{"title":"Millions saved with purchasing coalition.","authors":"Susan Birk","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 3","pages":"26-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28123925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central service professionals play a vital role in ensuring patient safety, and in doing so, are exposed to harsh chemicals and sterilants. Knowing the effects of such chemicals is important so that the proper measures can be taken to prevent personal harm or injury as much as possible. Through the use of personal protective equipment, worker training and firmly adhering to OSHA practices, employees can work safely in the central service environment; especially when used in conjuction with engineering controls and gas monitoring.
{"title":"Understanding the effects of sterile processing chemicals. Protection, education are paramount in ensuring worker safety.","authors":"Richard Warburton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Central service professionals play a vital role in ensuring patient safety, and in doing so, are exposed to harsh chemicals and sterilants. Knowing the effects of such chemicals is important so that the proper measures can be taken to prevent personal harm or injury as much as possible. Through the use of personal protective equipment, worker training and firmly adhering to OSHA practices, employees can work safely in the central service environment; especially when used in conjuction with engineering controls and gas monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 2","pages":"16-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28045500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making sense and success of product conversions and implementations.","authors":"Jean Sargent","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 2","pages":"32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28045952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sterilizer monitoring with biological indicators (BIs) is considered the gold standard since BIs actually test a sterilizer's ability to kill specific strains of highly resistant organisms. Commercially available BIs consist of spores in or on a carrier, accompanied by culture medium with a color change pH indictor dye. Here, SPSmedical Supply Corp. educators address questions about these important quality assurance devices.
{"title":"The gold standard in sterilizer monitoring.","authors":"Chuck Hughes, Gary Socola, Mariann Hughes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sterilizer monitoring with biological indicators (BIs) is considered the gold standard since BIs actually test a sterilizer's ability to kill specific strains of highly resistant organisms. Commercially available BIs consist of spores in or on a carrier, accompanied by culture medium with a color change pH indictor dye. Here, SPSmedical Supply Corp. educators address questions about these important quality assurance devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 2","pages":"23-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28045502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As the supply chain evolves, health care organizations must evolve as well. New demands are being made on materials managers, and other departments also are feeling the economic pressure. But change is not possible without the support of leaders, especially those in executive positions. By making a convincing case to those who embrace change, a culture shift can begin to take place. This will unify departments, synchronize organizational goals and create a more efficient decision-making process involving clinicians.
{"title":"Affecting culture change. Leadership involvement imperative to ensure paradigm shift.","authors":"Peg Tinker, Dee Donatelli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the supply chain evolves, health care organizations must evolve as well. New demands are being made on materials managers, and other departments also are feeling the economic pressure. But change is not possible without the support of leaders, especially those in executive positions. By making a convincing case to those who embrace change, a culture shift can begin to take place. This will unify departments, synchronize organizational goals and create a more efficient decision-making process involving clinicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 2","pages":"20-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28045501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open communication between infection control and materials managers plays a vital role in patient care. Cost containment is an obvious issue, as is ensuring patient safety. Where collaboration becomes paramount is when the two departments work together toward standardization while giving infection control the flexibility to buy off-contract when necessary. Both must have an understanding of what products are available and which of those products are going to fit the needs of clinicians and patients.
{"title":"At odds no more. Materials, infection control unite to beat infectious diseases.","authors":"Paula DeJohn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Open communication between infection control and materials managers plays a vital role in patient care. Cost containment is an obvious issue, as is ensuring patient safety. Where collaboration becomes paramount is when the two departments work together toward standardization while giving infection control the flexibility to buy off-contract when necessary. Both must have an understanding of what products are available and which of those products are going to fit the needs of clinicians and patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 2","pages":"10-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28045499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As hospitals become increasingly sensitive to the health and financial consequences of health care-associated infections (HAIs), a new generation of molecular-based testing technologies promises to significantly shorten the time required to identify "superbugs" and other bacterial infections. The leading-edge techniques promise to reduce costs by helping hospitals quickly determine which patients to isolate because they carry active methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, for example, or which ones to release from prophylactic isolation because they ultimately tested negative for a dangerous infection. But diagnostic speed comes at a price--the costs to perform molecular tests are significantly higher than conventional methods. This challenges hospitals to balance health care expenses with medical efficacy, says molecular testing veteran Margie Morgan, Ph.D., scientific director at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. "The rapid methods can be extreme time savers and possibly help a great deal with the isolation of patients. But some of the tests may cost five times what manual methods might be, so there is a price for seeing so much of a reduction in time," she says.
{"title":"Do rapid 'superbug' tests pay off? Balance the costs and benefits of leading-edge technology. Interview by Alan Joch.","authors":"Margie Ann Morgan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As hospitals become increasingly sensitive to the health and financial consequences of health care-associated infections (HAIs), a new generation of molecular-based testing technologies promises to significantly shorten the time required to identify \"superbugs\" and other bacterial infections. The leading-edge techniques promise to reduce costs by helping hospitals quickly determine which patients to isolate because they carry active methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, for example, or which ones to release from prophylactic isolation because they ultimately tested negative for a dangerous infection. But diagnostic speed comes at a price--the costs to perform molecular tests are significantly higher than conventional methods. This challenges hospitals to balance health care expenses with medical efficacy, says molecular testing veteran Margie Morgan, Ph.D., scientific director at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. \"The rapid methods can be extreme time savers and possibly help a great deal with the isolation of patients. But some of the tests may cost five times what manual methods might be, so there is a price for seeing so much of a reduction in time,\" she says.</p>","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 2","pages":"7-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28045498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Licensed to fill.","authors":"Janet Burda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 1","pages":"16-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28124978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weathering the recession.","authors":"John DiConsiglio","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"18 1","pages":"12-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28124975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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