Medical Equipment Planning That Works

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse · Oct 22, 2026 · 31m · transcript

Hospital projects do not fail because people do not care. They fail because the right questions get asked too late, after walls are drawn, power is set, and the budget is already committed. That’s why we brought on Rich King, a medical equipment planner with 26-plus years across clinical engineering, imaging services, and health system project work, to talk about what “good” equipment planning really looks like when patient care is on the line.

We walk through Rich’s path from Beckman Coulter and GE Healthcare to Siemens, Banner Health, and Sodexo, and how that mix of manufacturer, service…