Long-Term X-ray Garment Rentals for Hospitals
Our long-term rental program gives hospitals professionally maintained lead garments on a scheduled cadence — fully managed by RCS. We handle integrity inspections, deep cleaning and disinfection, inventory tracking, and routine swap-outs so your team stays protected, compliant, and audit-ready without the operational burden.
Trusted by 500+ Teams
Why Long-Term Rental Makes Sense
Owning and managing lead garments is expensive, inconsistent, and often reactive. Inspections get delayed. Inventory tracking falls behind. Garments age without clear replacement timelines.
A long-term rental model changes that.
- Predictable payments
- Flexibility as staff and facility needs change
- Less operational headache
- Deep cleaned, audit-ready garments
Instead, your lead program becomes structured, scheduled, and professionally maintained with predictable costs and built-in compliance.
How it Works
Partnering with RCS is straightforward. Our team works with you to identify the right rental solution for your clinical needs, timeline, and budget, and we manage every detail from preparation to delivery.
Design Your Program
We evaluate your department’s inventory needs — including shared community lead, sizing requirements, and volume — to build a structured rental program that aligns with your operations & budget.
Scheduled Rotation & Maintenance
Garments are delivered and rotated on a defined cadence. Each piece is radiographically tested, professionally deep cleaned and disinfected, and documented for compliance before returning to your facility.
Ongoing Compliance & Seamless Replacement
Every garment includes QR-enabled tracking through RadComply, providing instant access to inspection records and X-ray images. Failed or damaged garments are replaced within your scheduled rotation.
Who Longer-Term Rental Is Built For
Growing or Expanding Facilities
When staffing fluctuates or new service lines launch, rental inventory can scale with you — without large upfront purchases.
Departments Ready for Budget Stability
Avoid large, unexpected garment replacement costs. A monthly model transforms lead management from reactive capital spending into a predictable operating expense that scales with your needs.
Teams Ready to Eliminate the Administrative Burden
If managing lead garments feels like a part-time job assigned to the wrong person, long-term rental removes that responsibility entirely.
Departments Managing Shared Community Lead
If your shared lead inventory is inconsistent, difficult to track, or rarely deep cleaned, a structured rental model brings standardization, sizing flexibility, and built-in compliance.
A Smarter Way to Manage Your Lead Garments
Radiation protection isn’t just about having garments available. It’s about ensuring consistent integrity, cleanliness, availability, and compliance — without creating internal administrative strain.
Long-term rental replaces reactive replacement cycles and scattered inventory tracking with a structured, professionally managed system. Your lead program becomes predictable, scalable, and audit-ready by design.
Ready to Modernize Your Lead Program?
Owning and managing lead garments has long been treated as a necessary operational burden. It doesn’t have to be.
With a structured long-term rental model, your department gains predictable costs, built-in compliance, and professionally maintained protection — without internal inventory management.
Maintained to a Higher Standard
A Trusted Partner in Protection and Compliance
Long-term rental only works if the garments are maintained to the highest standard — every time they leave and return to your facility.
At RCS, every garment undergoes:
- Annual radiographic integrity screening to detect hidden cracks or material breakdown
- Professional deep cleaning and disinfection
- Documentation and compliance logging through RadComply
- Lifecycle monitoring to ensure timely replacement before degradation becomes risk
Garments are re-evaluated, reconditioned, and re-documented before returning to service. This ensures consistent protection, cleanliness, and compliance, without requiring internal oversight.
Program Consultation
We work with your team to assess inventory needs, shared lead requirements, and compliance goals to design a program.
Integrity & Disinfection Standards
Every garment is radiographically screened, professionally deep cleaned, and documented in RadComply to ensure protection and audit readiness.
Structured Compliance Tracking
Inspection records and X-ray images are accessible via QR code and in RadComply, providing real-time documentation without internal tracking.
Ongoing Support
Our team supports your department to ensure uninterrupted protection and compliance continuity.
Ready to Modernize Your Lead Program?
Owning and managing lead garments has long been treated as a necessary operational burden. It doesn’t have to be.
With a structured long-term rental model, your department gains predictable costs, built-in compliance, and professionally maintained protection — without internal inventory management.
Let’s design a lead program that works for your team, not against it.
It’s Time for a Better Lead Management Option.
Lead Garment Cleaning & Care: What Every Hospital Needs to Know
Clean Those Leads
Hospital-owned lead garments require professional deep cleaning, not just surface wipes. RCS follows a proven two-step cleaning and disinfection process that meets AORN, The Joint Commission, and CDC standards to eliminate bacteria, viruses, fungi, and spores.
Save Time
RCS customers save an average of 13 minutes per garment by eliminating the need for staff to perform manual X-ray scans, track inventory spreadsheets, and manage repair schedules. Our service frees your radiology techs and clinical staff to focus on patient care instead of garment management.
84% Of Lead Vest Are Contaminated
A Wayne State University study found that 84% of lead aprons tested positive for Ringworm and Staphylococcus aureus, with 12% colonized by MRSA. Contaminated protective equipment puts both healthcare workers and patients at risk of infection.
Wipes Aren’t Enough
Surface wipes alone are clinically proven ineffective for properly sanitizing lead garments. True disinfection requires a two-step process: friction-based cleaning followed by proper disinfection using bactericidal, viricidal, fungicidal, and sporicidal solutions.