A preventive maintenance schedule for hospitals and healthcare facilities is the plan of checks, services and inspections that keeps the plant’s equipment running between breakdowns. Medical gas, operation-theatre air handling, standby power and biomedical equipment. Patient safety makes many tasks non-deferrable, and records matter for accreditation.
Below are the equipment types we list for this industry, each with its own preventive maintenance schedule and checklist, and the common utilities every plant has. The tasks and intervals follow common industry practice; the maker’s manual and site safety procedures come first.
Equipment in a hospitals and healthcare facilities preventive maintenance schedule
Healthcare & hospital
Water & effluent treatment
HVAC & refrigeration
Pharmaceutical & biotech
Fire protection & safety
Instruments, automation & laboratory
Compressors & compressed air
Fans, blowers, vacuum & ventilation
Boilers, steam & thermal systems
Heat exchangers, vessels & storage
Valves, piping & hydraulics
Buildings & facilities
Pumps
Power generation & backup
Cranes, lifting & material handling
Textile, paper, garment & printing
Oil, gas, power plant & environment
Electrical distribution & power quality
Common plant equipment in hospitals and healthcare facilities
Pumps, compressors, motors, boilers, chillers, air handling units, transformers, generators and conveyors appear in almost every industry. Their schedules:
The full list is on the page of equipment preventive maintenance schedules.
How big is the preventive maintenance schedule for hospitals and healthcare facilities?
For one unit of each of the 51 industry-specific equipment types in our library, the schedule has 303 recurring tasks and about 3,765 hours of work a year. Adding one unit of each of the 62 common equipment types makes it 670 tasks and about 6,533 hours. A real plant has several units of most of them, which is why the monthly workload needs balancing.
Build your hospitals and healthcare facilities preventive maintenance schedule
Pick your equipment in the free generator and download a 12-month schedule as an Excel file, with tasks, intervals and monthly workload hours. For the method, read the guide to the preventive maintenance schedule, and the preventive maintenance checklist.
To run it in software, see the preventive maintenance software module and maintenance software by industry.
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Frequently asked questions
What should a preventive maintenance schedule for hospitals and healthcare facilities include?
The equipment that decides output and safety, the tasks and intervals for each, the time each task takes and who does it, and a record of completion. For this industry the biggest groups of equipment are healthcare & hospital, water & effluent treatment, hvac & refrigeration, pharmaceutical & biotech. Add the statutory examinations that apply to your plant.
How many types of equipment does the hospitals and healthcare facilities schedule cover?
Our library lists 51 industry-specific equipment types for hospitals and healthcare facilities and 62 common plant equipment types, each with its own tasks, intervals and times.
Is there a free preventive maintenance schedule generator for hospitals and healthcare facilities?
Yes. The free preventive maintenance schedule generator opens with this industry selected, lets you choose your equipment and quantities, and gives a 12-month schedule as an Excel file.