Trumpy
It is usually the maintence budget that gets cut first when money is tight.
Last hospital I worked on had not actually started their generators for two years. They just pencil whipped the forms every month. It was quite a fiasco when they had to be run for a scheduled outage. None started up in less than 10 minutes and 3 of 4 crappped out in about 15 to 20 minutes.
Needless to say our planned outage was rescheduled. The cost of fixing the generators and cleaning the waxy fuel tanks made the hospital board very unhappy.
I just hope they learned from it.
