Stocking your new hospital
This checklist covers almost everything you'll need to make opening day a success. There's even a printable PDF!
To download a PDF version of this checklist, click here.
Jump to:Waiting room | Front office | Bathroom | Employee lounge | Doctor's office | Comfort or consultation room | Exam rooms | Treatment area, pack prep, and lab | Surgery | Hospital ward | Pharmacy | Other furnishings/equipment | Office supplies | Printed materials | Clinic supplies
Furnishings and equipment
- Chairs or benches
- Brochure display stand
- Table lamps
- End tables
- Wastebasket
- Recycle bins
- Books for kids
- Magazines and magazine rack
- Computer with patient education CD-ROM
- Coffee station
- Printer for informational handouts
- Client education handouts
- Computer table
- Workstation chair
- Courtesy phone
- Artwork
- Plants
- Water cooler
- Air purifier
- Chairs
- Clock
- Computers (minimum of two)
- Printer, copier, scanner, and fax machine
- Toner cartridges for copier and fax machine
- Credit card machine
- Paper rolls for credit card machine
- Paper shredder
- Phones
- Phone books
- Appointment book or scheduling software
- Business card holder
- Calculators
- Clipboards
- Pencils
- Electric pencil sharpener
- Pens
- Two- and three-hole punch
- Postage stamps or meter
- Boxes of tissues
- Petty cash box
- Locking drawer for each person who handles cash
- Fire extinguisher
- Wastebasket
- Recycle bins
- Paper towels
- Towel dispenser
- Soap
- Soap dispenser
- Toilet paper
- Toilet brush
- Chairs
- Table
- Wastebasket
- Recycle bins
- Microwave oven
- Coffeemaker
- Water cooler
- Refrigerator
- Coat rack
- Desk with locking drawer
- Pens
- Pencils
- Desk lamp
- Executive desk chair
- Side chairs
- Paging equipment
- Computer equipped with practice management software
- Printer
- File cabinet
- Bookcases
- Coat hook for door
- Fire safe or fireproof cabinet
- Pictures
- Plants
- Wastebasket
- Recycle bins
- Sofa
- End tables
- Educational videos or DVDs
- Reading material
- Bookshelf
- Television and DVD player
- Boxes of tissues
- Lamps
- Desktop computer central to all exam rooms
- Exam tables
- Rolling chairs or stools
- Side chairs
- Dog treats
- Magazines
- Cabinets
- Waste receptacles
- Chart holders
- Sharps containers
- Nail trimmers
- Stethoscopes
- Styptic powder or pencils
- Reflex hammer
- Eye wash
- Cotton-tip applicators
- Assorted gauze
- Alcohol
- Lubricating jelly
- Storage jars
- Gloves
- Feline scale
- Small exotics or gram scale
- Otoscope
- Otoscope cones
- Ophthalmoscope
- Indirect viewing lens
- Radiography view box
- Exam lights
- Binocular head loupe magnifier
- Thermometers
- Video otoscope
- Schirmer tear tests
- Fluorescein dye
- Assorted syringes
- Penlights
- Anatomic models and posters
Treatment area, pack prep, and lab
- Rolling stools
- Side chairs
- Refrigerator for samples
- Walk-on scale
- Wet table
- Waste disposal container (general)
- Waste disposal container
- (infectious)
- Dental unit'scaler, drill, polisher
- Dental instruments and supplies
- Safety goggles
- Endoscope and supplies
- Blood pressure monitor
- Portable O2 unit
- Electrocardiograph
- Test tube rack
- Hematology, chemistry, and coagulation analyzers
- Centrifuge
- Hemocytometer
- Unopettes
- Manual cell counter
- Calculator
- Timer
- Ultrasound machine and supplies
- Refractometer
- Glucometer
- Radiography machine and film cassettes or digital radiography equipment
- Lead gloves and aprons
- Patient positioning devices
- Radiograph developing supplies
- Gloves
- Masks
- First aid kit
- Crash cart
- Resuscitation bag
- Clippers
- Tonometer
- Ear lavage equipment
- Tongue depressors
- Thermometers
- Splinting equipment
- Culture media
- Diagnostic reagent strips
- Microscope
- Microscope slides, coverslips, stains, and holders
- Bacterial incubator
- Inoculation loops
- Lab mailing supplies
- Sterility indicators
- Laryngoscopes
- Biopsy jars
- Formalin
- Ethylene glycol test kit
- FeLV/FIV test kits
- Heartworm tests
- Elizabethan collars
- Muzzles
- Autoclave and trays
- Autoclave tape
- Ultrasonic cleaner
- Endotracheal tubes, stylets, and cleaning brush
- Endotracheal tube rack
- Feeding tubes
- Chest tubes
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Stomach tubes
- Stomach tube speculum
- IV fluid warmer
- IV poles and stands
- Fecalizer, centrifuge, and flotation solution
- Fecal loops, sample collection containers
- Nonabsorbent cat litter
- Urine collection containers
- Activated charcoal
- Gastric lavage supplies
- Barium
- Wood?s lamp
- Surgical pack wraps
- Surgical caps, masks, gowns, and gloves
- Disinfectants
- Surgical scrub brushes and soak trays
- Surgical instrument cleaner
- Suture scissors
- Staple removal forceps
- Vaginal speculum
- Surgical blades
- Surgical instruments
- Scrub sink
- Surgical drapes and towels
- Heated surgery table
- Surgical ties
- Portable suction unit
- Suction hoses and tips
- Crash cart
- Electrocardiograph
- Water-circulating or forced-air heating blankets
- SpO2 pulse oximeter
- ETCO2 monitor
- Body temperature monitor
- Blood pressure monitor
- Suture material and needles
- Tissue adhesive
- Skin stapler
- Esophageal stethoscopes
- Anesthesia machine and supplies
- Respirometer
- Anesthesia masks
- Waste gas evacuation system
- Infusion pumps
- Syringe pump
- Induction chamber
- Mayo stand
- Surgical lights
- Lacrimal cannulas
- Cautery unit
- CO2 surgical laser
- Radiosurgical unit
- Nasal oxygen cannula, oxygen hood, humidifier, or oxygen cage
- Oxygen flowmeter
- Water-circulating or forced-air heating blankets
- Towels
- Nebulizer
- Incubator
- Cages
- Litter pans
- Food and water bowls
- Washer and dryer
- Grooming tub and dryer
- Towels and blankets
- Catch pole
- Restraint bags or cages
- Pill splitters
- Alcohol containers to hold pill splitters
- Pill counting trays
- Pill crusher
- Prescription labels and printer
- Vials and bottles
- Pill guns
- Cleaning supplies for entire clinic
- Controlled substance safe
- Security system
- Vacuum cleaner
- File folders
- File folder labels, white
- Label maker
- Alphabetical or numerical tabs and year tabs
- "Pay at time of service" sign
- "Returned check policy" sign
- Phone message pads
- Scratch pads
- Standard-lined note pads
- Binders
- Sticky notes, large and small
- Cellophane tape
- Packing tape
- Staplers
- Paper clips, large and small
- Copier paper
- Scissors
- Glue sticks
- Desk calendars
- Pens
- Pencils
- Highlighters
- Erasers
- Dictionary
- Medical dictionary
- Medical and surgery reference library
- Vertical chart holders
- Large manila envelopes
- Letter envelopes
- Large rubber bands
- Return-address stamp
- Desk organizers
- "In" and "out" bins
- Time cards/clock or computerized version
- Letterhead stationery
- Letterhead envelopes
- Business cards
- Thank-you notes
- Practice brochure
- Promotional materials
- New patient information forms
- New patient medical history forms
- Prescription pads
- Insulin syringes
- Syringes (1, 3, 6, 12, 20, and 60 cc, plus 60 cc with catheter tip)
- Needles (25, 22, 20, and 18 gauge)
- Intraosseous needles
- Spinal needles
- Various biopsy needles
- Stick pole syringe
- Skin punch biopsy
- Tru-cut biopsy needles
- Sterile water, 500-ml bottles
- Sterile saline for injection
- Sterile saline for irrigation, six 250-ml bottles
- Urinary catheters
- Butterfly catheters
- Urinalysis tubes
- Jugular catheters
- Bulb syringe
- Blood transfusion kits
- IV infusion pumps
- Primary IV sets, secondary IV sets, and extension sets
- IV catheters (24, 22, 20, and 18 gauge)
- IV fluids (e.g., LRS, Normosol-R, sodium chloride, D5W)
- Male adapter plugs
- Penrose drains
- Porous tape
- Elastic tape
- Hematocrit tubes
- Alcohol wipes
- Safety goggles
- Wash bottles
- Bandages
- Gauze
- Stretch gauze
- Chlorhexidine
- Povidone-iodine
- Hydrogen peroxide
- Blood collection vials
- Clotting tubes
- Separation tubes
- Pipettes
- Sterile culture tubes and swabs
- Formalin jars
- Casting materials
- Lint rollers
- Roll cotton
- Stockinette
- Telfa pads
- Tourniquets
- Splints
- Wood?s lamp
