Microsystems would like to congratulate
Community Medical Center – Saint Barnabas Health
Care System – Toms River, NJ for being named the
2010 SPD of the Year by Healthcare Purchasing News.
Heart of the Hospital
As an Engine of Quality Service, Community Boosts Productivity to Improve Patient Care
by Rick Dana Barlow
For some sterile processing departments, what they do on a daily basis simply is regarded as a job, a set of tasks to service the operating room directly, and the patients indirectly.
For others, sterile processing also represents a calling and a viable career path.
But Toms River, NJ-based Community Medical Center adds a third component by regarding what they do as a crusade for how sterile processing and distribution departments and professionals should act, operate and be valued.
That’s just the way Terri Matthews, R.N., CNOR, CSPDM, director of patient care services CSP, wants it.
