Quality & Patient Safety
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.
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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…
Cardinal Health has 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. View AHA and other…
Cardinal Health customers may contact their sales representative to obtain lot numbers for surgical gowns and procedure packs affected by a quality issue at a contract manufacturing facility. The issue seems to affect about 25%-30% of the company’s AAMI Level 3 surgical gowns.
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As part of the January refresh of Hospital Compare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to update its hospital overall star ratings. The release of these data could generate interest from the media. CMS also has announced its intention to propose significant…