Stores provides central receiving, warehousing and record archiving services for the health system. Transportation, conversely, operates a fleet of large trucks, vans and sedans needed to accomplish the movement of materiel throughout the health system. Both functions are housed within the warehouse located at: 7301 14th Ave. Sacramento, CA.
Stores provides the central receiving function for all shipments directed to the UC Davis Medical Center and for Medline shipments to be delivered to UC Davis Medical Group clinic locations. Stores is also responsible for the collection and final disposition of goods to be returned to vendors. Its warehousing functions include the acquisition, storage, inventory control and sale of select items, including business forms, used throughout the health system. Finally, stores is responsible for the warehousing and management of miscellaneous archive files and records.
Transportation serves the immediate surroundings of the UC Davis Medical Center as well as UC Davis Medical Group clinic locations. Daily transportation operations begin at 5 a.m. with the preparation for delivery of radiology and medical records files to the hospital-based clinics. It ends at 8:30 p.m. with the return of the same files to their sources. Throughout the day, truck transport and hourly courier services are provided within and between the medical center and medical group locations. Additional services provided include the management of medical center loading docks and the delivery of bottled gases to designated manifold and remote storage locations throughout the medical center grounds.