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Clinics, Practices and Labs Relocated Across Metro Vancouver
A clinic move has constraints an office move never does: equipment that has to be recalibrated, records that cannot be left in an unattended corridor, and a schedule measured in cancelled appointments. The plan starts with the first patient you want to see in the new room.
Working with clinics, practices and laboratories across Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, the North Shore, the Tri-Cities and the Fraser Valley.
Tell us the number of operatories or rooms, the equipment involved and your first clinic day at the new address.
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What Is In Your Practice?
The equipment decides the plan. Some of it a moving crew can handle; some of it needs the manufacturer’s technician on site before it is touched.
Dental Operatories
Chairs, delivery units and cabinetry, released and reinstalled by the right technician.
Imaging Equipment
Panoramic, intraoral and ultrasound units moved with calibration built into the plan.
Exam & Treatment Rooms
Tables, lights, stools and cabinetry moved and set up room for room.
Laboratory Equipment
Analysers, centrifuges and benching, with technicians for anything calibrated.
Patient Records
Sealed, numbered containers with a signed chain of custody at both ends.
Cold Storage & Samples
Fridges, freezers and specimens sequenced for the shortest gap possible.
Reception & Waiting Areas
Front desk, seating, signage and the practice management system. Learn more →
Equipment Storage
Held while a new suite is finished or a fit-out runs late. Learn more →
Old Suite Handed Back
Move-out cleaning to the standard a medical building expects. Learn more →
What a Clinic Move Involves
Before anything is quoted we go through the equipment list with your practice manager and separate it into three groups: what we move, what a technician must decommission and recommission, and what is old enough that replacing it costs less than relocating it.
Patient records get their own chain of custody. They travel in sealed, numbered containers, they stay in our crew’s sight, and they are signed for at both ends.
- Equipment triaged first — what we move, what needs a technician, what should be replaced.
- Technicians booked alongside — chairs, imaging and autoclaves decommissioned by the right people.
- Records in sealed containers — numbered, signed for, never left unattended.
- Cold storage sequenced — samples and medications with the shortest possible gap.
- Sharps and waste handled properly — through licensed disposal, not on our truck.
- After-hours and weekend crews — so the smallest number of appointments are lost.
- Certificates of insurance — for the medical building at both ends, filed before the day.
Why Clinics Move Differently
Some Equipment Is Not Ours to Touch
Dental chairs, imaging units, autoclaves and analysers need manufacturer technicians to decommission and recommission them, and warranties often depend on it. We book those people around the crew rather than lifting something we should not.
Records Travel Under Custody
Patient files go in sealed, numbered containers, stay with the crew, and are signed for at both ends. Records left on a trolley in a shared corridor is the failure mode that matters most in this work.
The Plan Starts With Your First Patient
Everything is scheduled backwards from the appointment you want to keep. That usually puts the move on a Friday afternoon through the weekend, and it is why the equipment triage happens weeks earlier.
Cold Storage Comes First
Samples, vaccines and medications set the tightest constraint in the whole move. Those units are sequenced ahead of everything else, with the destination powered and at temperature before anything is transferred.
Medical Buildings Have Their Own Rules
After-hours access, service lift bookings and insurance certificates are usually stricter here than in an ordinary office tower. That paperwork is filed as part of the plan, well before move day.
Some Things Cost More to Move Than to Replace
We will tell you when a fifteen-year-old unit will cost more in technician time than a replacement would. That is an awkward conversation to have on move day and a useful one to have at the walkthrough.
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Clinic Moves Across Metro Vancouver
How a Clinic Move Runs
1. Equipment walkthrough. Room by room with your practice manager, splitting the list three ways.
2. Plan, trades and hourly rate. Which technicians are needed when, the crew size, and the rate per hour.
3. Decommission and move. Technicians release the fixed equipment, we move everything else, records travel sealed.
4. Recommission and open. Equipment reinstalled and calibrated, rooms set up, ready for the first patient.
What the Crew Brings
Machinery skates, padded panel carts, instrument and cabinet crates, sealed record containers with numbered seals, blankets, wrap, floor runners and door protection.
Manufacturer technicians for chairs, imaging units, autoclaves and analysers are scheduled around the crew so nothing waits, and so nothing is disconnected by anyone who should not be doing it.
Appointments, Buildings and Lead Time
Most practices move on a Friday afternoon through the weekend and see patients again on Monday or Tuesday. Larger clinics phase it by department so part of the practice keeps running.
Six to ten weeks of lead time is sensible, because manufacturer technicians book further ahead than movers do. Medical buildings also tend to have strict after-hours access rules and want insurance certificates on file well in advance.
Medical and Dental Moving FAQs
Do you move dental chairs and imaging equipment?
We move them, but the decommissioning and recommissioning is done by manufacturer or service technicians, both because calibration depends on it and because warranties usually require it. We book those visits to line up with the crew.
How are patient records handled?
In sealed, numbered containers that stay with our crew and are signed for at collection and delivery. Nothing is left unattended in a corridor or a lobby at any point.
How much clinic time will we lose?
Most single-site practices move Friday afternoon through the weekend and see patients again Monday or Tuesday, with the delay usually caused by technician recommissioning rather than the move. Larger clinics phase by department and stay partly open throughout.
What about vaccines, samples and other cold storage?
Those phases run first, with the receiving units powered and at temperature before anything is transferred. Tell us the tolerances and the monitoring you need at the walkthrough and the sequence is built around them.
How far ahead should we book?
Six to ten weeks. Movers are rarely the constraint; manufacturer technicians book much further out, and medical buildings want insurance and access paperwork well in advance.
Can you dispose of old equipment and sharps?
Old furniture and equipment we can remove or put into storage. Sharps and clinical waste go through licensed disposal contractors, not on our trucks, and we will point you to the ones practices here normally use.
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Relocating a Clinic or a Practice?
Send us your equipment list, the number of rooms and the first clinic day you want at the new address. We will triage the equipment and come back with a plan.
Tell us the number of operatories or rooms, the equipment involved and your first clinic day at the new address.