The Christ Hospital Joint & Spine Center

The GWS-Christ Hospital Story Continues

As a leading healthcare provider in Cincinnati, the Christ Hospital was eager to expand its network and needed our installation services to help with a world class, 365,000 square foot orthopedic facility: The Christ Hospital Joint and Spine Center, the $280 million, five-story project.
Christ Hospital

The Christ Hospital Joint & Spine Center

The GWS-Christ Hospital Story Continues

As a leading healthcare provider in Cincinnati, the Christ Hospital was eager to expand its network and needed our installation services to help with a world class, 365,000 square foot orthopedic facility: The Christ Hospital Joint and Spine Center, the $280 million, five-story project.
Christ Hospital

The Christ Hospital Joint & Spine Center

The GWS-Christ Hospital Story Continues

As a leading healthcare provider in Cincinnati, the Christ Hospital was eager to expand its network and needed our installation services to help with a world class, 365,000 square foot orthopedic facility: The Christ Hospital Joint and Spine Center, the $280 million, five-story project.

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The customer hired us for equipment planning

  • We worked with the purchasing department to ensure that the equipment ordered met system standards.
  • During these meetings, we helped identify unnecessary equipment, and made recommendations for
  • We uploaded the list that resulted from these collaborative sessions into our proprietary software, giving real-time visibility to equipment order status. We also added different permission levels – view only for staff, and administrative editing for GWS – resulting in single-source accountability.

Result: The project budgeted $21 million for equipment, but the actual spend was $17.5 million – a savings of $3.5 million, or 17 percent

But we also assisted with installation services

  • We managed approximately 250 different vendors, and developed a creative warehouse solution to receive, categorize, and store inventory until it was needed on-site
  • We created a phased move schedule based on equipment priority
  • We proactively identified scope gaps:

The customer hired us for equipment planning

We worked with the purchasing department to ensure that the equipment ordered met system standards. During these meetings, we helped identify unnecessary equipment, and made recommendations for We uploaded the list that resulted from these collaborative sessions into our proprietary software, giving real-time visibility to equipment order status. We also added different permission levels – view only for staff, and administrative editing for GWS – resulting in single-source accountability. Result: The project budgeted $21 million for equipment, but the actual spend was $17.5 million – a savings of $3.5 million, or 17 percent

But we also assisted with installation services

  • We managed approximately 250 different vendors, and developed a creative warehouse solution to receive, categorize, and store inventory until it was needed on-site
  • We created a phased move schedule based on equipment priority
  • We proactively identified scope gaps:

“I noticed that there were eight data jacks and six electrical plugs in the central sterile clean area. During my on-site inspection, I realized that a custom-made stainless steel cabinet was going to be placed in that space, but the vendor drawings did not match the CDs. We caught this prior to drywall and finishing. The electrical subcontractor moved the jacks and plugs at no cost; the change only involved a meeting and proper documentation.”

–Mike Swick, Vice President of Capital Equipment, GWS Healthcare

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Move Management

  • We dedicated a crew with experience in healthcare facilities moves to deliver and place all equipment
  • We conducted room checks to validate proper equipment placement

Result: The move was scheduled for a four-week time period, but we completed it in just over two weeks.

With the time savings, we remained on the project to move in all non-medical items as well.

“The value Mike [Swick] brings is his very strong clinical engineering equipment background. He knows equipment well. He knows different manufacturers. He knows what goes where. And I know it’s being taken care of. The fit with GWS is that I know that I don’t have to worry about anything.”

–Greg Herr, Director of Healthcare Technology Management, Christ Hospital

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