Integrating capital planning and facility management functions with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is crucial for healthcare facility managers to not only efficiently and effectively handle reactive maintenance requests, but also to provide preventive maintenance on facility assets, according to an article on the FacilityCare website.
If capital planning and facility management don’t have visibility into each other’s data set, healthcare organizations can face significant operational inefficiencies.
Between these groups, there could be multiple systems that contain information for various facets of the organization. Maintaining multiple systems and keeping them in sync requires a significant amount of time and effort.
For these groups to attain alignment of purpose and resources, each group needs visibility into the data.