Blog
April 2015
Speaking Engagement at IAMERS 22nd Annual meeting
AMDR President, Dan Vukelich, is confirmed to speak at International Association of Medical Equipment Remarketers and Servicers Meeting 4/30/15 in Washington, DC! http://ow.ly/LiHLi
Protect your Reprocessing Savings with Stryker!
Check out how Stryker Sustainability Solutions is helping hospitals increase their supply chain cost savings! "Protect your Reprocessing Savings" on p.40 Read about it here.
February 2015
AMDR Alert on Duodenoscopes Safety Communication
On February 19, 2015, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication to healthcare professionals regarding the design of certain reusable [...]
Join Us in Portland for CleanMed 2015
RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - January 28, 2015) - As we move into 2015, CleanMed is coming up -- and the early-bird deadline is looming just one [...]
January 2015
2013 Milestone Report Shows Hospitals Going Healthier
Big trends around local, sustainable food and healthier beverages top the figures released recently in the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) 2013 Milestone Report released Aug. [...]
Reprocessing in the News – Best of 2014
Sustainability: Greening the OR Reduces Waste Posted on January 9th, 2014 “It costs the hospital 10 times more to haul away one bag of medical [...]
December 2014
Sustainability: Rising to the Forefront of Hospital Purchasing Decisions
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a major consideration when hospitals make purchasing decisions, according to a recent Harris Poll survey. Over half of the respondents reported [...]
November 2014
Hospitals could save two million – if someone acted.
The attached article comes from Finance Newspaper in Slovenia. It has been translated and can be found in its original form at http://www.finance.si/8812667/Za-bolni%C5%A1nice-dva-milijona-prihranka---%C4%8De-se-bo-kdo-zganil. Tone Lovšin, [...]
HPN: Sorting out the savings in waste management
Christine-Marie Eno, Director of Materials Management at Catholic Medical Center, NH, said they continually save about 10,000 pounds of device waste from entering the landfill each [...]
October 2014
How Hospitals Are Stepping Up to the Challenge of Climate Change
Healthcare organizations are in the business of supporting human health. Yet the irony is that health care organizations, and the hospitals they operate, are no [...]
Engaged Leadership Challenge
As a data-driven organization, we decided that we needed to measure our sustainability programming. Our very first environmental goal was to reduce energy by 20 [...]
2013 Milestone Report Shows Hospitals Going Healthier
Launched in April 2012, HHI is a national campaign to promote a more sustainable business model for health care while addressing the health and environmental [...]
What Comes In Must Go Out
Regulated medical waste (RMW) typically costs $0.20–$0.50 per pound and is six to eight times more expensive to dispose of than solid waste or recyclable [...]
"Reducing the landfill" with reprocessing program
Before the buyback program started 2 years ago, OR staff would throw the Harmonic scalpels into a red sharps container, along with syringes, suture and [...]
Hospital’s ‘Green Team’ cuts waste and expense
WHO officials say the answer to reducing such a heavy environmental footprint is environmentally sustainable policies, such as recycling, reprocessing, composting, and purchasing recycled materials. [...]
Detoxing Healthcare: Hospitals Get Healthier
Are hospitals making tiny babies sick? That question troubled Kathy Gerwig, an executive at Kaiser Permanente, the big US healthcare provider, when she visited a [...]
Inova Launches Red-Bag Waste Reduction Initiative
Pizza boxes, flowers, wadded-up paper, latex-glove boxes—those were just some of the items regularly tossed into the red bags reserved for regulated medical waste at [...]
Hospital Sustainability Spending on the Rise
[Please note: Reprocessing is NOT specifically mentioned in this story about hospital sustainability efforts, in a poll commissioned by Johnson & Johnson.] Fifty-four percent of [...]
Sustainability Trends Catching On At Hospitals
The Healthier Hospitals Initiative has released its 2013 Milestone Report, showing that more hospitals are adopting sustainability practices to reduce their environmental footprint while lowering [...]
September 2014
Reprocessed Medical Devices Market Expected to Reach USD 2.58 Billion Globally in 2020
According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Reprocessed Medical Devices Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, [...]