subject: What Is Stat Service In Medical Shipping? Whatever It Is, It Is Fast! [print this page] Your courier in NJ would like to build your vocabulary a little, just by one word. In TV shows like ER and House, you may have heard dialogue exchanges where a doctor tells a nurse to prep that patient, STAT! Get him some medication, STAT! We need a doctor, STAT! And you may have wondered what STAT means.
STAT means to act with no delay, because there is an emergency, at least in medical terms. And STAT is exactly the kind of delivery we offer for customers who find themselves in a shipping emergency.
STAT is the state we put ourselves in, voluntarily, whenever we have a customer stop by with an emergency shipping piece that absolutely has to arrive at the time scheduled, usually two hours after the cut off time from any other courier.
It really is OK, since we are quite used to operating in an emergency situation much of the time. One always has a customer who did not plan carefully, has a last minute problem or has an employee who dropped the ball. Your courier in NJ is here to pick up the slack and see to it that the emergency does not go beyond the panic button. After all, when a medical supplier or hospital facility presses the panic button, lives are on the line.
We ship any number of items in medical deliveries that require a STAT classification because they deal with materials that are fragile, must be temperature controlled, and, more often than not, are literal lifesavers.
Whole blood and plasma is vital for transfusions, but useless as a delayed shipment; organs for samples, criminological evidence and transplants are shipped with the necessary temperature control and quite swiftly; pharmaceuticals and medical apparatus cannot be delayed, since a patient may die as a result.
What else do we deliver STAT? Emergency items in floods, earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters, local, national and international, meaning that our couriers must stand ready at a moments notice to get the supplies through in timely, safe and efficient shipments.
New Jersey STAT deliveries do cost more, no question, but saving lives justifies the expense, we think. And our customers must agree because emergency shipping is our biggest business, particularly in inclement weather, when there are always snow and rain emergencies. That is why we have special drivers, temperature controlled vans and safe routes already worked out.
In short, STAT is one word we take very seriously.
