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Choosing the right mover for medical equipment moves will save your company the risks that can come from improperly handling your sensitive medical devices & equipment. 

The Liberty Group with UniGroup Logistics provides highly specialized white glove transportation and storage solutions for the health care industry. We can transport even the most intricate pieces of medical and laboratory equipment. Whether MRI machines, dialysis equipment or patient beds, we provide the utmost care when transporting to your hospital, clinic or urgent care facilities.

Our professional medical equipment moving team will perform a complete risk assessment of your relocation plan and prepare full documentation on how your equipment will be packaged and handled. Your risk assessment will include the following:

Load Sensitivity

Timing of Your Move

Cost Considerations and Limitations

Personal Risks

Rigging

Load Sensitivity 

Every piece of medical equipment is made for a specific purpose and unique specifications to be maintained – even during a move. Weight and Size are the two most important determining factors to quote the specific tools needed to complete your move successfully and safely.

Timing of Your Move 

Timing must be determined when special equipment needs to be brought in to safely complete this move. In some cases, a crane may be determined to be the best method to remove items from the building, Crane use will require permits for parking, road closures, etc. The Liberty Group team will ensure that all these details are coordinated for you. Also, if you’re a working medical office you do not want to be closed for your relocation any longer than necessary.

Cost Considerations and Limitations

It can be near impossible to measure the cost of medical and laboratory equipment as you cannot place a value to the patients that may depend on that equipment for medical treatment.  Medical equipment is also expensive to have repaired should damage during relocation occur. When planning your laboratory or medical equipment move, it’s important to take into account the costs of loss of use of said equipment while not having it on hand for routine patient use, or the cost of replacing it. Another limitation to consider is whether or not you lease or own the medical equipment. If you lease it, changes are the manufacturer will want to send someone out to take a look at the equipment and give the green light to relocate it, or not.

Personal Risks

Many types of medical equipment have one or more hazardous chemicals that are used in operation. These risks to the mover including, the weight, size and how sensitive the equipment is, are all important to the amount of risk that will be assessed in the move.

Rigging Services

Rigging is sometimes needed for medical equipment of large sizes, but no move is too large for The Liberty Group! We can provide specialized crating and rigging for your medical equipment move.

Medical Office or Lab Move Planning

Moving medical equipment takes a significant amount of planning and every detail of the move must be identified and addressed in the planning stages. Each piece of equipment is different from robots with sensitive electronics to sub-zero freezers, but all have one thing in common – they are fragile!

Budgeting your Medical Industry Move

Moving sensitive, large, expensive equipment may be constly, but that is a known point. Properly quoting the time needed for the move, the number of personnel that it will take to transport the equipment to the truck, the timing to physically move and route through the building to the truck takes experience and is why you should only select an experienced medical equipment mover.

Our team can assist you in arranging:

• Air, ground and ocean freight
• Assembly
• Blanket wrap transportation
• Consolidation
• Customs clearance
• Inside pickup or final placement
• Install and de-install
• Lift-gate equipment
• Optimized distribution
• Project management
• Time or date sensitive assistance
• Transportation management
• Unpack and debris removal
• Warehousing

You’ve worked hard to build your medical business into something you’re proud of. You and your employees deserve to be treated with respect, and when you’re planning a relocation, you have a lot to consider. Whether you’re moving ten people across the United States or a team of top executives to another country, The Liberty Group Company provides customized relocation programs. Throughout the entire relocation process, our Professional Move-Manager will be your single point of contact. They’ll take all the guesswork out of your move, and help you choose and coordinate the right services for your situation—from pre-planning assistance through unpacking, setup, and equipment installation.

We’re backed by 50,000 highly motivated service providers at 1,500 service centers on six continents, representing more than $7 billion in annual revenues.

Contact The Liberty Group today to start planning your medical equipment move. 800-524-0567 https://thelibertygroupcompany.com/commercial-moving/#commercial-moving