Tania Simmons
Healing For The Nations, LLC., USA
Title: Decreasing hospital waste in order to save money and redistribute medical supplies to help others
Biography
Biography: Tania Simmons
Abstract
Aim : This Quality Improvement Project objective is to introduce and assess a process change to potentially reduce costs in a hospital setting related to medical waste and repurpose medical supplies in order to help others in The United States of America as well as other nations.
Methods: The methods which are being used come from an approach to help foster collaboration amongst the neighboring hospitals and medical facilities to decrease medical supply waste and increase patient satisfaction as well as humanitarian relief efforts across the nation and into many developing countries by medical missions and aid.
Results: Eight different nations have been helped thru the use of repurposed medical supplies, which decrease medical waste and helped many people in the process. Communities have been helped and hospitals have seen collaboration with other medical institutions as well as humanitarian relief organizations to bringing about and sustaining real change which increase patient outcomes substantially.
Conclusion: Medical supply waste is in the top ten financial concerns for our industry when addressed real change can happen, aid to be brought to people in real need that otherwise would not get it. We can make this happen together – be the change.