The Importance Of Maintaining Inventory In Healthcare Organizations

Saro, you made some very good points regarding maintaining inventory. Maintaining inventory at healthcare organizations can have a positive or negative impact on the organization. On a positive standpoint, having the availability to inventory is good especially when there is an unexpected tragic storm or when more than what is required of supplies are needed for an emergency. However, on the other hand, spending too much on and maintaining too much inventory can hurt the healthcare organization financially. Often many supplies of the inventory have expiration dates, and if it is not used within the operation cycle, it can go to waste causing the organization to lose money. Also, another negative aspect to having too much
inventory is often it is hard to detect whether supplies are missing if there is too much inventory especially when the nurse fails to record the used supply in the patient’s medical record to be charge. In that case, the healthcare organization also loses money.

Kim McArthur