What is Your True Cost of Facilities?

Look beyond rent to your true cost per liter of plasma produced.

When you look at all your fixed costs, cheaper rent or a less-expensive manager may not be smart decisions. Look at the long-term big picture when making important decisions for the best outcome.

1. Location, location, location

In real estate, location is everything. In plasma collection, the same holds true.

Let’s look at the math of two centers:

Center A: A beautiful, Stough-built facility -- on a hard corner, with traffic of 89,000 cars per day, squared against a hospital and state university building. It produces 128K liters of plasma per year. The rent is $250K/year. The cost of real estate is $1.95 per liter of plasma. Center B: An unattractive old building -- at the back of a run-down strip mall, in an unappealing location among empty storefronts. It produces 40K liters of plasma per year. The rent is $125K/year. The cost of real estate is $3.13 per liter of plasma.

Don’t believe it?

One South Carolina Stough-built center with a hard-corner location produced 5x the plasma of a backstreet competitor (who tried to locate as close as possible to our beautiful new center) in 2021.

Back To Top

2. Fixed costs: better quality is actually cheaper in the long run

Fixed costs such as:

  • Roofing
  • Flooring
  • Interior and exterior signage
  • Art
  • Cleaing and maintenance
  • Surfaces
  • Electrical
  • Ventilation

And more are a big part of your true costs.

When you go the cheap route, things are more expensive to maintain, and break down sooner and must be replaced more often.

An attractive center will pull in passersby, and delight your staff and donors, keeping them coming back.

It usually makes more sense in the long run to go the quality route (the Stough route).

Because you improve quality, your center will be more attractive to people passing by, and your staff and donors will enjoy being in your center more (and more apt to return and tell their friends.)

Back To Top

3. Making smart long-term decisions

Here’s a true cautionary tale:

Trying to save money on janitorial services, many a plasma center has found itself in trouble with the FDA, donors and employees.

 FDA violations are very expensive. Donors and employees do not want to spend time in a filthy building, and will choose your cleaner competitors.

One of your biggest fixed costs is center management. You want to spend as little as possible on management, of course. But not so little that you have an ineffective manager.


                Back To Top
            

                        
                    
    
                
THERE’S MORE TO THE COST OF OPERATING A CENTER THAN RENT. WORK WITH STOUGH AND WE WILL HELP YOU GET THE LOWEST COST OF OPERATION PER LITER OF PLASMA PRODUCED.

            

            
        

        
    

    







	

    	

        	
Reach Us

            

            
To streamline delivery and control costs, we take a prototype approach when possible, engage local civil engineering consultants for each project, and establish a working relationship with the local governing authority.