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By\u00a0Jim Nelson<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|<\/span>\u00a0April 16, 2020 at 6:46 PM EDT – Updated April 16 at 6:46 PM<\/span><\/div>\n
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TWINSBURG, Ohio (WOIO) – A Twinsburg-based company has been enlisted to help solve\u00a0nationwide shortages<\/a>\u00a0in medical equipment and devices.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the founder of\u00a0ReLink<\/a>\u00a0suggests the issue isn\u2019t so much a shortage, but rather a lack of proper inventory management.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe talk about these situations where people thought they had more ventilators than they had, or more beds than they had…They lost sight of them! They had them, they just didn\u2019t know where they were, they didn\u2019t know where they were stored, they didn\u2019t know what happened to them,\u201d Ray Dalton said.<\/p>\n

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His company specializes in redistributing medical equipment and devices, typically moving them from one facility to another, but they also repurpose them or help facilitate the sale of them.<\/p>\n

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Dalton notes that many hospitals lose track of their equipment because they\u2019re expensive to maintain. So, in situations when certain devices aren\u2019t needed, they\u2019re stored away because keeping them in active patient areas requires routine calibration and testing in order to adhere to regulations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we don\u2019t have an active plan to know where they\u2019re at, when they were serviced last, how to re-position them, we\u2019re going to run into the same problem a year from now, or two years from now. It\u2019s expensive to maintain devices you\u2019re not using,\u201d Dalton told 19 News. \u201cIt takes a lot of warehousing and technology, so what hospitals do is they just unplug them and push them into a warehouse and they forget about them\u201d<\/p>\n

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ReLink helps its clients redeploy the devices in an orderly fashion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWill we learn anything? I think we will for a while,\u201d Dalton said. \u201cI hope we do for a long time but I\u2019m not positive. Because economics drive a lot of the decisions we make long term.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are more medical devices in the United States today, than people who can use them,\u201d Dalton added. \u201cThe question is getting them to the right place at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dalton told 19 News that the company has essentially tripled its workload during the pandemic. He said they typically handle between 8,000 and 12,000 devices each month, but they\u2019re now handling 30,000.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur business was really set up for COVID like events.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The company is currently helping a hospital in Philadelphia move equipment from one floor to a new isolation area. Dalton suggests their work helps relieve hospitals of the burden of handling logistics during a pandemic — allowing them to focus on health care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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