The Readiness Group Inc., a provider of operational readiness for capital development projects in healthcare, has partnered with Habitat for Humanity Canada to advance hospital equipment decommissioning.

The partnership is a result of the two organization working together on a decommissioning event at the Niagara Health System in St. Catharines, Ont. This event was a medical equipment and furniture decommissioning event.

Decommissioning events helps ensure legacy space is cleared, surplus items are donated to community not-for-profit organizations and significant materials are diverted from landfills.

The two facilities were emptied within six weeks by The Readiness Group and Habitat for Humanity Niagara. The organizations successfully decommissioned and reallocated 2,400 non-clinical assets. This type of partnership model maximizes benefits to the local community and the environment, while generating funds from the surplus assets to support the construction of more affordable homes in Canada.

"Partnership management has become a critical component to delivering outcomes now expected in a typical hospital decommissioning event" said Patricia Santiago, Principal at The Readiness Group Inc. "Our medical equipment decommissioning offering formalizes and strengthens these types of partnerships so hospitals can provide additional benefits to the local community."