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Optimize patient care efficiency with portable equipment management solutions

Sodexo Healthcare’s Portable Equipment Management Solutions (PEMS) can help ensure portable medical equipment is readily available, properly cleaned and disinfected, stocked and ready to use when needed. 

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PEMS program by Sodexo Healthcare

Sodexo’s PEMS program provides complete management and visibility into your patient equipment, letting clinical staff spend more time at the bedside.

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Simple solution, big impact

  • Improve staff satisfaction: Enable nursing to focus on work at their license level by eliminating time searching for and cleaning equipment and managing IFUs 
  • Increase productivity: Best practice workflows for cleaning and disinfection, rounding and stocking
  • Improve inventory management: Get real-time tracking of equipment to reduce shrinkage and misplacement
  • Increase safety: Enhance infection prevention with standardized cleaning in compliance with manufacturer recommendations 
  • Reduce expenses: Strategically manage equipment utilization to reduce additional equipment purchases and rental expenses


Our approach

  • People

    Highly trained, dedicated team focused on portable equipment cleaning and distribution; liaison for seamless communications with nursing staff and other functional leaders
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  • Processes

    Streamlined processes to improve consistency and efficiency; flexible stocking options: forward stock, central stock, hybrid
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  • Technology

    RTLS / RFID provides real-time tracking of equipment to maintain PAR levels; Service Response Center dispatches PEMS team to respond to requests; Task Management software is used to assign and manage tasks and track/measure KPIs
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