Focus on: Multicare Medical Center Biomedical Engineering Department.

This paper describes the Biomedical Engineering Department of Multicare Medical Center (Tacoma, WA), a multiple hospital group consisting of Tacoma General Hospital, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, and Doctors Pavilion. The Department maintains over 4300 separate medical devices, with a replacement value in excess of $20,000,000, and has written its own software program for inventory control and PM scheduling. In addition to the standard tasks, this Department maintains the CT, Rolm VL PBX, anesthesia gas machines, and all of the equipment in Diagnostic Radiology, and performs environmental gas monitoring.