Savings potential for hospitals & clinics
But where are the opportunities to reduce or even eliminate costs in the administration and management of healthcare facilities? The design, management, and processes surrounding parking areas offer great potential for providing patients, visitors, and employees with simple and user-friendly parking. At the same time, process automation can reduce costs and make the mixed use of parking areas efficient and profitable. Below, we have listed the greatest potential savings for you.
Abolish barrier systems
One of the biggest cost factors is not only the purchase price, but also the maintenance of barrier systems. High maintenance costs due to defects are eliminated by digital parking space management. Parkers are recorded when entering and exiting via license plate recognition using cameras, so there is no need to stop at barriers. Doing away with barriers not only saves costs, but also prevents repair costs, lost revenue, and dissatisfied parkers in the event of system failures.
Reduce administrative costs
In addition to the immense costs, your parking lot also involves endless administrative work—and your team has much more important things to do. Automatic license plate recognition and digital management largely eliminate this effort: Illegally parked vehicles can be easily identified and tracked without any additional work on the part of hospital staff. At the same time, a digital parking system makes it much easier to manage mixed use. Whether patients, employees, or visitors – automatic license plate recognition and flexible conditions that can be stored for each user group make parking space management much easier.
Reduce paper costs
It is often the inconspicuous things that incur costs and can be saved—these include paper tickets, for example. With a digital and barrier-free parking solution, tickets are no longer needed. Everything works with the license plate, which becomes the parking ticket: it is recorded when entering and exiting, and the system automatically calculates the parking duration from the entry and exit times. Parkers can then pay by entering their license plate number at the on-site machine or digitally on their own smartphone. However, eliminating paper tickets does not only mean lower costs. Doing away with magnetic cards or paper passes also reduces waste production.
Case studies from practice
Porz Hospital on the Rhine
The example of the Porz am Rhein Hospital in Cologne shows the advantages that digitization of parking operations can bring to a healthcare facility: since the installation of the digital parking system, the maintenance and servicing costs of the previous barrier system have been completely eliminated. The associated automated processes have reduced the workload for hospital staff in relation to parking spaces to a minimum. Parking at the hospital has also become much more convenient and stress-free for patients, visitors, and employees. In addition, different parking rates can be easily charged for different user groups. The barrier-free system was integrated as part of a mobility initiative by the hospital, which was supplemented by subsidies for public transportation tickets and the promotion of e-bikes for employees.
"As a modern, future-oriented healthcare company, we have taken up the cause of sustainable mobility in addition to cutting-edge medicine (...)." - Arist Hartjes, Managing Director Porz am Rhein Hospital
More success stories
But it is not only the Porz am Rhein hospital that is benefiting financially from the digitization of its parking area with the Peter Park ; barriers are also a thing of the past at other healthcare facilities in Germany and Austria. "The switch to the electronic system is modern, environmentally friendly, and avoids costly service and maintenance work on the barrier system," says Klaudia Watzinger, commercial director of the Scheibbs Regional Hospital in Austria.
At the Arberland Clinic in Viechtach, Bavaria, digital parking management ensures that patients, employees, and visitors always have sufficient parking spaces available. At the same time, CO2 emissions are reduced by eliminating cars waiting at the barrier.
These were also decisive points for the modernization of the parking lot of the Schrobenhausen hospital. After the parking situation at the district hospital repeatedly caused discussions in the past, not only the management of the small number of parking spaces is easier, the economic advantage through the collection of parking fees is obvious: "We would like to invest the revenue in turn in the renewal of the parking spaces and in the promotion of alternative means of transport and electromobility," says hospital managing director Holger Koch.
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ContactContact us nowDigital parking management with Peter Park
The Peter Park is ideal for managing parking areas with different user groups, such as healthcare facilities. The license plates of cars entering and leaving are recorded in compliance with GDPR. The system calculates the parking duration and the parking fee to be paid in the background. In Peter Park , parking space owners have a real-time overview of their entire parking operation. They can view detailed, anonymized analyses of their parking lot and easily manage long-term parkers such as employees. Long-term parkers Peter Park also manage themselves in the Peter Park online shop, completely eliminating the effort on the part of the clinic: using verification codes, they can activate certain parking rates and store or change their license plate number. With a digital solution, parkers can pay digitally on their own smartphones in addition to using on-site pay machines. This supports compliance with hygiene concepts, especially in facilities such as hospitals and clinics.
Conclusion
A digital parking management system offers healthcare facilities the opportunity to benefit from economic advantages: On the one hand, there are no high costs for the purchase, maintenance, and repair of barrier systems. By digitizing the parking process and automating the associated processes, healthcare facilities achieve savings that result from increased process efficiency. By reducing operating costs and administrative expenses related to parking areas, clinics and hospitals save valuable resources that they can use for more important things: patient care.
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