In an operating room, nobody has time for a scavenger hunt.
Surgical teams need the right instruments, sterile supplies, implants, catheters, dressings, procedure kits, and equipment exactly when they need them. An overcrowded supply room or poorly organized OR core can slow workflows, consume valuable clinical space, and make inventory more difficult to manage.
Spacesaver Storage Solutions provides operating room storage solutions for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, medical centers, and healthcare facilities throughout Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic.
From high-density mobile shelving and 4-post shelving to cantilever shelving, modular bins, cabinets, and automated vertical storage, we can design an OR storage system around your inventory, workflow, available square footage, and future needs.
Because in surgical services, storage shouldn't just hold supplies.
It should help your team find them faster.
Operating rooms have an unusual storage challenge.
You need a lot of supplies.
You need them organized.
You need them protected.
And you need them close to the people who use them.
That can include:
Spacesaver Storage Solutions helps turn crowded OR cores and surgical supply areas into organized storage environments where staff can quickly identify, retrieve, replenish, and manage critical supplies.
Hospital square footage is too valuable to waste on unnecessary aisles.
Traditional shelving requires permanent aisles between rows. Spacesaver High-Density Mobile Storage Systems eliminate many of those fixed aisles by placing shelving or cabinets on mobile carriages.
An aisle opens where staff need access.
The remaining storage stays compact.
The result is the ability to increase surgical supply storage capacity within an existing footprint or consolidate inventory into a smaller area, potentially freeing valuable square footage for other clinical needs.
Mobile systems can also be designed with appropriate aisle widths to accommodate supply and stocking carts.
Don't build another aisle if you don't need one. Make the aisles you already have work harder.
Visibility matters when seconds matter.
Spacesaver 4-Post Shelving provides configurable storage for surgical supplies of different sizes and quantities. Shelves can be adjusted as inventory changes, allowing healthcare facilities to modify their storage instead of replacing it every time supply requirements evolve.
Configurations can help organize frequently used items such as:
Glass or Plexiglas doors can also be incorporated into appropriate configurations to help keep supplies protected from dust while maintaining visibility.
Cantilever shelving provides another flexible option for operating room and sterile supply storage.
Its open design can improve visibility and accessibility while allowing the system to be configured around specific inventory.
Instead of trying to make every box, package, catheter, and surgical item fit the same shelving configuration, we can help design storage around what your department actually stores.
And when inventory changes?
The storage system can change with it.
Some surgical supplies create very specific storage challenges.
Catheters, for example, aren't exactly cooperative when you try to organize them on conventional shelves.
Spacesaver storage systems can incorporate specialized configurations such as pull-out racks and adjustable shelving to improve accessibility and organization for catheter storage and other specialty inventory. Spacesaver shelving can also support quick identification of supplies such as coronary stents, dressings, and catheters.
That means less digging through inventory and a more logical home for specialized surgical supplies.
Gauze. Bandages. Syringes. Disposable supplies. Small procedure components.
Individually, they don't take up much space.
Collectively, they can take over a supply room.
Plastic bins and modular storage components can divide inventory into clearly defined locations, making frequently used supplies easier to identify, pick, replenish, and rotate.
Bins can be incorporated with shelving and, for suitable applications, Spacesaver's EZ Rail® system to further organize smaller supplies.
The objective is simple:
A place for everything—and a storage system that makes that place obvious.
Cold & Climate-Controlled Surgical Supply Storage
Climate-controlled healthcare space is expensive.
Wasting that space on unnecessary aisles makes it even more expensive.
High-density mobile storage can compact appropriate inventory inside coolers and other controlled environments, helping healthcare facilities make better use of available capacity. Spacesaver specifically identifies compact high-density storage as a strategy for reducing wasted space in healthcare cold-storage environments.
For hospitals managing temperature-sensitive inventory, smarter storage can mean making better use of every cubic foot—not just every square foot.
The OR core is valuable real estate.
It needs to support rapid movement of people, carts, instruments, and supplies without becoming a parking lot for storage equipment.
A Spacesaver case study illustrates the potential impact. The hospital's Surgical Services Department replaced more than 70 wire carts with seven Spacesaver mobile systems, allowing supplies and equipment to be stored more efficiently in the OR core and remain readily accessible to surgical staff.
That's the difference between simply putting supplies somewhere and engineering storage around surgical operations.
Operating room efficiency doesn't stop at the OR doors.
Central sterile supply and surgical services must work together to keep instruments and supplies moving efficiently.
Spacesaver Storage Solutions can design sterile supply storage systems that help hospitals:
Spacesaver's healthcare solutions are designed around the broader goals of keeping supplies organized and accessible, improving inventory workflows, and optimizing available storage capacity.
Hospitals often have another source of storage capacity hiding in plain sight:
ceiling height.
Automated vertical storage can use vertical space to provide substantial storage capacity within a relatively small floor footprint.
Spacesaver Storage Solutions provides Hänel automated storage solutions for appropriate healthcare applications.
For example, the Hänel Rotomat® can be used to store surgical instruments in sterile containers and deliver stored items to an ergonomic access point. Systems can also incorporate HänelSoft® storage management and barcode-supported access control for inventory transactions.
For facilities with limited floor space and substantial inventory requirements, automated storage can provide another strategy for getting more capacity from existing space.
Planning a new surgical suite?
Renovating an existing hospital?
Expanding an ambulatory surgery center?
Storage planning shouldn't be the last box checked on the project list.
Spacesaver Storage Solutions can work with healthcare facilities, architects, contractors, planners, facility managers, and clinical teams to develop storage around:
Spacesaver Storage Solutions supports healthcare projects from storage planning and design through installation and ongoing service.
Every operating room is different.
So is every surgical inventory.
Instead of simply filling an empty room with shelves, Spacesaver Storage Solutions can evaluate your available space, inventory, workflow, access requirements, and future needs to develop a more effective storage strategy.
Our operating room and hospital storage solutions can include:
Increase storage density by reducing unnecessary fixed aisles.
Create adjustable, highly configurable surgical supply storage.
Improve accessibility and visibility for appropriate sterile supplies.
Organize small, frequently used medical and surgical supplies.
Create dedicated storage for catheters and other specialized inventory.
Protect and organize medical supplies and equipment.
Take advantage of available ceiling height while minimizing the storage footprint.
Maximize valuable cooler and temperature-controlled storage capacity.
Spacesaver Storage Solutions works with hospitals, healthcare systems, surgical centers, clinics, medical facilities, architects, and contractors throughout Virginia.
We can help with operating room storage and surgical supply storage projects in Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield, Fredericksburg, Ashland, Glen Allen, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, Petersburg, Portsmouth, and communities throughout Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic.
Whether you're reorganizing one surgical supply room or planning storage for an entirely new surgical department, we'll help you look beyond the room's square footage and evaluate how the entire space can work harder.
There isn't one solution for every operating room. Depending on inventory, available space, workflow, and accessibility requirements, a system may include high-density mobile storage, 4-post shelving, cantilever shelving, modular bins, cabinets, specialty racks, or automated vertical storage.
Yes. High-density mobile storage can be used for appropriate surgical and sterile supply applications. By reducing the number of permanent aisles, the system can increase storage density within an existing footprint.
Hospitals can improve space utilization by eliminating unnecessary aisles, using adjustable shelving, organizing small supplies with bins, incorporating specialized storage for unusual items, and taking advantage of vertical space.
Yes. Operating room storage configurations can incorporate pull-out racks and adjustable shelving for catheter storage and other specialty surgical supplies.
Yes. Configurable shelving can be adjusted as supply sizes, quantities, and departmental requirements change.
Depending on the application, shelving can incorporate glass or Plexiglas doors that help protect supplies from dust while maintaining visibility.
Yes. Spacesaver Storage Solutions provides storage solutions for sterile supply, operating rooms, medical supply rooms, pharmacies, laboratories, and other healthcare environments.
Yes. Spacesaver Storage Solutions provides healthcare storage planning, design, installation, relocation, and service for healthcare facilities throughout Virginia.
Your operating room is designed around precision.
Your storage should be, too.
Whether you're fighting overcrowded shelves, rows of carts, difficult-to-manage sterile inventory, inefficient OR core storage, or simply running out of room, Spacesaver Storage Solutions can help you rethink how that space is being used.
We'll help you evaluate your inventory, workflow, available square footage, and future requirements to develop an operating room storage solution built around your healthcare team.
More organization. More capacity. Faster access. Less wasted space.
Contact Spacesaver Storage Solutions today to schedule a storage assessment and discover how much more your existing space could hold.
