Michael Westmiller, administrator of Vail Valley Surgery Centers in
Vail, Colo., values easy-to-use controls that let OR staff and surgeons
efficiently and safely position and transfer patients.
19 new tables, please
Sharon Ball, RN, BSN, nursing unit administrator of perioperative
services at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, will soon have to
purchase 19 new beds for 19 new ORs. Mount Sinai is building a new
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Karen Gabbert, RN,
BSN, clinical director of
the Surgery Center of
Kansas in Wichita, Kan.,
is a fan of refurbished
OR beds. "If you have a
good biomed group, you
can get a refurbished
bed for quite a bit less
with a year warranty on
it and do just as well as
if you'd purchased a
new bed," she says.
She's purchased 3 refurbished beds in the last 6 years for her
single-specialty orthopedics ASC — all the same brand. The last
one was $8,500. "I didn't even price a new bed. I knew it was well
out of my budget," she says.
Ms. Gabbert makes it a point to give her biomed department the
product manual on a CD. — Dan O'Connor
BUYING USED
Going the Refurbished Route
• PREVIOUSLY OWNED Karen Gabbert, RN, BSN, clinical director of the
Surgery Center of Kansas in Wichita, Kan., with her newly purchased and
lightly used refurbished table.
Surgery
Center
of
Kansas
