Worth Repeating
“The word ‘reprocessor’ is slipping from the vocabulary of the FDA and is now being replaced with ‘manufacturer,’ which has been quite comforting for the marketplace.”
- Mark Salomon, senior vice president of corporate development for reprocessor Vanguard Medical Concepts Inc., Lakeland, FL.
“A scope can be used anywhere from 300 to 1,200 times a year. The question is can we be guaranteed that the scope has been processed appropriately each of those times?”
-Michelle Alfa, Ph.D., assistant director for St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada, on the difficulties inherent in properly cleaning endoscopes
“I have read that 3M is in back order, but that is false.”
-Craig Wadzink, global marketing manager for surgical masks and respirators for 3M, reacting to reports that mask and respirator supplies were dwindling
“What really surprised me most is that in this day and age of bioterrorism, we weren’t prepared and neither were you [the U.S.].”
-Jeff Stevens, executive vice president of The Stevens Company Limited, a national med-surg product distributor based near Toronto
“Materials managers, who bring product in through the front door, need to be cognizant of how it goes out the back door.”
-Janet Brown, medical waste managerfor Beth Israel Medical Center in New York
“Both parties agreed that the contract was not meeting its original intent.”
-Statement made by officials at Baylor Health Care System announcing the end of a 10-year IT contract with EDS after one year
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