GH Schuller and Associates, Inc.

What are the essential services that support your standards of high quality care?  If your standards also include academics and research, are your essential services always available and reliable, even in an emergency?  Answers to these questions lie in how your facilities/utilities team manage these resources, their plans for contingency, and the overall effectiveness of the maintenance/repair in terms of efficiency and cost.

GH Schuller & Associates bring their own experience in large scale, multi-discipline facility management. GHS&A healthcare facility management, engineering, utility planning and design provide you with the management expertise to ensure your plant is running at optimum effectiveness.  Our knowledge of governing standards as they relate to your real world facility issues put us in a position to assist you in understanding not only the daily activities, but also the manner you need to perform them in order for those activities to comply with mandated requirements.  Your facilities management plan, the associated schedules, reports and other documents can be survey ready year round as part of your routine procedures/processes.

We examine your current state of readiness from a JC Survey perspective, talk with your team, and using tracer methodology offer guidance to increase how effective your processes are, ensuring that your facilities/utilities are avalable and reliable.

We work with your team through surveys, training, and oversight on managing:

• Utility Risks for understanding their vulnerability and redundancy
• Equipment Inventory is continuously updated and accurate
• Asset Reliability through preventative and periodic maintenance
• All system utility components: power systems, medical gas vacuum systems, water systems, natural gas, HVAC, and vertical lift systems.
• Testing in thermal energy plant cooling towers, water systems, and any other area where risks of pathogenic biological agents could exist.
• Isolation rooms are operating correctly and within the required testing perameters.
• Proper schematics with critical locations of shut off valves and key disconnects are up to date and that locations reflect proper labeling.
• Education and training, including proper procedures to follow in the event of a malfunction of disruption of any component within their area of responsibility
• Administrative procedures for shutdowns, work orders, continuity, emergency repair services, failure reports, and post failure procedures
• Emergency power requirements/sustainment.