Critical Access Hospitals

Twenty-five beds. The same refrigerators, the same recordkeeping obligations and the same consequences as a five-hundred-bed hospital. What you do not have is a vendor willing to make the trip.

What the designation means

A Critical Access Hospital is limited to 25 inpatient beds, keeps an average length of stay of 96 hours or less for acute care, is located more than 35 miles from the nearest hospital (or 15 miles in mountainous terrain), and operates emergency services around the clock. There are roughly 1,350 of them across the United States.

The designation changes how you are paid. It does not change what you are audited against.

Where the gap usually is

Your logs are complete during the day. Nobody is in the building at 2 a.m. on a Sunday. If a compressor fails on Friday evening, it is found Monday morning — and by then the question is not whether the equipment failed, but what was in it.

Vaccines for Children

If your facility participates in the VFC program, continuous digital temperature logging is not a best practice you may adopt — it is a condition of participation. Calibrated data loggers, a documented calibration certificate, and retained records are all part of the requirement. Most sites meet it with a standalone logger that nobody reads until an excursion has already happened.

What we do

We read your existing equipment. Nothing is replaced, nothing is rebuilt, and no unit is controlled — sensors observe, and the equipment keeps its certification. Readings go to a private instance. Your data is not sold, not pooled, and not used to train anything.

What we cover

• Vaccine, medication and blood bank refrigerators
• Laboratory freezers, including ultra-low units
• Walk-in cold rooms
• Laboratory and CO₂ incubators
• Medical air compressors and oxygen supply
• Dialysis water loops
• Pharmacy, cleanroom and isolation room air

What we do not cover

This matters more than the list above, and most vendors will not put it in writing.

• Anything that measures the patient. ECG, vital signs monitors, pulse oximetry — we do not touch clinical data, and we never will. On patient monitors we read battery health and uptime only, never a waveform or a reading.
• Small portable devices. Otoscopes, handheld diagnostics and similar equipment have no continuous physical measurement to observe. There is nothing for us to monitor, so we do not pretend otherwise.
• Control. We observe equipment. We do not adjust it, start it, stop it, or take any action on it. That stays with your staff and your service provider.
• Calibration and preventive maintenance scheduling. That is asset management, a different discipline from condition monitoring.

Start with an inventory, not a quote

Before anyone discusses equipment or pricing, we need to know what is actually on your site. Our assessment form takes about fifteen minutes, is filled in at your own pace, and nothing in it is required except an email address.

You keep the written summary whether or not you ever work with us. It lists what continuous monitoring would cover at your facility — and what it would not.

Start the equipment assessment

Nothing is ordered, scheduled or installed at this stage. If you would rather talk to someone first, contact us.