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S & S Services Inc. is a full-service Medical, Dental and FF&E equipment service and installation company. We plan, install, maintain and support complete healthcare facilities, from exam rooms, patient chairs and delivery systems to imaging, sterilization and casework. We handle the whole job, from pre-planning and site visits to receiving containers at the dock, installing and calibrating every unit, and delivering a final signed installation report. Once a facility is open, we keep it running with contract Biomedical Preventive Maintenance (PM), manufacturer (OEM) service routes and large-scale PM sweeps. We also relocate entire clinics and deliver complete FF&E for hospitals, staff housing and offices. Our teams have worked in all 50 states and 27 countries, serving every branch of the Military, Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC), Medical and Dental Universities and Schools, the Indian Health Service and Alaska Native Healthcare (including SEARHC and Norton Sound Health Corporation), Federal Prisons, Job Corps, State and Local Health Facilities, and Private Practices. From fly-in villages on the Bering Sea to the clinic inside the White House, there is no job too remote or too demanding.
Our technicians are professional, uniformed and federally background-checked, and they work with a speed and precision that set the standard for our industry. Every project is completed to specification, done right the first time, and handed over ready to open its doors.
Every branch of the U.S. military, federal and state health agencies, universities, private practices, and the manufacturers and dealers who set the industry standard.
Team first, high-intensity travel, long days, and the same customers calling for the next phase.
Speed and accuracy are the reason our customers hire us again. Our teams show up prepared, move through a building with a plan, and turn rooms over faster than any team in this industry, with every unit set to specification, calibrated and checked off. We are a team-oriented company: nobody works alone, the whole team owns the whole job, and the newest technician is trained by the ones who have been doing this for twenty years. Our travel is high intensity and our workdays are long. A team can fly from a dental school on the East Coast to a village on the Bering Sea in the same week, land, unload the containers and keep working until the rooms are done. We get it done in the worst environments there are: active construction sites, secure federal property, fly-in villages, barge schedules, two floors with no elevator and a winter storm outside. The job still finishes on time, and it finishes right.
Professionalism is not a slogan here; it is a hiring standard. Every technician is professional, wears the S & S uniform, and has passed a federal criminal background check. We do not allow a single infraction. That is why our people are badged into VA medical centers, military bases, federal prisons and the White House, and why a facility manager who has used us once knows exactly what will walk through the door the next time. Most of our work is repeat business: the same dealers, manufacturers, health systems, universities and federal facilities call us back for the next phase, the next building and the next clinic, year after year.
A sample of our installation history, drawn from twenty years of project records and plotted city by city. Every marker is a facility our teams have installed, serviced or relocated.
Chairside to mechanical room, every operatory delivered complete.
Our founders both got their start in the U.S. Navy and have been installing medical and dental clinics since 1997. S & S is an independent company that manufacturers and dealers hire for their most demanding installations. We hold multiple authorized installation and repair services agreements with the industry's leading equipment manufacturers and dealers, which means their factory standards, warranty requirements and product training are built into every install we do.
We do everything it takes to build out a fully functional dental clinic. From the pre-planning and site visits through the dental chair and delivery system, the X-ray, the cabinets, the sterilization center, the mechanical room and everything in between, our technicians plan it, install it, connect it, calibrate it and turn it over ready for patients. One-room replacements, 32-chair clinic floors, 400-room dental schools and everything in between. When it has to be done right, S & S Services Inc. is the company to call.
Owner-furnished equipment received, placed and commissioned to the equipment plan.
Our medical division runs on the same full-service model as our dental work, from a single exam room to an entire hospital. When a new facility arrives in shipping containers, phased to the construction schedule, our team receives each phase at the loading dock, inventories it against the manifest, stages and uncrates it, places and anchors every item to the architect's room plan, makes the final connections, and certifies it calibrated and operational. Items shifted to later phases are stored, photographed and documented so nothing is lost between trips, and every phase closes with a signed installation report and photo record.
That covers emergency, surgery and anesthesia, pre- and post-op, central sterile, X-ray, CT and MRI, infusion, pharmacy, lab, rehab and dental departments, with equipment from Midmark, Hillrom / Welch Allyn, Stryker, Pedigo, Blickman, Dentsply Sirona and dozens of other manufacturers on a single job. It also covers the everyday medical work: integrated wall diagnostic systems and wall transformers, vital-signs monitors, exam and procedure tables, hospital casework, program build-outs and hospital relocation move plans, whether owner-furnished (OFCI) or dealer-sold.
A large share of our medical work is in Alaska, much of it in places you can only reach by air, sea or barge, and once a facility is open the same team comes back for its preventive maintenance, warranty and service work through S & S Biomedical Services. See Alaska Direct for the work we run from inside the state.
We are not resident staff and we do not replace your biomedical department. We are a scheduled PM service: CBET-certified technicians, one or a team depending on the job, complete your preventive-maintenance list on a fixed calendar, track the age and life expectancy of every device as it is inspected, and give you replacement and purchase options.
Every biomed shop is being asked to hold 100 percent scheduled-maintenance completion while the people who do that work retire faster than they can be replaced. When a shop is short, PM is what slides: repairs cannot wait, OEM visits need escorts, the emergency comes first, and the overdue list is what the next survey finds. We take the scheduled list, complete it to the manufacturer's interval with calibrated instruments, close every work order in your CMMS before we leave, and hand you a report built for the surveyor. Your team keeps everything that needs judgment and a fast response.
Two ways to run it: a monthly program on a fixed block of days, or a PM blitz once or twice a year that resets the whole rotation. Both are a fixed price with travel included, staffed to your inventory, and delivered by the teams that have installed medical and dental equipment in all 50 states since 2006.
Our technicians on your site for a set block each month, sized to your PM schedule and locked on your calendar 90 days ahead. Scheduled PMs first, then high-risk and life-support items, then electrical-safety sweeps.
A technician or a team completes the entire non-OEM PM inventory in one scheduled block and resets every interval. If the list takes five days we are there five days; if it takes a month we are there a month, and we add people when you need it done faster.
Three ways to clear a PM backlog: add headcount, re-solicit a contract technician every year, or buy the finished PMs from us on a fixed calendar. Only one puts nothing new on your payroll, your HR desk or your procurement calendar.
An $85,000 base salary is the smallest part of a hire. Hospital benefit loads run 43 to 60 percent of wages before tools, calibration, paid leave, injuries, supervision and turnover, and the position still delivers only about 1,800 productive hours a year. A contract technician costs 1.5 to 1.7 times pay, and the solicitation that lands one takes roughly 80 days and 55 staff hours, every year. A scheduled PM program carries none of that: our technicians arrive on a calendar you approved, with analyzers we own, under our insurance and our workers' compensation, and it is competed once as a base year plus options.
| Line item | Low estimate | High estimate | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base salary (same in both columns) | $85,000 | $85,000 | Fixed starting point; the range is in the costs added on top |
| Payroll taxes and workers' compensation | $7,600 | $11,600 | FICA, FUTA/SUTA, WC |
| Health insurance, employer share | $7,885 | $20,143 | KFF 2025, single to family |
| Retirement and supplemental pay | $7,930 | $7,930 | BLS hospital averages |
| Loaded compensation | $108,400 (1.28×) | $124,700 (1.47×) | BLS and MIT ranges |
| Test equipment, calibration, training | $6,500 | $15,400 | Two Fluke analyzers alone $24,350 |
| Absence, supervision and injury exposure | $10,850 | $11,800 | Circadian; Robert Half; BLS; NSC |
| Recruiting and turnover risk, annualized | $2,000 | $22,100 | SHRM; Gallup; CAP |
| All-in annual cost of the position | ≈ $127,800 | ≈ $174,000 | for about 1,792 productive hours |
| Cost per productive hour | ≈ $71 | ≈ $97 | before the 3-month vacancy gap |
That is a typical small-hospital program, about four-tenths of a technician. You cannot hire four-tenths of a person, so the PM work costs $183 to $249 an hour unless the other 1,100 hours find productive use. Overtime from existing staff runs about $42,900; a contract technician $43,000 to $49,000 plus the annual solicitation. A fixed-fee PM program buys the same 700 finished hours with none of the carrying cost.
In Alaska the gap is wider: landing one technician in Fairbanks currently takes a $20,000 retention bonus, $7,500 in relocation and 90 days of housing.
Sources: BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (2026) · BLS paid-leave and injury tables · KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey (2025) · SHRM Recruiting Benchmarking (2025) · AAMI / TechNation HTM staffing surveys (2025) · National Safety Council (2024) · Gallup · Center for American Progress · Euna Solutions · FAR Subpart 17.2 · GovSci and PartsSource list prices (2026)
An annual Equipment Lifecycle & Replacement Report built from the PM data, scored by evidence instead of birthdays, with purchase options and budgetary quotes on every red-list line: new, certified pre-owned, lease or grant-funded.
Every federal and tribal health system is required to keep an equipment replacement plan, and almost none have the data to do it. GAO found end-of-life dates missing on up to 53 percent of Indian Health Service records and acquisition dates on up to 90 percent; the VA Inspector General found 84 percent of sampled purchases skipped the five-year planning process. During PM rounds we validate the inventory, score each asset on age against the AHA and ECRI life tables, end-of-support status, parts availability, repair history, open recalls and clinical criticality, and deliver a replace, upgrade, retain or retire call for every device with a target fiscal year, a five- and ten-year funding curve, and two or three budgetary quotes on every line we recommend replacing, packaged to the form your system already uses.
The national programs sell a full outsource built for 150-bed systems. We sell the missing days to the shop you already have, at a size a 25-bed hospital can carry.
No biomed vendor maintains dental chairs and compressors; no dental vendor maintains monitors and pumps. Our technicians do both.
Twenty years at VA, DoD, IHS, tribal and university facilities. Background checks, site access and escort rules are routine for us.
AAMI CBET-certified technicians; analyzers calibrated annually by an accredited lab; every record names the instrument used.
Airfare, per diem, weather allowances and bush-carrier limits are inside the fixed price, so remote and Alaska sites get the same program as a city hospital.
Incoming inspection, acceptance testing and year-one PM from the company that installed the equipment, which is the sustainability plan the new rural equipment grants require.
Our third division: FF&E installation for healthcare, housing, hospitality, senior living and commercial projects.
FF&E is our third division, and we are bringing twenty years of clinic-grade installation discipline to the whole FF&E market. Staff housing and apartments, hotels and hospitality, senior living, multi-family, student housing, offices and clinics: if it ships in a container and has to end up assembled, mounted, connected and checked off in a room, we install it. Furniture, casework, solid-surface countertops, appliances, TVs and mounts, window treatments, mirrors, beds, sofas and tables. We are the installation team that procurement firms, FF&E dealers, general contractors and owners hand the building to when the trucks arrive.
We work from the spec book and the manifest. Every piece is received at the dock and reconciled against the shipping list, staged by building and floor, carried in by our own team, assembled and placed to the room plan, photographed and checked off on a live project site the customer can open from anywhere. Overages, damage and back-orders are documented the same day, and a signed installation report closes the job. Owner-furnished (OFCI) or dealer-sold, one office or a 42-apartment building, a hotel floor or a hospital wing, in the lower 48 or off the road system in Alaska, the process is the same, and the team is the same one that installs operating rooms and dental schools on schedule.
Badged, escorted and on schedule on federal property since 2006.
Most of our two decades have been spent on federal and state property: every branch of the U.S. military at home and overseas, Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC), the Indian Health Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, ICE, Job Corps centers, state and county health departments and public hospitals, state correctional systems, and the highest-security addresses in the country. We have also installed clinics for non-profit and mission health programs such as Operation Blessing. We know the badge process, the escort rules, the tool-count sheets and the certified-payroll reporting, and we build them into the schedule instead of letting them slow it down.
Any equipment. Any facility set-up. State or federal.
Installation names are shown as currently designated by the Department of Defense. Navy and Marine Corps hospitals, clinics and ships are listed above under Military and Navy ships.
Hundreds of operatories, one academic calendar.
A dental school installation is a different animal: hundreds of operatories on a fixed academic calendar, simulation labs full of manikins and monitors, faculty practices, and a facilities office that needs everything documented, all of it due before students walk in. Massive schools need to be completed fast and efficiently, and no other team in the industry brings this level of service to that job. We have equipped dental schools, universities and colleges across the United States and Canada, most of them more than once, and our largest single installations have been university projects of 400 rooms and more.
More than 160 universities, dental schools and colleges appear in our records; the institutions below are listed for reference.
The dealer sells it. We install it, train the operator and hand the office back running.
Federal work gets the headlines, but the bulk of our thousands of installations are private medical and dental practices, dental service organizations, community health centers, and hospital outpatient clinics. That work comes to us through the equipment dealers and manufacturers we install for: Henry Schein, Patterson Dental, Burkhart Dental, A-dec, DCI Edge, Midmark, Planmeca, Bien-Air and RMC Group. The dealer sells the equipment; S & S shows up, installs it, trains the operator and hands the office back running.
Single-operatory replacements, new-build offices, multi-location DSO rollouts, cabinet-only and equipment-only trips, warranty visits and de-install / re-install moves.
A live project site for every job, updated from the floor.
Every S & S job gets a custom, customer-facing project platform built for that job. Our technicians check off rooms and equipment on their phones as they finish, photos upload from the site, and your project team watches it happen from anywhere. No login, no software to buy, no waiting for the end-of-week report.
Our team is trained on generative AI and the tools of the current world. We use them to build these platforms in days, reconcile manifests in hours, and cut the paperwork that slows other installers down. Speed is the reason our customers hire us again.
A team that lives with the barge schedule.
Twenty years of flying teams into Nome, Sitka, Tanana and the villages taught us that the hardest part of any Alaska project is not the equipment. It is the barge schedule, the container at the dock, the stairs with no elevator, and the manifest that has to match before the plane leaves. S & S is growing a dedicated Alaska team so that logistics stop being an extra flight and start being our normal week.
Alaska Direct takes that experience beyond medical and dental clinics. If it arrives in a container and has to end up assembled, mounted, connected and checked off in a room, we handle it: staff housing and apartments, offices, clinic and hospital FF&E, appliances, TVs and mounts, window treatments, casework and solid-surface countertops, plus the preventive-maintenance routes that keep remote clinics running between visits. The team is the same one that installed the entire medical equipment package for SEARHC's new Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center in Sitka, phase by phase inside an active construction site, and refitted 204 exam rooms for Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage. The customers who trust us with an emergency department can hand us the apartments, the offices and the rest of the building too.
Every Alaska Direct job runs dock to done the same way. The spec book and manifest are reconciled before the containers ship; containers are received at the dock and staged by building and floor; everything is carried, assembled, mounted and connected by our own team; each room is photographed and checked off on a live project site the customer can open from anywhere; overages, damage and back-orders are documented the same day; and a signed installation report closes the job. In Nome, for example, a team of eight received five ocean containers for Norton Sound Health Corporation's staff housing, reconciled 1,245 shipping pieces against the spec book, carried everything up two floors by hand, and placed, assembled and mounted more than 1,800 pieces across 42 apartments: furniture, appliances, TVs and mounts, window treatments and mirrors.
S & S Services is a full-service medical, dental and FF&E installation company. We plan the job, receive and stage the equipment, install and calibrate every unit, deliver a signed installation report, and come back for the preventive maintenance, warranty and service work once the doors are open. Our teams are professional, uniformed and federally background-checked, and they work with a speed and precision that set the standard for our industry.
Operatories, delivery systems, chairs, lights, imaging, sterilization centers, casework and sim labs, from a single operatory to a 160-chair school.
Exam, procedure and emergency rooms, whole hospitals phased to construction, plus contract PMs, OEM service routes and warranty work.
Complete furniture, fixtures and equipment packages for clinics, hospitals, staff housing, offices, hospitality and senior living.
Every branch of the Military, VAMCs, medical and dental universities, the Indian Health Service and Alaska Native healthcare, federal prisons, Job Corps, state and local facilities, and private practices.
All 50 states and 27 countries, with teams stationed nationwide and a division working from inside Alaska.
By trip and by room, so the work can be phased the way your project and construction schedule need.