Cardinal Health expands Sustainable Technologies facility - Medical Design & Outsourcing

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) precocious opened its expanded Sustainable Technologies installation successful Riverview, Florida.

The installation is present doubly arsenic ample arsenic before, astatine 100,000 quadrate feet, said Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health.

The aesculapian instrumentality shaper and distributor launched Sustainable Technologies successful 2015 to collect, reprocess and recycle single-use devices successful the U.S. Sustainable Technologies present works with much than 3,000 U.S. hospitals and ambulatory work centers, Cardinal Health said.

The FDA allows single-use devices to beryllium utilized much than erstwhile if reprocessors tin amusement the reprocessed devices are substantially equivalent to the archetypal device. Many single-use devices tin beryllium recycled erstwhile they tin not beryllium reprocessed.

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“Sustainable Technologies is simply a unsocial maturation concern wrong Cardinal Health,” Global Planning SVP Pete Bennett said successful a quality release. “Our concern successful this enlargement highlights Cardinal Health’s committedness to helping trim healthcare’s biology interaction and discarded done [single-use device] reprocessing.”

Cardinal Health said single-use instrumentality reprocessing is 1 of the largest opportunities to trim infirmary waste. The institution cited an Association of Medical Device Reprocessors report that estimated U.S. hospitals saved $372 cardinal successful 2020 acknowledgment to reprocessed single-use devices.

Those devices outgo 25% to 40% little than their brand-new counterparts, according to the association, which represents the single-use instrumentality reprocessing and remanufacturing industry.

“Sustainable Technologies’ larger abstraction volition let the concern to bring connected caller products for customers, and amended conscionable expanding request for existing products,” Bennett said. “This represents a win-win, allowing america to assistance much customers some trim costs and destruct much discarded from the environment.”

How Cardinal Health’s Sustainable Technologies concern operates

Sustainable Technologies identifies optimal locations for single-use instrumentality postulation bins and schedules regular pickups for reprocessing. Used products astatine the Sustainable Technologies installation are past inspected, sorted, cleaned, tested, inspected, disinfected, sterilized and redistributed to healthcare facilities.

Devices that tin beryllium reprocessed see pneumatic tourniquet cuffs, aboriginal aerial transportation mats, compression sleeves, disposable pb wires, unit infusion bags and pulse oximetry sensors.

The Riverview installation has recycled, reused oregon recovered much than 2.5 cardinal pounds of coagulated discarded and kept 99.9% of discarded retired of landfills, Cardinal Health said. The installation recovers invaluable metals from batteries and wires, for example, and sorts corrugated cardboard for recycling backmost into cardboard oregon chipboard products specified arsenic insubstantial towels, tissues and paperboard.

Non-recoverable worldly and pharmaceutical and hazardous discarded astatine the Sustainable Technologies installation is incinerated, portion regulated aesculapian discarded and works trash spell to a waste-to-energy works wherever it is burned to make electricity.

Cardinal Health reported $15.9 cardinal successful income for its aesculapian conception successful 2022, making it the eighth-largest aesculapian instrumentality institution successful the satellite according to Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s Medtech Big 100 ranking.