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Archive > May, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 5

Reprocessing Wars

If reusing single-use devices is such a great thing, why are some device makers fuming? Probably because they're losing $250 million a year.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Stacy Howard, RN, MHA, MBA, has major purchasing power. She buys all of the operating room and general medical supplies for the Sisters of Mercy Health System's 28 hospitals in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Her budget is huge, millions and millions huge, and she's spending more and more of it on reprocessed single-use devices. Last year, she saved Mercy $1.7 million by buying refurbished trocars, pulse oximetry probes, GI forceps and the like, sparing her budget and the landfill — and drawing the ire of some of her surgical supply vendors.

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