Quality & Patient Safety
A list of items to consider in preparing to comply with new standards for the handling of hazardous drugs set forth in USP general Chapter 800.
The AHA Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. ET will host a call for member hospitals and health systems featuring Cardinal Health leaders, who will discuss the latest developments and answer questions about its surgical gown recall. Steve Mason, CEO of medical segment; Robert Rajalingam, president of U.S. sales…
Cardinal Health, in coordination with the Food and Drug Administration, today announced actions involving 2.9 million procedure packs manufactured between September 2018 and January 2020 that contain surgical gowns recalled last week.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced plans to combine and standardize its quality compare tools for hospitals, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, physicians, home health, hospice and dialysis providers so users can access the same…
Cardinal Health has created a webpage to keep customers informed about its Jan. 21 recall of certain surgical gowns because it could not assure their sterility.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring, and collaborating with the World Health Organization (WHO), on an outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Cardinal Health Jan. 21 notified customers of an urgent medical device recall related to specific production lots of single-sterile and bulk non-sterile Cardinal Non-Reinforced Surgical Gowns, Cardinal Fabric-Reinforced Surgical Gowns and RoyalSilk Non-Reinforced Surgical Gowns.
Cardinal Health continues to assess how many surgical gowns and procedure packs are affected by a quality issue at a contract manufacturing facility, but has placed a hold on potentially impacted lots as far back at September 2018 as a precaution, the company said during a Department of Health and…
AHA released a statement on the surgical gowns and packs impacted by the Cardinal Health recall.
Cardinal Health has placed a hold on certain lots of its bulk surgical gowns, as well as surgical procedure packs containing the gowns, while it works with the Food and Drug Administration to address a manufacturing quality issue, the company said in a letter today to customers. The company said it…