Helping the Hospitals

By Jimmy Burch

I have a part-job over at Ventures Business Services in Madison, CT. There are

several sectors in the building, but I am part of Medical Material Handling

(MMH). I work there three hours a day; twice a week for minimum wage where I

assort trays.

But I’m not just making sure that my trays are built in the correct order, I am also

helping lives. Connecticut hospitals rely on us to provide the tools they need to

help out with their patients. We are basically like a storage unit for them. For

each tray build, a person’s life is helped out. I usually finish up eight to ten trays

per work day. I am to place each and every item in its own section in the tray. I

also check the expiration dates to see if they can be used. We have a big board

up for everyone to see that displays the date which items cannot have their

expiration date on or before. If it is, we don’t use it. We at MMH ensure the best

of medical products are placed in properly.

When we finish a tray, it gets taken out and shipped over to a hospital in

Connecticut.

“We provide medical trays for the entire Yale New Haven Health network,” said

Jeff Spooner, a crew leader at MMH. He supervises the workers and helps them

with their tasks. “Each tray is for a different purpose and for different

departments within the hospital.”

I am very fast paced at my work. I went to Ventures about a year ago for a two-

day work assessment. I was given some of the less complicated and easier trays

to start off with. I sorted things very quickly and the staff were very impressed

by how efficient I was. It was not long before I was assigned to some harder

trays, which I too had nailed. They were so in awe that they quickly offered me a

paid position in the MMH unit. I began my paid position for Monday mornings.

Shortly after, a co-worker of mine went on medical leave; I filled in for his Friday

afternoon shifts, which I still do to this day. Just recently, I had to have my

Monday morning shifts moved over to Tuesday mornings so I could work around

my new college semester schedule.

I usually get assigned to the NICU 1 trays, some of the more complicated trays

with their products being meant to help out newborns to ensure they are

healthy. Basically, for each tray I make, that’s another newborn I’ve saved. The

way I see it, I’m doing a very good deed and it should increase my chances of

going to heaven after I die.

Jeff says the hospitals benefit very well from all the lifesaving medical trays

we’ve shipped out. “We are the only company that provides them, so they rely

on us on a daily basis, Monday to Friday, to assist them with all their medical

supplies.”

Ventures Business Services is located at 111 Bradley Road in Madison, Conn. And

they do more than just assort medical trays. They also have other units, one of

them is assigned to pack diapers. We at Ventures are all good Samaritans.