When a funeral home, coroner’s office or hospital is considering purchasing a decedent cooler, there are many decisions that need to be made. The answers to those decisions will determine the satisfaction level with the investment. Over the next several posts I will review the decisions that were made during the purchase of a cooler for the COOLTEC Body Storage facility. Many of these decisions will be the same decisions that a potential decedent storage facility will need to make. I will share the thought process as to why COOLTEC made the decisions we did.
The following is a list of the decisions that will be discussed in future posts:
- Which company’s cooler should I purchase?
- How is the company’s customer service?
- Will the company provide customers that will discuss his/her experience with the company’s cooler?
- What size cooler should I purchase?
- What refrigeration system should I consider?
- What size door do I need?
- How important is controlling the cooler temperature remotely?
- Do I require a door that locks?
- How many racks will fit into the different cooler sizes?
- How difficult is the cooler and refrigeration system to assemble?
These are the topics that will be discussed. After using the cooler for several months, I have the added perspective as to how the answers to those questions turned out.
