PR Newswire reports that HYGIA Health Services, an Essential Clinical Commodities (ECC) vendor, focuses its reprocessing activities on single use, non-invasive devices around the patient room. Though typical medical reprocessors focus on surgery devices, many other items throughout the rest of the hospital present a large opportunity to save substantial money and eliminate landfill waste. Using FDA approved processes, HYGIA designs its processes for essential clinical commodities—cleaning, testing, disinfecting, and repackaging items such as bed curtains, cerebral-somatic sensors, blood pressure cuffs, SCD/DVT sleeves, pulse ox sensors, ECG leads, pneumatic tourniquets, infusor bags, splints, masks, bed alarms, and stethoscopes. This comprehensive savings program focused on the patient room can produce $5290 in hard cost savings per bed over 5 years.
Essential Clinical Commodities (ECCs) are products throughout the hospital that are essential for the clinical setting and can be managed and reprocessed with HYGIA using FDA approved methodology to save over $1,000 per bed per year. Many are Single Use Devices (SUDs) historically thrown away, generating millions of pounds of landfill waste.
HYGIA’s high quality service saves our customers a substantial amount of money that will multiply over time—not to mention the peace of mind from choosing the greener option.
For over a decade, HYGIA has provided 300+ hospitals in 32 states substantial savings and a more environmentally friendly option for managing their high volume essential clinical commodities (ECCs). HYGIA achieves greater cost savings and elimination of landfill waste by concentrating on the often-ignored essential clinical commodities throughout the rest of the hospital rather than narrowly focusing on surgery, like traditional medical reprocessors. Incorporating accountable relationships, high quality processes, and better patient experiences into the business model, single use devices (SUDs) and other ECCs are cleaned, reprocessed, tested, sanitized, packaged, and managed for superior patient room asset utilization and greater green impact.
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