About Us
Please take this tour of NYU Langone Medical Center's Clinical Engineering Department
The appropriate and safe operation of clinical (diagnostic and therapeutic) equipment is paramount to the proper functioning of any health care facility. The Clinical Engineering function at NYU Hospitals Center is responsible for testing, repairing, and maintaining in proper and safe operating condition, the hospital's diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. To that end, the Clinical Engineering department will:
- Perform incoming inspection, installation, preventive and corrective maintenance; and special request service on medical equipment owned and/or used within the hospital and clinics in compliance with regulatory agencies.
- Review equipment purchase/service contracts and make recommendations.
- Review equipment requests for equipment that costs more than $20,000.
- Research equipment issues for Hospital professional and administrative staffs.
- Participate on Medical Center Safety, Product Standardization and Capital Equipment Committees.
- Conduct EMI safety inspections on new wireless technologies introduced to the Hospital.
- Assist in reporting of device tracking for SMDA.
- Receive and act upon equipment hazard alerts and recalls.
- Conduct device incident investigations.
There is one Clinical Engineering function for the NYU Hospitals Center and clinics, and equipment service records are maintained in the Clinical Engineering Department. The Medical Equipment Management Program covers the main Medical Center complex and off-site ambulatory care facilities. This MEMP covers the following in-patient and ambulatory care facilities:
- Main campus
-Tisch Hospital
-Rusk Institute for Rehabilitative Medicine
-NYU Clinical Cancer Center
-Hassenfeld Children’s Center
-NYUHC Ambulatory Infusion Center - 317 East 34th Street, 8th Floor
-Rivergate Epilepsy and Transplant Centers - 403 East 34th Street, 3rd and 4th Floors
-Hospital Programs at 660 First Avenue - NYUHJD Campus
-Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street
-Rutherford Place, 305 2nd Avenue
-Occupational and Industrial Center, 63 Downing Street
-Arthrofitness, 614 Second Avenue
