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 SURE 2009: Enlightening supply chain’s
C-faring waysWhen Healthcare Purchasing News embarked on identifying and honoring hospital and health system CEOs that "Support, Understand, Recognize and Empower" supply chain management with its annual SURE award starting in 2005, conventional wisdom and industry zeitgeist seemed to indicate that the project might not have depth or staying power. Contrary to popular belief, hospital and health system CEOs seem to be more interested – and more well-versed – in supply chain management activities than ever before. |
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Hospitals loosening budget belts for bariatric products, equipment More than one in four Americans is considered obese, with a Body Mass Index (BMI) above 30; as much as 63 percent are overweight (BMI above 25); and with childhood obesity in the U.S. more than tripled in the past two decades, the potential future implications are staggering. It’s no wonder healthcare facilities are feeling the strain – clinically, financially and operationally. |
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 Bundling away HAIs with a KISSBundling is a lot like that old saying about a body being more than the sum of its parts. In healthcare quality circles, a bundle represents a collection of best practices and processes identified by evidence-based science as necessary to provide optimum care for patients in certain circumstances involving particular risks to achieve the goal of improved outcome. It’s a complication definition of a simple concept being used to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
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Driving
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Products and Services |
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War games
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People & Opinions |
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Fast Foreward Retooling processes saves endoscopy unit more than $240,000 annually
Standard Procedures
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Achieving quality, maximizing efficiencies and striving for the highest of
standards within the discipline cannot be adequately attained by simply
adopting one – or even several – key practices. Instead, sterile processing
and distribution (SPD) success comes from accepting and consistently
adhering to a wide range of practices, not all of which necessarily garner
the same outcomes in all facilities. In fact, the lessons learned from one
another throughout the industry can be invaluable.
Healthcare facilities face a never-ending conundrum in preparing to deal
with a disaster or a pandemic. They never can be too prepared; they never
can be totally prepared. Depending on who you talk to, where you look, what
you read and how you "Google," healthcare providers and suppliers either are
woefully short-sighted, in denial and ill-prepared for major calamities and
catastrophes or simply making necessary progress to the tune of "we’re
better off now than we were before."