Catholic Healthcare West: CHW Partners with Ascent Medical Device Reprocessing and Recycling to Advance Its 'Go Green' Initiative (06/08/10): For more than a decade, Catholic Healthcare West’s (CHW) hospitals have woven environmentally conscious programs and

Outpatient Surgery Magazine: Who's Afraid of Reprocessed Single-Use Devices? (June 2010): Education plays a key role in acceptance of reprocessed devices, says Marcia Patrick, RN, MSN, CIC, director of infection prevention at MultiCare Health System,

SurgiStrategies: Reprocessing of Medical Devices Can Be a Smart Business, Clinical Decision (06/10/10): The organization Practice Greenhealth says that the healthcare industry ranks among the largest users of energy and the highest producers of waste,

OR Manager: Winning Converts to SUD Reprocessing (June 2010): Reprocessing of single-use devices is now mainstream, with an estimated 70% of US hospitals using single-use devices reprocessed by third-party cmpanies, according to industry figures. In

Reuters: Pharma and Medical Supply Leaders' Rx for Greener Operations Buildings (06/03/10): When hospitals could no longer manage reprocessing internally, third-party reprocessors jumped in to fill the gap. Leading reprocessor Ascent, A Stryker Sustainability Solution,

Dotmed News: Ascent Healthcare Solutions Takes Home Prestigious Award (05/28/10): Ascent Healthcare Solutions, a medical device reprocessing company, was named the Purchased Services Supplier of the Year by VHA, a network of nonprofit health care