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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > March, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 3

Our Readers Come Clean on Home-laundered Scrubs

Is home-laundering scrubs an easy place to save money without jeopardizing patient or staff safety?

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

If the staff at the Surgery Center of Kansas had its way, the Wichita facility would buy its scrubs and let the staff launder them at home. "But our physicians wouldn't do this, so we'd still have to send out their scrubs, as well as the anesthesia providers' and vendors'," says Karen Gabbert, RN, BSN, the ASC's clinical director.

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