Procedure to evaluate and control efficiently the operations management of medical equipment in the maintenance unit of a health institution

Maintenance management plays a very important role in the success of any company. As a consequence of this, in the year of\ud 2013, a study was carried out in health facilities found in the South Eastern Region of Jamaica with the objective of evaluating the\ud existing Maintenance Management Program for Medical Equipment. Among the results obtained, it showed that there is an inadequacy in the existing program whose principal deficiency is attributed to the operations management. As such, this work proposes a procedure for evaluating and controlling in an efficient manner the operations management within the Biomedical Department which forms part of the South East Regional Health Authority Maintenance Unit (SERHAMU), this latter is found on the premises of the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC), Jamaica. The method used to develop the procedure (GOMHO) is based fundamentally on the design of: a codification system to identify control registers and to record failures associated with each equipment, a system of placing equipment into categories and further differentiating them based on the potential hazard such pose on the human body in the event of an operational failure. In addition, this procedure gives the SERHAMU at the BHC the opportunity to calculate the amount of human resources needed to carry out efficiently the preventative and corrective maintenance work being demanded on the department. During the implementation phase, the results demonstrated that from the control procedure designed there was an improvement in the planning and carrying out of maintenance work and a better system of monitoring the activities that are executed. Also, it was evidenced that there is a 61.53% of the amount of human resources needed to carry out the maintenance actions