CDC/FDA Health Update About the Immediate Need for Healthcare Facilities to Review Procedures for Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilizing Reusable Medical Devices [October 2, 2015, 08:00 EST (08:00 AM EST)]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Description:
  October 2, 2015, 08:00 EST (08:00 AM EST)
  
  CDCHAN-00383
  
  As a follow-up to HAN 00382 (distributed September 11, 2015), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are providing this update to rescind the following recommendation: If healthcare facilities contract maintenance and repair of these devices to third-party vendors, healthcare facilities should verify that these vendors are approved or certified by the manufacturer to provide those services. We are making this change because there are currently no formal standardized programs or processes through which all manufacturers certify third-party vendors. We are also further clarifying that healthcare facilities which hire contractors to perform device reprocessing should verify that the contractor has an appropriate training program (i.e., consistent with what would be required in the healthcare facility) and that the training program includes the specific devices used by the healthcare facility.
  
  
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• Subjects:
  Cross Infection/prevention & Control Equipment And Supplies/Standards Equipment Contamination/prevention & Control Equipment Reuse/standards Equipment Safety Sterilization/Standards
• Keywords:
  HAN Health Alert Network
• Source:
  HAN ; 382
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Subseries:
  CDC Health Update
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Alert
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Pages in Document:
  4 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  00382
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
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