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Hospital to purchase over 40 new hospital beds
Three vendors selected and waiting on contract process
The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. is getting over 40 new beds, according to chief executive officer Esther Muña on Tuesday.
She said they have selected three vendors and they are still waiting on the contract to go through.
Muña said that they are purchasing two birthing beds from one vendor, 30 electrical beds plus 10 additional ones from another vendor, and two Intensive Care Unit beds that come with special type of cushions.
The bed purchase is made possible by the $2.7 million bond funds appropriated and signed into local law by Gov. Eloy S. Inos on July 9, 2014. Of that amount, $250,000 was given to CHCC for the purchase of hospital beds. The 10 additional beds from one vendor was made possible through the U.S Department of Agriculture Rural Development grant of $50,000, which CHCC received on Aug. 6, 2014.
According to Muña, the expenditure authority for the $250,000 was the Department of Public Works and the Commonwealth Development Authority did the certification of funds.
“We are excited to get these beds as soon as the contract is done and we have identified the three contractors already,” Muña said.
During the selection of proposals after CHCC put a bid out, a panel that included CHCC’s medical director, hospital administrator, and director of nursing reviewed the proposals from the three vendors.
Muña hopes to complete the purchase process by the end of November.
She said the 40 new electrical beds will replace majority of the hospital’s old beds while the MP100 cushions will replace the mattresses of those beds that won’t be replaced.
“I just want to let people know that we’re not just sitting on the issue of the lack of beds but we are actually doing it. The process just takes time and the beds are coming,” she said.
