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More surgical facilities are turning to third-party reprocessing of single-use devices to save money. One ASC manager we talked to projected an annual supply savings of $68,000 for her facility's first year alone. The Mayo Clinic has reported 50 percent to 70 percent savings on reprocessed devices, according to Marcia W. Parker, RN, MSN, CNOR, a clinical nurse educator, at University Community Hospital in Tampa, Fla.; she recently used this information to "emphasize the savings realized and to reinforce the need to continue putting SUDs in the recycle bin."
