Check out this space age flexisteel, sterile and airy lookin' $800 chair.That's right. $800. Why? Why is my hospital spending $800 for a chair? I don't know if this is true or not, but I'm told that they are Joint Commission compliant. That reportedly the fabric police are going around looking for furniture that has crevices, cracks, holes. Anything that can harbor bacteria. And they will ding you if they find it. I don't know if this policy is real or not or if somebody is blowing smoke at me, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was. $800 for a Joint Commission compliant chair. You better not let Bobby Knight sit in it.
Yowza. That's a nice looking chair, but for that much money it better bring home its paycheck and keep me warm at night.
ReplyDeleteI hope your hospital is not like mine, where they are constantly cutting/overworking nursing staff, yet justifying super expensive hill-roms and flat screen TVs as being necessary for "customer sevice."
To micmic a famous commercial:
ReplyDelete"because you're worth it." ;-)
I can't confirm the model from this picture, but it looks very similar to the chair I've used in my past 2 jobs....let me tell you, JCAHO-complaint or not, this chair is absolutely worth $800! [PS- we had some very obese people at my last job that managed to crack the frame of the seat- so there is that.]
ReplyDeleteThat's the famous Aeron Chair! You might recognize it from such famous places as the New York Museum of Modern Art and the offices of hundreds of dot-com companies that had money to burn in the late 90s.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about JCAHO compliance, but there aren't too many chairs which can boast a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeron_chair
I may not always be a fan of the Joint Commission, but hospital administrators are likely to use JCAHO as an excuse for their most harebrained ideas.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see the standard that would dictate the composition of a chair for use use in a non-patient-care area!
I can't say that the argument makes a lot of sense that a hospital has to purchase chairs for TJC compliance. I'm sure there are cheaper ways to be compliant.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as an owner of one for the past 8 years, I can tell you that it the most expensive thing in my office (by a large factor) and it was worth every penny.