August 2022

GOLD CHAIN Sutter Health, Sacramento, CAHighlights: Modeling demonstrates a business approach to healthcare supply chain as well as a mature organizational and departmental development...

Who supports an award-winning healthcare supply chain organization? Sutter Health’s Supply Chain team appreciates the product and service companies – and fellow provider organizations...

The supply chain team at Sacramento, CA-based Sutter Health had their leadership mettle tested within the last few months as the departmental Vice President retired and two members...

On interacting and integrating with non-acute care facilities, particularly in context with different classes of trade and demand/supply patterns:Lee Ayers, Senior Director, Supply...

Methods of protecting endoscopes that have undergone high-level disinfection (HLD) or liquid chemical sterilization (LCS) from damage and contamination during storage have changed...

Q “We have a co-worker who uses a can of Air Duster from Best Buy. Could that be used instead of the air gun provided at our tables? If there is an ST79 or AAMI recommendation...

This month we’re granting two salutes – one to an organization and the other to a person – for reaching the end of the road. For the organization, it’s the end of the road through...

Stigmas are everywhere in the world today, like it or not. Unfortunately, they are alive and well in our healthcare industry, on both sides of the spectrum. As if providing good...

When the U.S. FDA published the UDI rule, requiring medical devices to be labelled with a unique device identifier (UDI), the government agency fully expected the healthcare ecosystem...