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Hospital’s Dolly System Adds Mobility

Midwestern medical system’s dolly eases logistics of moving supply racks within multiple departments; helps workers identify what is in the bin, scan a label or restock the bin.

Midwestern medical system’s dolly from Akro-Mils eases logistics of moving supply racks within multiple departments; helps workers identify what is in the bin, scan a label or restock the bin.
Midwestern medical system’s dolly from Akro-Mils eases logistics of moving supply racks within multiple departments; helps workers identify what is in the bin, scan a label or restock the bin.

The relocation of active departments within a medical facility is a daunting process. Just ask the materials managers at a Midwestern medical system with multiple locations serving more than one million patients per year. They discovered how challenging the process can be when they moved departments as part of a construction project at the system’s main campus.

A team led by the system’s materials management director was tasked with coordinating the logistics of moving multiple departments as the medical system expanded its main campus facility. The director says the team designated a floor to temporarily accommodate units that were displaced during the project.

Once a unit’s new space was completed, the department moved again. But the materials managers found that transporting the medical supply racks was more time-consuming than the departments can afford.

“The issue was that we used standalone, single-sided louvered racks to store supplies in plastic storage bins—and sometimes these racks were placed in hallways,” he says. “For each move we had to take the racks down, put them on a cart, and rebuild them when they got to their new location. It takes forever, and it’s very labor-intensive.”

So the team asked Akro-Mils, a North American provider of storage, organization and transport products, to create a dolly to make this challenging job easier.

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