5 ways to upgrade your healthcare elevator for safety and reliability

In a hospital or healthcare facility, it's crucial to minimize wait times to keep providers and patients moving through the building smoothly. But when you take an elevator out of service for modernization, you increase the pressure on the remaining elevators. A destination dispatch system can help solve this problem.

A destination dispatch system, such as Schindler PORT, works best when there are more than three elevators. Passengers are directed to an elevator based on their desired destination, allowing the system to reduce the number of stops and get people to their floor faster.

You can install a destination dispatch system before you begin other elevator modernization efforts. Then, when you take one elevator out of service for upgrades, the others pick up the slack. Once your modernization is finished, you continue to see the benefits of improved efficiency and traffic flow.