals, and upkeep agreements. Embedded throughout the coverage is that this CMMS system that we’re launching right here at this time,” she identified.
The system was piloted on the Percy Junor Hospital and is being carried out in any respect SRHA amenities.
Miss Lee mentioned she hopes that the system might be shared with different regional well being authorities.
For his half, Chairman-designate, SRHA, Michael Stern, famous that the authority is main the way in which by way of governance setting greater requirements for accountability and transparency.
“We’re going to include lots of the successes now we have had into procedures and insurance policies. Governance, to me, is an enormous deal. By the following two years, we would be the area in well being that can obtain awards in governance, as a result of we’re laying the muse for it at this time. It is a area that you should utilize as a benchmark. We’ve got labored laborious,” Mr. Stern mentioned.
