Reduced costs
A typical 200-bed hospital could save between $600,000 and $1,000,000 a year through reprocessing.1
Reprocessing not only reduces the acquisition cost of devices, it help to reduce disposal fees and provides a reliable supply chain.
Benefits of Reprocessing
By partnering with a total-solutions reprocessor like us, you help reduce waste, you help save your hospital money, and you help ensure clinicians always have high-quality products.
Financial benefits
Reprocessing allows you to spend money on what matters.
Purchasing reprocessed devices not only provides savings – it creates value. The value created through reprocessing can be used to improve patient care, fund medical research, and reinvest in health systems.
Predictable savings
Our sales representatives work with you to monitor opportunities for savings. Through our service model customers receive predictable savings, detailed reporting, and supply chain stability.
Healthier patients
The savings provided by reprocessing can be used on what truly matters – patient care.
Environmental benefits
Environmental well-being is critical to human health. Reprocessing gives hospitals the unique ability to care for current patients while helping to care for our future.
If hospitals nationwide began reprocessing, savings could exceed to $5.4 billion over five years.2
Reducing carbon footprint
In 2013, the U.S. healthcare sector was responsible for 10% of national greenhouse gas emissions.4
Through reprocessing, hospitals can reduce energy needed to produce new devices and emissions released by landfills and incinerators during waste disposal.
Through reprocessing, hospitals can reduce energy needed to produce new devices and emissions released by landfills and incinerators during waste disposal.
Diverting waste
Hospitals in United States send 5.9 million tons of waste to landfills every year.3
Through our zero waste to landfill facility, we diverted 885 tons of waste from overflowing waste streams in 2018. How much is that? More than 22 full semitrucks.
Through our zero waste to landfill facility, we diverted 885 tons of waste from overflowing waste streams in 2018. How much is that? More than 22 full semitrucks.
Protecting our future
When hospitals go green, they positively impact the lives of those beyond hospital walls. A clean planet creates a bright future for generations to come.
Resources:
1AMDR. (2011). The Business Case for Reprocessing. http://amdr.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Business-Case-for-Reprocessing-for-web-1.pdf
2https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/documents/___media_files_publications_issue_brief_2012_nov_1641_kaplan_can_sustainable_hosps_bend_cost_curve_ib.pdf
3Practice Greenhealth. https://practicegreenhealth.org/topics/waste/waste-0
4Eckelman MJ, Sherman J (2016) Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health. PLOS ONE 11(6): e0157014.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157014