Hank BalchDec 17, 20194 minSterilization Scare: 5 Lessons We Must Learn from Porter Adventist HospitalThere are few more frightening phone calls that a surgical patient could receive than one notifying them that "Our sterilization...
Hank BalchDec 17, 20194 minWhen It's My Surgery: Fear, Trust, and Our Sterile Processing MomentIt hit me. The unexplainable roulette wheel of acute appendicitis respects no one. And this time, it was my number that came up. Around...
Hank BalchDec 17, 20193 minThe Dangerously Dirty Secret of Sterile Processing Contract/TravelingThis is not a hit piece. But I am going to say some hard things. I have many close friends involved in the Sterile Processing temporary...
Hank BalchDec 17, 20195 minThe Tip of the Spear: A Review of "The Bleeding Edge" and What's Waiting Behind Door #2I should not have been as surprised as I was. But then the anger set in, then fear, then a few tears as the reality of the current state...
Hank BalchDec 17, 20195 minWhere Everybody Knows Your Name: Why Sterile Processors Love Facebook38,000+ members strong and growing. That's the combined membership of many of the largest Sterile Processing groups on Facebook today...
Hank BalchDec 17, 20194 min3,778 Reasons the New Jersey Sterilization Outbreak Matters to YouThe impact of the recent dirty surgery headline out of New Jersey is understandably shocking. But it reveals much more about our industry...