{"title":"Directory of education.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most important tools for career building and personal satisfaction is education, and there are a wide variety of ways for you to get it. Some are available through your professional associations; others through correspondence courses, on-site courses at local colleges and universities, seminar programs of associations, vendors and seminar groups; and still others in audiovisual formats. We've assembled a list of educational offerings that should be of interest to you and your colleagues. There may be others offered in your area, so contact your local institutions of higher learning to take advantage of what they have--or to develop a course with them!</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 12","pages":"20, 22, 24 passim"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21010784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1994 survey--healthcare materiel management and central service professions.","authors":"M Ferdinand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our 1994 professional survey shows an industry in flux. Institutions seem to be getting smaller, job tenure is shrinking for CS managers and materiel managers are convinced there will be fewer of them around. Salaries seem to be flattening for materiel managers, female materiel managers are being financially discriminated against and CS managers, though making more money, are losing benefits. Job dissatisfaction appears to be on the rise for both professions.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 12","pages":"11-6, 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21010782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reducing orthopedic implant costs. A physician-driven approach at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland.","authors":"M Ferdinand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Faced with the closing of its service, the Orthopaedics Department at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, working with Materials Management, began a program to become profitable. Through standardization, appropriate utilization, pre-planning of cases and the development of critical pathways, the service has realized about 40% savings in materials and dropped their average product costs to $2,700 per joint and reduced length of stay by five to six days. The keys have been physician input from the start, teamwork and continuous training.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 11","pages":"20-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21044018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Product standards committees today and tomorrow.","authors":"D Mayworm","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The results of a survey of product standards committees conducted by the JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MATERIEL MANAGEMENT show that most hospitals have such a committee, chaired by the materiel manager. Despite the fact that respondents named 49 different disciplines as possible members of the committees and 100% attendance is experienced less than a quarter of the time, most respondents said they had the right number of people on their committee and that the committee was effective or very effective. With more facility affiliations in the offing, purchasing decisions will be made at a corporate level. To be viable in the future, the products committee will have to transform itself into a utilization review and cost oversight committee, and drastically reduce its membership.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 11","pages":"36-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21011694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Kerr, B Johnson, C Martin, B Hanna, D Swanson, M Deutsch
{"title":"\"Stockless\" cost reduction in the operating room.","authors":"M Kerr, B Johnson, C Martin, B Hanna, D Swanson, M Deutsch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center in St. Paul, MN became one of the first hospitals in the United States to initiate a \"stockless\" par level inventory system. Successes with stockless led the hospital to look at implementing it in the OR to achieve a reduction of expense to revenue. Materiel Management and Surgical Services discussed a number of issues relevant to implementing a stockless program, including product flow, accuracy and cost of case carts and preference cards, item pricing, committed usage of items brought into the system and establishment of a steering committee. Specific OR issues and practices required evaluation and adjustment, such as the routine use of emergency direct ordering. Information systems support was brought in and a products committee established to do education and oversee the program. Savings for 1993-94 were $185,146.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 11","pages":"28, 30, 32-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21008934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Air ambulance services--integrated emergency care.","authors":"M Ferdinand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the name of cost-conscious care, air ambulance program directors and service contractors are seeing the dawn of integrated networks as a boon to their business. As integrated networks form, facilities will become increasingly specialized in the types of services they provide. Patients will need to be moved around the system, resulting in more frequent patient transport and more points of transfer. Many programs are considering aircraft replacement and additions, rather than leasing. Financial benefits could come on depreciation and the high resale value of aircraft. Unless reimbursement levels increase, more program mergers and affiliations may take place to spread and reduce cost. Air ambulance services will increasingly become part of a facility's strategic plan.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 10","pages":"19-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21009839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Devices for the prevention of TB transmission. Considerations for proper application.","authors":"T P Nelson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare facilities throughout the country are confronted with the task of preventing the transmission of tuberculosis among their patients and staff. On October 12, 1993, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the Draft Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Tuberculosis in Health Care Facilities, and this is scheduled for final publication before year's end. The pending CDC guidelines are comprehensive and include engineering recommendations which are applicable to all settings in which health care is provided. Facilities that do not intend to use conventional construction or renovation to accomplish TB guideline compliance may consider using some type of environmental control device. These devices typically utilize ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) and/or high efficiency particulate air filtration (HEPA), each of which is recognized as a viable TB environmental control. TB environmental control measures for specific areas within a healthcare facility should be based on a careful assessment of the actual risk of TB transmission in that setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 10","pages":"22-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21009840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}