by Shane Henson — July 29, 2013—ABM, a U.S.-based international provider of facilities solutions, announced this week that its ABM Health division has been awarded a long-term contract to provide clinical engineering and healthcare technology support services for Memorial Healthcare System (MHS) in Hollywood, Florida. MHS is the second-largest public healthcare system in the country and highly regarded for its delivery of exceptional patient and family-centered care.
ABM Health is part of ABM’s Healthcare Support Services business that joins together three healthcare services leaders—ABM Health, Healthcare Parking Systems of America, and HHA Services, which provide a range of clinical engineering and healthcare technologies, environmental services, facilities management, patient observation, food service, hospitality, parking and security.
Under the partnership, ABM Health’s technology solutions team will assist MHS in developing a clinical engineering infrastructure that can effectively support the assimilation of its advanced technologies. Particularly, ABM Health will help prepare MHS strategically and operationally to address complex and integrated medical technologies, along with reorganizing and professionally developing the MHS in-house clinical engineering staff.
The result will be a more balanced service approach using in-house resources and self-insurance rather than heavy reliance on costly manufacturers’ service contracts, says ABM Health. The new five-year partnership comes on the heels of a two-year consultative relationship in which ABM Health helped lay the foundation for MHS’s evolving clinical engineering management program.
“Healthcare systems across the country have a great opportunity to streamline operations and improve patient care while reducing the long-term costs associated with the proliferation of integrated technologies,” said Michael Argir, ABM Health executive vice president. “At the same time, these technologies are increasingly complex, and ensuring that they are implemented and operated in the most efficient manner is a significant challenge. We’re proud that Memorial Healthcare System has chosen to partner with ABM Health during this critical phase.”
Since 1974, ABM Health has provided healthcare organizations with customized solutions to fit their specific needs, the company says, and looks forward to working with MHS. With over 100 years of facilities solutions experience, ABM as a whole continues to serve thousands of clients across the United States and in over 20 international locations.
