Focus on: Northern Montana Hospital's Biomedical Services.
This paper describes the Biomedical Services of Northern Montana Hospital, a separate corporation under the parent corporation of Northern Montana Health Care Inc. Located in Havre, Montana, a rural area of north central Montana, the hospital is a 120-bed, non-profit organization. The two BMETs work as part of the Engineering Department and service almost every piece of equipment in the building (approximately 1100 items), as well as a telephone system for another facility. This paper shows that a non-urban hospital, located far from any service company outlet, can be self-supporting as far as equipment service and maintenance are concerned.
D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009009:Montana