Worth repeating

Healthcare Purchasing News, Feb, 2004

"The integration and dedication to applying the best care standards across the system help ensure quality will be foremost on IHC's agenda."

--William H. Prows, vice president of Shared and Affiliated Services at Intermountain Health Care, Inc.

"We need to be involved in the product selection for our own departments, as well ns others no we ask the important questions, 'Can we clean this?' and 'Can this be sterilzed?'. If we don't leave the basement, we won't be included in these important decisions."

--Sybil Williams, president of IAHCSMM

"There is a bit of discomfort from materials folks with regard to the profit the private labeler makes, costs are hidden. If the buyer saves a nickel, does the vendor make three times the profit?"

--David Kaczmarek, vice president of McFaul and Lyons Group

"While I have not seen any recent supporting data, it seems logical that over the past 10 years, hospitals have been treating fewer but much sicker patients in-house.."

--William J. McFaul, retired managing director of the former Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems

"Making decisions on how to treat a patient who is not at high risk, but who's not necessarily at low risk, can be difficult"

--Dr. Stanley Clark, d/rector of electron beam tomography at Edward Heart Hospital and a member of Midwest Heart Specialists,