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Specialty Clinic Moving Around Your Procedure Rooms

Vendors release and reinstall the lasers, scopes and imaging. Our crew moves consult rooms, recovery bays, supply rooms and offices around their dates.

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Specialty Clinic moving in the Sacramento Valley: Murdock's crew at work
  • Licensed & InsuredUSDOT 3421940 · MC 1416634
  • Locally OperatedChico + Yuba City
  • Sacramento ValleyChico · Yuba City · Sacramento

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Planning a Specialty Clinic Move

Every specialty practice has one room the move revolves around. For a dermatology group it is the laser room, for cardiology the echo and stress-test rooms, for a GI practice the scope reprocessing room, and for orthopedics the cast room and X-ray. Those rooms belong to the equipment vendors: their technicians release the devices, move or ship them, and reinstall and check them at the new suite. Nothing else in the clinic opens until they sign off.

Our crew handles the rest, which is most of the square footage: consult rooms, the check-in counter, pre-procedure and recovery bays, the clean supply room, staff lockers and physician offices. We build the plan backward from the vendor's install date, so consult and intake areas are set and labeled by the time technicians arrive, and our carts are out of their way while they work.

Procedure days are often booked weeks out, so the closure is settled on the procedure calendar long before anyone books a truck.

Who usually signs off
Clinic operations manager, with the medical director deciding when each procedure room closes
Timing that works
Planned backward from the equipment vendor's install date, with procedure days rebooked before the lease date and support areas moved first.

What typically moves

  • Pre-procedure and recovery reclinersFootrests locked and upholstery wrapped, each chair tagged with its bay number for the new recovery area.
  • Bedside cabinets, IV poles and privacy screensGrouped by bay so each station is complete when nursing walks the recovery area.
  • Consult-room desks, exam chairs and guest seatingKept as one set per consult room, with the physician's name on the tag.
  • Clean supply room shelving and packaged sterile stockSterile cartons ride on top, never under casework; staff pull any stock they will carry.
  • Procedure-room side cabinets and mobile cartsMoved empty with drawers taped, once the medical director releases the room.
  • Check-in counter and waiting-room seatingNumbered by section, so intake staff can start registering patients while the back rooms are still being set.
  • Staff lockers, lounge tables and physician office desksLockers emptied by staff; each office moves as one labeled group per person.

Access and scheduling

Ask the vendor for each procedure device how long release and reinstall take, and what the new room needs first: dedicated circuits, shielding for imaging, a sink or drain for reprocessing. Those come from your build-out contractor, and they set the earliest date the vendor can install. We schedule our loads around that date.

Outpatient buildings near Sutter Medical Center, Kaiser Roseville or Enloe usually want the move booked through the property manager, with a service elevator reserved, corridor protection laid and our certificate of insurance received before the date is confirmed. A single-tenant clinic in Yuba City or Folsom may only need the rear lot kept clear. On the site walk we measure the turns into pre-op and recovery bays, where reclining chairs need room, and pick a separate path for vendor carts. Summer moves start early so upholstered recliners are not left sitting in a hot truck through the afternoon.

Protection and handling

Pre-procedure and recovery areas hold the bulkiest furniture in a specialty clinic: reclining chairs, bedside cabinets, IV poles, curtain screens and visitor seating. Recliners travel upright and wrapped with footrests locked, and each bay's pieces carry the bay number. Consult-room desks and chairs stay grouped by room so each physician's consult space comes back as it was.

The clean supply room is packed shelf by shelf once staff decide which sterile and procedure-specific stock they will carry themselves. A crushed or torn sterile wrap means the item gets thrown out, so those cartons ride on top and never under casework. Procedure-room side cabinets are emptied by staff, then taped. We do not open or reorganize anything your staff have sealed. Scopes, lasers, probes and their instrument trays stay with the vendor or your clinical team, and plumbed or wired units stay where they are for the vendor's technician.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Lasers, ultrasound and echo units, stress-test systems and procedure lights
The manufacturer or equipment vendor releases, transports, reinstalls and checks each device. We keep our carts out of their work area.
Scope reprocessors, cast-room sinks and anything plumbed or hard-wired
The vendor and a licensed plumber or electrician disconnect and reconnect them. Our crew does not touch water lines or wiring.
X-ray and other imaging in the clinic
The imaging vendor handles removal, installation and any shielding or registration steps the new room needs.

Not part of our work

  • Handling scopes, probes, instrument trays or other reusable procedure instruments.
  • Opening sealed cartons of patient information or clinical stock; those stay under the practice's direction.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Specialists follow their referral base. Sacramento's cluster runs from the Sutter Medical Center blocks in midtown out to the UC Davis Medical Center area on Stockton Boulevard, Placer's gathers near the Roseville hospital campuses, and Butte's stays close to Enloe. Outpatient buildings in all three share service elevators, so the building's calendar is often booked before the vendor's.

The crew that shows up

Three Murdock’s crew members at the back of the box truckTwo Murdock’s movers carrying a pad-wrapped table up the truck rampTwo Murdock’s box trucks staged outside a single-story building in the Sacramento Valley

Specialty Clinic Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Our laser vendor can only reinstall on a Wednesday. What does that do to the rest of the move?

It sets the order. We move the clinic around that day: consult rooms, recovery bays and the front desk go in first, and the laser room is left empty and clear for the technician. If the vendor needs the room swept and the path open by a set time, tell us and we finish unloading the nearby rooms before then.

How do we keep packaged sterile supplies from being damaged on the truck?

Staff decide which sterile stock they will carry and which we pack. Our cartons of packaged sterile supplies are marked, kept upright and loaded above anything heavy, because a crushed or torn wrap has to be discarded. At the new suite they go straight to the clean supply room shelves, labeled by the shelf they came from.

Can our recovery bays be set up before the procedure rooms are ready?

Yes, and that is usually the better order. Recovery recliners, bedside cabinets and screens arrive tagged by bay number and are placed from your layout. Nursing can then walk the recovery area, check sightlines to the nurse station and stock the bays while the vendor is still installing next door.

We are splitting one specialty clinic into two locations. Can both be moved at once?

They can, if the plan says which rooms go where before packing starts. We tag every piece with its destination building and room, load each truck for one address, and keep the two groups apart on move day. The procedure equipment for each site stays with its vendor, which may need separate install dates.

Plan your business move

Tell us both addresses, the building rules you know about, and the dates you cannot move. We will send back a written plan and estimate.

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